planning




 * Most Important Points**
 * Marketing - no sales and support. Lead with practical, then "free" aspects.
 * Educate community OSS
 * Teaching + Learning
 * Student Involvement
 * Need for support communities
 * - For future
 * - Cultural
 * Thin-client as a concept
 * Teachers want practical
 * Non-intrusive technologies most likely to be adopted.
 * Solution needs to be transparent – interactive with other software
 * - Need to be open / persuasive about the maintenance / support costs that will come.
 * - Can use Windows within that environment
 * Push software developers to run on Linux/Web
 * Support for Open Standards
 * Model for classroom use
 * Teach/Train on licenses and Creative Commons
 * Teachers want practical
 * Not-displacing (non-intrusive) technologies
 * Lead with the practical

/* ss What do we want to do in the next two hours? Vendors chose not to engage here. (Were they invited?) So where do they fit? Can we draw a conclusion from their non-presence? Vendors still think that they are in charge, which is the old model. Business models don’t seem to include K-12 clients.