UES-Sevilla

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Clear message

Ubuntu Education Summit : UES 2007 Sevilla

  • When

    • 3 May 2007 : Thursday
    • 4 May 2007 : Friday

  • Where

  • Event Summary

    • The Ubuntu Education Summit will discuss issues which impact users or stakeholders of Ubuntu products in the Education sector.

  • Target Audience

    • The target audience covers educators, decision-makers, government, developers, community managers and anyone with an interest in the deployment of Ubuntu/Edubuntu/Kubuntu or related open source platforms in education settings.

  • Event Contact

Ubuntu Education Summit: Overview

We will bring together significant education users and stakeholders who:

  • currently make use of Ubuntu software under various academic and education support scenarios and who wish to use the conference to:

    • present success stories and share learning experiences with others
    • share deployment and usage issues around open source software in education
    • meet with other users or stakeholders and strengthen our communities
    • influence our future product features and directions

or'

  • are planning to adopt Ubuntu software as their platform of choice in education projects or institutions and who wish to:

    • discuss issues affecting their decision to move onto open source software
    • network with existing open source users or stakeholders to guide deployment plans
    • discuss training and support options

or

  • are involved with open source software and education regardless of the distribution of choice who wish to:

    • network with our organisation and users
    • broaden and strengthen the various communities sharing a common vision for open source software in education

Streams / Tracks

We are fleshing out a programme around two tracks:

  • TRACK 1 : Above the Desktop

    • Target: educators and decision makers

      • Education Tools
      • Education Applications
      • Education Content
      • School Administration Tools
      • Open Source in Education issues
      • Migrating from Proprietary Software to an Open Source Environment
      • Support and Training
      • Ubuntu and Open Source Communities

  • TRACK 2 : Below the Desktop

    • Target: developers and technical audience

      • Technical tracks relating to Edubuntu or the core Ubuntu operating system
      • Future feature discussions
      • Collaboration between Ubuntu and other developers
        • Applications
        • Tools
        • Ubuntu variants

We will include:

  • Presentations on success stories
  • Birds of a Feather round table discussions (BOFs)
  • Hands-on sessions, in the form of participatory demo's and tutorials

Calls for Papers or Presentations or Discussion Topics

As with our development philisophy whereby Ubuntu is driven to a large extent by our user community, we want to strongly encourage attendees to the Education Summit to contribute to the programme and discussion agenda.

Presentations

  • If you would like to deliver a 30 minute presentation on your experiences or challenges with Ubuntu or other related open source software in education scenarios, please email a short abstract to:

Lightning Talk

  • If you would like to deliver a 5 minute lightning talk related to open source in education, please email a short abstract to"

Discussion Topics

  • If you would like to suggest a discussion topic for a Birds of a Feather session, please email a short topic outline to:

Product / Application / Tool

  • If you would like to present your open source product, application, or tool to the audience, please email a short outline to:

Comments and Suggestions

Comments and suggestions are welcomed, both from within the Ubuntu community, as well as from other interested parties.

[mailto:richard@ubuntu.com Richard Weideman] Ubuntu Education Programme Manager