List of FLOSS/FOSS and Education Conferences where Ubuntu in Education might want to present/exhibit.


||'''Conference Name'''|| '''Link to Site''' || '''Audience''' || ''' Attendance #s ''' || ''' Date/Location ''' || '''Recommended Approach/Notes''' ||
|| EDUCAUSE || http://www.educause.edu/E2010 || Higher Ed/University decision makers || 3500 attendees/over 200 exhibitors || Oct. 12 - 15 Anaheim, CA/Oct. 13 - 15 online ||  The conference for University CIOs and IT Leaders ||
|| OLE - Open Learning Exchange || http://2010assembly.ole.org/ || Open Learning for Africa  ||"a social benefit organization committed to achieving Quality Universal Basic Education by 2015" ||Oct. 11 - 15, 2010 Rwanda  ||  ?? ||
||FIE - Frontiers in Education || http://fie-conference.org/fie2010/ || "Frontiers in Education is the premier conference for educational innovation and research in engineering and computing." || ?? || October 27 - 30, Arlington, VA||  Researchers in Technology in Education ||
|| Open Source world Conference || http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/malaga10/?q=en || IT & Education professionals ||  8000 || Oct. 27- 28, Malaga, Spain || "The Open Source World Conference (OSWC) is probably the most important European event related to open source technologies" ||
||OpenEd||http://openedconference.org/2010/ || Open Educators || ?? || Nov. 2 - 4, 2010  Barcelona, Spain || ?? ||
|| Mozilla Drumbeat Festival || http://www.drumbeat.org/festival || "Mozilla's 2010 Drumbeat Festival will gather teachers, learners and technologists from around the world who are at the heart of this revolution" ||?? || Nov. 3 - 5, 2010 Barcelona, Spain ||  Limited # of travel scholarships available||
|| Big Ideas Fest || http://www.bigideasfest.org/2010 || TED like event for education visionaries || hundreds, sponsored by ISKME.org || Dec. 5 - 8, 2010, Half Moon Bay, CA || Greg deKoenigsberg, former RHer and Teaching Open Source group sent this out to the TOS list ||
|| ISTE || http://www.isteconference.org/2011/ || Technology Educators & innovators || several thousand || June 27 - 30, 2011, Philadelphia || Well known international organisation and conference.  Participation call open 9/15/2010 and closes 10/13/2010 ||
|| MassCUE || http://www.masscue.org || Technology Educators and Superintendents || ~1200 || October 27 -28, 2010, Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA || Massachusetts Computer Using Educators and Mass Supts. Co-sponsors ||
|| TCEA || http://www.tcea2011.org/ || Texas Computer Educators, all levels teachers, IT, CIO, Administrators || 10,000 || Feb 7 - 11, 2011, Austin, TX || TX Loco can help staff a table/booth ||
||POSSCON || http://posscon.org/ || General Linux IT audience || hundreds? || March 23 - 25, 2010 || Loco Team booth/table?||
|| NCCE || http://www.ncce.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1135&Itemid=302 || NW K12 Teachers and Administrators || ~2,000(?) || Portland, OR. March 1-4, 2011 || They already tend to have an open source stream. ||

Past Conferences

||'''Conference Name'''|| '''Link to Site''' || '''Audience''' || '''Attendance #s''' || '''Date/Location''' || '''Recommended Approach/Notes''' ||
||FOSSED|| http://www.fossed.com/ || K-12 Educators || 300? || July 7- 9, 2010 || Formerly the NE Linux Fest ||