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Ubuntu Education Summit : UES 2007 Sevilla

• When

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

• Where

  • [http://www.hoteles-silken.com/sevilla_alandalus_home/5/Hotel Silken Al-Andalus Palace]

  • Sevilla, Andelucia, Spain

• Event Summary

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

• Event 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

  • Richard Weideman
  • Education Programme Manager

  • richard@ubuntu.com

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
  • discuss training and support options

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
  • investigate 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

Conference Format

We will include:

• Presentations on Success Stories, Challenges, and Experiences with Open Source in Education
• Birds of a Feather round table discussions (BOFs)
  • Technical Topics
  • Community Topics
  • Deployment, Administration and Management Topics
  • Feature Discussions
• Hands-on sessions, in the form of participatory demo's and tutorials

Final Programme

Details of the final programme will be published on this page as we receive submissions and confirmations.

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:

  • [mailto:richard@ubuntu.com Richard] with the subject: UES 2007 Presentation

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"

  • [mailto:richard@ubuntu.com Richard] with the subject: UES 2007 Lightning Talk

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:

  • [mailto:richard@ubuntu.com Richard] with the subject: UES 2007 Discussion Topic

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:

  • [mailto:richard@ubuntu.com Richard] with the subject: UES 2007 Product / Application / Tool

Deadline for all outlines & requests

• Monday, April 2

Deadline for all completed submissions

• Monday, April 15

Follow On Events

Ubucon - Sevilla

• 5 May 2007
• Sevilla, Spain
• A one day community-led and community focused event. This is the Ubuntu community at its best. Come listen, learn, contribute, and share your Ubuntu experiences at this uniquely Ubuntu unconference!

• http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuconSevilla

Ubuntu Developers Summit - UDS 2007

• 6-11 May 2007
• Sevilla, Spain
• A technical, hands on gathering to define the features and technical approach for the next version of Ubuntu (version 7.10, due in Oct 2007). Intended audience is development contributors to Ubuntu

• http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Sevilla

Ubuntu Live

• 22-24 July 2007
• Portland, Oregon

• Ubuntu Live will gather IT professionals, government and business leaders, educators, community leaders, and enterprise users. Call for participation closes 14 Feb - submit your proposal now!

• http://www.ubuntulive.com

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