Conference Schedule

Complete session schedule should be available shortly. You can see the tentative list of sessions here.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
9:00 am - 2:30 pm School Visits
Click to SIGN-UP (limited space)
  This is recommended for teachers, tech directors and administrators.  Visits will allow you to see multiple classrooms using Open Source in 1:1 environments.  You will have opportunities to informally talk to the students, teachers and building leaders.  Each scheduled visit during the day will take about 90 minutes. Sign-ups are required if you want to participate.
9:00 am - 5:00 pm K-12 Roadmap Session on Large Scale Open Source Deployments
(By Invitation)
 

The K-12 Open Technologies Roadmap Roundtable is a small group of dedicated people from universities, school, private and public schools discussing how K-12 schools can easily and successfully implement Open Source Technologies into their schools.  The first Roundtable at last year's OMC features guests from five (5)  countries and schools from across the country. 

This year's group will focus on large scale deployments, the detailed agenda can be viewed here.
9:00 - 11:30 am &
1:00 - 3:30 pm		 Sponsor Focus Groups
(CONTACT to Arrange as Part of Sponsorship)
  Vendors meet with selected K-12 reps to hear feedback.  This session is for vendors to talk to schools about what seems to work, what is needed, and where software and product development should go from here. School practitioners will be available to talk about various Linux distributions and Open Source application programs. This 'focus group" activity should be of primary benefit to vendors
3:00 - 8:00 pm On-Site Registration
6:00 - 8:00 pm Opening Conference Reception
Snacks provided.  Open microphone and round-table discussions.

 

Friday, September 26, 2008
7:00 - 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 - 8:20 am Welcome
8:20 - 9:45 am Opening Speaker
10:00 - 11:00 am Concurrent Sessions A
11:15 am - 12:15 pm Concurrent Sessions B
12:15 - 1:45 pm Lunch  & Speaker
2:00 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions C
3:15 - 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions D
4:30 - 5:30 pm Round Table Discussions

 

Saturday, September 27, 2008
7:00 - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:15 - 9:30 am Speaker
9:45 - 10:45 am Concurrent Sessions E
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions F
12:15 - 1:00 pm Closing Session
  Small Interest groups will meet after the closing