Open source at the National Education Computing Conference

Posted by dcparris on Jul 27, 2006 3:22 PM EDT
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Open source software made a big showing earlier this month at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in San Diego. Presentations were made on a variety of open source topics including advocacy, programming, deployment, and education software. [...] Huffman comments that the "time needed for a Windows-using high school student to acclimate him or herself to the Linux desktop [is] 10 minutes."

[Based on my experience during a recent family reunion, I would say that is highly accurate. - dcparris]

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