Free Edem 2004 Projects And Speakers

Suggested themes and speakers

Please add your name and coordinate, aka, inform, with npettiaux-freeedem@ael.be. Please add ideas about people / projects we may invite. All suggested speakers so far have agreed to speak (if not come as Mitch Kapor)

1. Plone by Alexandre Limi, one of the main authors of Plone, a full featured CMS http://www.plone.org, Contacted by BenjaminHenrion. (Interested, follow up by NicolasPettiaux)

2. Team working for Free Software development by Paul Everitt, the founder of Zope and now director of Zope-Europe; one leader about the use of "sprints" (aka extreme programming sessions) for Free Software development (Interested, follow up by NicolasPettiaux)

Interested speakers (a formal confirmation is necessary, but every speaker said they would come)

1. Project Mutualibre (http://www.mutualibre.org) (William Famy or Gérard Blanchet): the Mutualibre project consist in the mutualisation of resources towards the developpement of free software tools in French education; (fr)

2. A free software for education European Project by François Désarménien, Director of Sil-Cetril. François will describe a European project SIL is setting up to help with the developpement of free software tools to be supported by the European Commission (fr)

3. Installation de solutions libres pour les écoles et lycées de l'Académie d'Orléans-Tours par Claude Sullerot

4. MutualR by Stéphane Gautier: a project using templates to help with the configuration of a large infrastructure of school equipments, used in the Académie d'Orléans-Tours in France (fr) (based on plain Debian Woody, actively using LDAP)

5. Migration du lycée Pasquet aux logiciels libres par William Famy

6. Le serveur SLAES pour l'éducation par Gérard Blanchet

7. Project Gutenberg by MichaelHart "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com and Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org>. Most probably, MichaelHart will make the introductory keynote on Saturday 21 February at 10 am.

8. Dokeos by Thomas De Praetere, leader of Dokeos, ex-Claroline, a e-learning solution used in many universities in Belgium,

9. SkoleLinux by Markus Gamenius, chairman for Linux i Skolen (Linux in the School)/Skolelinux. SkoleLinux is now also DebianEdu, the official Debian distribution for schools with X-terminals management; (Interested, follow up by NicolasPettiaux)

10. Freeduc-cd by Hilaire Fernandes, OFSET president, author of Freeduc-Cd,

11. Mitch Kapor, historical developer of Lotus 1-2-3, now leader of the Chandler project, a PIM that will be especially adapted to meet the needs of Universities (Mitch cannot come in 2004 but plans to come in 2005, and will send us a recorded keynote; follow up by NicolasPettiaux)

12. Free software applications for the science by GeorgesKhaznadar of OFSET

13. Rudy Gevaert <rudy@gnu.org> and Geert Vernaeve would surely be able to give a little talk (Max 30 minutes) about GLMS (http://www.nongnu.org/glms). GLMS a project to write manuals about using GNU/Linux in schools. The manual consists of three parts: a global introduction to GNU/Linux, setting up a stand alone GNU/Linux computer and setting up a GNU/Linux server. WhatAreWeGoingToTalkAbout (Interested, follow up by NicolasPettiaux)

14. Plume and X terminals as educational infrastructure by Jérôme Warnier. Plume is a free, clean and lean X-terminals system based on Debian.

15. Project Schooltool (http://www.schooltool.org) by SteveAlexander. SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence. Our vision is to create a platform that is equally compelling for schools and colleges in First and Third World countries, that supports best practices in school administration and which is readily customised to comply with local regulatory requirements. A specific developpement session ( sprint) will be organized after FreeEDEM on the dates Monday 23 Feb => Wednesday 25 Feb or Thursday 26 Feb 2004, in Brussels too)

16. LPI certification by Glenn Mcknight, a LPI employee and AlexisGilliot (en). The LPI exam lab is detailed here

17. Gcompris, logiciel pour les enfants de 4 à 12 ans par Bruno Coudoin

18. The Andria Project (http://www.freearchive.org/) protecting the digital free heritage and free licences.

19. Project Guido van Robot (http://gvr.sourceforge.net) (StasZytkiewicz) WhatIsGvR

20. Silva, a content management system used in many universities by Kit Blake from Infrae, http://infrae.com

21. How to save quite a lot in school management by simple tricks by XavierHeymans