Thanks Alan This is the exhibition that I'm talking about. I'm not sure if my messages are going through ubuntu-marketing list because I'm not receiving them (even if I choose to DON'T avoid duplicate messages).
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 18:45 +0100, Alan Lord wrote: > John Botscharow wrote: > > Is there anyone in London who could easily make thie conference? I > > cannot phyiscally or financially make this trip, but if someone could go > > and take notes, I'd be willing to work on a project based on those notes > > to work out an educationally-orented marketing strategy. The education > > market may very well be our best opportunity to start seriously cutting > > into MS marketing share worldwide. Educators are more open-minded than > > other market segments and less susceptible to MS's bullying tactics. > > > > In January each year there is an IT/Technology exhibition in London > called BETT: http://www.bettshow.com/ > > We attended this last year with our friends at the OFE > (http://osacademy.hosting.amaze.nl:8060/OFE) and we had quite an impact! > We managed to obtain several OLPCs which went down storm and captured > the imagination of many teachers and IT support staff. We will be back > again this coming year Jan 2009 with 2x the stand space we had last > year. There is growing interest and demand for knowledge in the > education sector especially in the past year or so since Becta have > started to be so supportive of Open Source and derogatory towards M$ in > particular. > > I'm not sure if the conference you are referring to is the same or not, > but as we are only 30miles or so from London it isn't much of an issue > getting in. > > What is it, when is it and how long is it on for?? > > Cheers > > Alan > My company supplies professional services around OSS: > http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com > > > -- > The way out is open! > http://www.theopensourcerer.com > > -- ================================== # [Tiago Vieira - United Kigdom] # #tvieira on irc.freenode.net # #tvieira_at_jabber.org on Jabber # #email: tvieira79_at_gmail.com # #blog: http://blog.tvieira.com # ================================== -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
