Open source at the National Education Computing Conference
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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.
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| Mike Huffman, Indiana Department of Education Special Assistant
| for Technology, did a presentation on the state of Indiana's
| InACCESS project, the largest K-12 desktop Linux deployment in the
| United States. With 24,000 Linspire desktop computers built by
| Wintergreen Systems rolled out at various high schools, the program
| has already saved the state about US$1 million. The deployment, which
| started in 2005, will grow to 170,000 computers within a year and
| could potentially reach over 300,000 within several years.
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