[Scale-planning] Open Source in Education Track at SCALE 6x

[Phil Dibowitz]

Tim Frichtel wrote:
> Orv and I talked about possibly having a track dedicated to Open Source
> in Education at the next SCALE.
> 
> Here are some initial thoughts, I hope this isn't too long.

This sounds like it'd be a good mini-conference. It seems like it would be
very difficult to have this be a track. Lining up speakers for a theme is
traditionally difficult. You generally tend to get a bunch of speakers that
all talk about one piece of that theme, or you only get one speaker. It also
tends to off-balanace other tracks, and cause eh, track-starvation, for lack
of a better term.

Of course, I'm taking this from talks with the chair people over the last 5
years - I've never been the Speaker Chair.

However, if a small group of people were interested in this and got together
to make a mini-conference, it could be the day before (like 5x's
mini-conferences) and I think that could be very successful.

That said, I (no longer) speak authoritatively for SCALE - it's just my 2 cents.

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