NECC, the National Educational Computing Conference, is being held right now in San Diego. K12OS.org has bloggers on site recording the level of interest in open source among the teachers attending the event. In short, there is a great deal of interest!

Sessions on Free Software and Moodle have been packed to capacity. Public computers running K12LTSP have been in constant use, and over 15,000 educators are in attendance. Ubuntu shipped 2,000 giveaway CDs to the conference! And Nicholas Negroponte is there to discuss the $100 laptop project.

Author of the post, “pnelson” summarizes: “I’m not sure if the Linux world realizes that schools are ready for a change to free software.”

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