I will be giving a presentation at the 2009 Vermont Open Source and Education Conference in Fairlee, Vermont USA titled "OpenOffice.org in an Educational Environment". This annual conference will be held on Friday, April 10 and is co-sponsored by the National Center for Open Source and Education (NCOSE) and the Vermont Information Technology Association.

My presentation will specifically be of interest to educators and school IT staff interested in using OpenOffice.org for instructional purposes. Topics will include an overview of the various applications bundled into the office suite, licensing related to distributing software to students and other users, cross-platform capabilities with various operating systems, file exchange with other office productivity suites, deploying OpenOffice.org in an academic lab and staff work environment, special considerations to assess before deploying OpenOffice.org on a large-scale, and more.

For more information about the conference, including registration details, visit the NCOSE website at http://www.ncose.org/node/47.