02/07/2007

At the first official meeting of the Strategic Open Source Special Interest Group (SOS-SIG - http://sos.tcea.org/) I was elected president. The group is a part of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA - http://www.tcea.org/), one of the largest state computer groups.

OK - so it wasn't the US presidential election. One year ago at the TCEA annual convention a group of us got together and founded a group to promote alternate solutions. It was our idea that sometimes the best solution to an educational problem was missed because organizations only looked at software that ran on their main type of network operating system. The SOS-SIG is all about finding solutions to educational problems using Open Source technologies.

The SOS-SIG is also about enlisting knowledgable people to help support these solutions. We are hoping to help a large number of schools find cost effective solutions to common and uncommon technology related problems.

So - if you have ideas or resources, let me know.

Dirk D Dykstra