<html><head></head><body><div>Happy New (School) Year Everybody,</div><div><br></div><div>Just a quick note to welcome everyone back. I am very pleased to see all of our existing programs are returning, and few are scheduled to start up, and in addition, we also have a few schools that expressed interest. I've invited them to the list, so if anyone reaches out, please feel free to jump in with any advice you may have.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, please feel free to reach out to me with anything you may need as your programs kick off.</div><div><br></div><div>We had a nice article in Opensource.com about the FLOSS Desktops program: <a href="https://opensource.com/article/17/9/floss-desktops-kids">https://opensource.com/article/17/9/floss-desktops-kids</a> You may want to share this with your school's administrators as it highlights the alignment between FLOSS Desktops and other programs you may already be running in your district related to coding.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, I am happy to share that Michele McColgan, Madie Hagen, and Kris Navritil will be presenting the FLOSS Desktops program at "All Things Open" at the end of the month (<a href="https://allthingsopen.org/talk/floss-desktops-for-kids/">https://allthingsopen.org/talk/floss-desktops-for-kids/</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>OK, that's it for now,</div><div>Patrick</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div> || | | |||| || || | |||| ||| | ||| </div><div>Patrick Masson</div><div>General Manager & Director</div><div>Open Source Initiative</div><div>855 El Camino Real, Ste 13A, #270</div><div>Palo Alto, CA 94301</div><div>United States</div><div>OSI Phone: (415) 857-5398</div><div>Direct Phone: (970) 4MASSON</div><div>Freenode: OSIMasson</div><div>Skype: massonpj</div><div>Em: <a href="mailto:masson@opensource.org">masson@opensource.org</a></div><div>Ws: <a href="www.opensource.org">www.opensource.org</a></div></span></div></body></html>