A recent email from Open Forum Europe draws attention to the large number of open source products and services featuring in this year's BETT education technology exhibition, at Kensington Olympia, 14-17th October. Together with The Open Learning Centre, Open Forum Europe are providing the 'Open Source Precinct' on stand SW104 at BETT, showcasing a number of projects, including:

• Ubuntu CDs
• Elgg spaces - hosted social networking
• Linux based edcuational laptops and netbooks, including OLPC, Asus and Classmate
• OpenOffice.org information and its own ECLD on-line training room
• INGOTS, International Grades in Open Technologies
• And, of course, Moodle, the leading open source virtual learning environment.

Elsewhere at BETT:

• Equiinet  on E85 Equiinet uses Linux and Moodle and specialises in caching and content delivery, data backup, eLearning platforms and eSafety.
• Zimbra on S46 a Yahoo! company, is the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software.
• Moodle – Synergy Learning, N2, are official moodle.com partners offering hosting, consultancy and training. Moodle hosting is also on offer from Synetrix (K10) and nlearning (G125), and
• Sirius  D151, offering OSS solutions in the Becta Software Licensing Framework
• European Electronique D85 offering OSS (and MS) solutions for schools
• FutureLab – have a paper on FLOSS, as well as publications exploring innovation and social technology in education
• Intel – with Classmate and Ubuntu

Don't forget there's also the Open Source Schools own team presentation at 10:45 in the Club Room on Saturday