Busy time of the year !
Last week, I was at CUE 2009, a conference in California with mainly teachers focusing on technology integration into learning. This week, another part of our team (Benoît des Ligneris and Patrice Albaret) is at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) annual K12 conference, in Austin Texas, from March 10th to 12th.
We are repeating our setup with K12OpenSource.com (thanks to Steve Hargadon again !), as we are responsible for setting up email stations around the place with our LTSP-cluster setup. This time we are quite lucky to have on board with us the people of DisklessWorkstations, that provided us thin clients that you can see on their website. We are particularly excited by the possibilities that their brand new LTSP Term 1520, Intel Atom based thin client, enables for Linux thin client solution. Smooth video, 3D acceleration, running local software like Skype and Celestia, all sorts of things that everybody was telling that "was not working on thin clients". It's still pre-production, but results are encouraging !
We also thank a lot Michigan City Area Schools, that were able to provide monitors for the duration of the conference.
We also have a booth (#505 if you are passing by), where we are showing to school district people all the possibilities that Open Source has in their infrastructure and as a way to raise access to technology in the classroom, and enable real scalable 1-to-1 infrastructure for students.
Picture time ! Have a good show guys ! (thanks to Benoît des Ligneris for the picture).
