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Friday, February 26 2010

The Open Source Pavilion at CUE 2010 - March 4th to March 6th 2010

By Benoit St-Andre on Friday, February 26 2010, 10:14

Once again , we will be at CUE Conference in Palm Springs this year. Last year was a success, I sure this year will be even better !

New things

Since CUE provides a handy schedule planner this year, I am going to do a couple of quick links here to this schedule. If you are attending CUE, you should at least take a look. Choosing sessions is quite easier with this tool.

A couple of new things this year

  • Like our other latest shows, we have the privilege to partner with ASUS computers. They provide us with all the EeeTop , EeeBox and EeePC that will be use as thin clients during CUE, for hands-on session and evaluations.
  • Opening hours of the Open Source Pavilion are extended.
  • The Pavilion will be in a room of its own, Oasis 4 - check the schedule of the Pavilion.; The evaluation survey will also be filled there in a space contiguous to the lab.

Our sessions

I will give three exciting sessions at CUE this year. You can see these sessions in the planner itself, but let me list them for you right here:

There is limited space in the lab, so be there early.

Come and meet us in Oasis 4 whenever you have a chance, and you will actually see physically what Open Source Thin Clients with LTSP and LTSP-Cluster look like.

See you there.

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Monday, March 9 2009

CUE 2009: great experience !

By Benoit St-Andre on Monday, March 9 2009, 16:19

Last week, I was at CUE 2009 conference in Palm Springs, California. That was a lot of fun !

Steve Hargadon and I, as part of K12OpenSource.com, did a great setup of thin clients that were used both for email stations, filling up the survey and also as a lab for presentations for the conference. All of this was called the "Open Source Pavilion". We also had the help of Judith Beaudoin as a volunteer to help us do the setup (and the much appreciated remote help from Stéphane Graber).

You can see on this picture people filling up the survey for the conference. CUE had this great idea of giving a t-shirt to people who fill up the survey, this is a great incentive to do so and a trick to keep for other conferences. Thin clients as Email Stations

I also gave two talks in the Open Source Pavilion

  • 10 Common pitfalls on the road to Open Source
  • Large scale Open Source infrastructure and thin clients.

Here is a picture of the pavilion, with people looking at Ubuntu and various applications available on our thin clients using LTSP-Cluster, between 2 presentations.

Open Source pavilion's lab

Following these talks time I spent at the Open Source, I had the chance to meet a lot of teachers and IT people from various areas of California and United States. A lot of people almost jumped on us to have our list of "Top 10 Open Source software in Education". By popular demand, you can download it right here. If I have had a thousand copies of it, I'm sure I would have gave them all !

I'm sure that this was just a first time and that we will be back at CUE next year.

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