Even if it took a bit of time, here are the slides of my last week presentation on the 10 common pitfalls on the road to Open Source in an organization.
Enjoy !
Tag - NECC09
Tuesday, July 7 2009
NECC 2009 - 10 common pitfalls on the road to Open Source in an organization
By Benoit St-Andre on Tuesday, July 7 2009, 08:21
Sunday, June 28 2009
Sneak peek at the Open Souce Lab in NECC
By Benoit St-Andre on Sunday, June 28 2009, 23:51
We just finished to setup the Open Source Thin Client Lab, and I can tell you it is beautiful, thanks to the wonderful machines of Asus, and the nice monitors that Michigan City Area Schools landed us.
We had many volunteers that helped us to put everything into place and have the perfect setup. Randy Orwin, Steve Hargadon and I would like to thank Kevin M, Mary, Paul, Kevin C, Mel, Mike L , Mike H, Lucie and her friend, Sugar Labs volunteers, and probably some other people that I don't remember theirs names.
So here is a sneak peek of what the lab looks like.
There is going to be a bunch of sessions going on there tomorrow. Come and meet us there if you are (well, sessions are full, but you could still enter if there is some space left 5 mins before the beginning of a session).
You also will want to see this if you still think that there is no multimedia and all this nice stuff on LTSP thin clients (there IS , even volunteers were surprised !).
You can also come and meet us at the Open Source Playground (and see the thin clients there too), just in front of room 152B (the Open Source Lab's room).
See you there tomorrow until Wednesday !
Friday, June 26 2009
NECC 2009 in Washington, we'll be there !
By Benoit St-Andre on Friday, June 26 2009, 10:32
Next week is the NECC 2009 annual conference, that will be held in Washington, DC from June 28th to July 1st.
I'll be there all week long, giving two sessions, which are
- Great Open Source Programs You Can Start Using Right Away
- 10 Common Pitfalls on the Road to Open Source
Those sessions are going to be held in the Open Source Lab.
We are providing the infrastructure to run the lab, which will be an LTSP-Cluster installation (like the ones we do for school boards and school districts), with 60 Eee Box Mini Desktop, gladly provided by Asus, that will run as thin clients.
I'm looking forward to meet a lot of people there, and discuss with.
There will also be a lot of volunteers helping us in the lab and the Open Source Playground, that will be just in front of the lab itself. I know that folks from the Ubuntu DC Loco , OpenSuSE, Fedora are supposed to be there.
I think all this will be very fun.
I'll try to post here, and also on Laconica/Twitter.