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Tuesday, June 28 2011
By Patrice Albaret on Tuesday, June 28 2011, 20:00
Revolution Linux continues to grow ! Our headquarters were moved to a larger and more spacious building to accomodate our growing teams !
The new headquarters address in Sherbrooke, QC : 2171 King West - Office 2 Sherbrooke (Quebec) J1J 2G1 CANADA
Take a look at our new premises in the pictures below, and feel free to take a leap if you are nearby !
The Revolution Linux team
Wednesday, March 11 2009
By Benoit St-Andre on Wednesday, March 11 2009, 20:36
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).
Monday, March 9 2009
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.
I also gave two talks in the Open Source Pavilion
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 29 2008
By Benoit St-Andre on Tuesday, April 29 2008, 12:44
As you might know, a great part of the business we do at Revolution Linux takes part in French, since the main language spoken in Quebec at home, in businesses and in everyday life is French.
Nevertheless, we are starting to have more and more clients that communicates with us in English, We are having some mandates in Ontario and in the United States, so having more and more English resources are becoming a necessity.
This is why we are starting our brand new Revolution Linux's blog in English. You will find here different posts about free and Open Source Software, education, technology, and other topics. Sometimes, posts that we put here will also appear in French in our French blog (http://blog.revolutionlinux.com), sometimes not. It's not because you don't understand French that you don't deserve original content ! :-)
Welcome to our blog !
