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Friday, February 26 2010

Pictures from SCALE8x Try-It Lab

By Benoit St-Andre on Friday, February 26 2010, 10:41

Thanks to folks from SCALE8x that did a tremendous job in making this conference possible. On our side, we tried to make the Try-It Lab as interesting as possible, showcasing LTSP-Cluster and its possibilities.

Here are a couple of pictures, taken by OSSIE Chairman Tim Fritchel, who was also responsible for the program in the lab (thanks Tim !). And as usual, thanks to our partner ASUS computers who makes this lab possible by providing the actual machines used as thin clients (as you can see in the pictures).

  • Try-It Lab, by Revolution Linux and ASUS !

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  • Empty Try-It Lab

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  • A packed room for my Open Source Social Networking Tools session

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  • Even more people, for my Desktop in the Cloud with LTSP-Cluster session !

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  • An EeeTop (all-in-one touchscreen) running as a Thin Client on LTSP-Cluster

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  • An EeePC Netbook, running as a Thin Client on LTSP-Cluster.

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Thanks everyone, we had a wonderful time there !

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Wednesday, January 6 2010

Come and meet us at FETC 2010 in Orlando - January 13-15 2010

By Benoit St-Andre on Wednesday, January 6 2010, 08:50

FETC is one of the largest educational technology conference in K-12 in the United States. We will be there next week for multiple sessions in the Open Source Center (room W313), where people will be able to experiment all sorts of Open Source applications running on LTSP-Cluster. This thin client environment will be using once again ASUS computers, that sponsors the Open Source Center together with us.

I will be presenting

I will certainly microblog about it during the event, using #fetc hashtag.

See you there !

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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.

Sneak peek at the Open Source Lab NECC09

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 !

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Monday, May 11 2009

LGM 2009 - Videos available

By Benoit St-Andre on Monday, May 11 2009, 09:53

You can find the videos of our three presentations following those three links:

Excellent work from River Valley TV for videos and slides integration by the way !

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Thursday, May 7 2009

LGM 2009 - Discussion about the Impacts of Design Decision on Software Usage and Adoption

By Benoit St-Andre on Thursday, May 7 2009, 17:31

Here is the talk I just did at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009.

Of course, these are just the slides. I'll update the blog post when we are going to have the recordings available.

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Wednesday, May 6 2009

LGM 2009 - LTSP and graphics applications

By Benoit St-Andre on Wednesday, May 6 2009, 15:40

Here is the presentation that Stéphane Graber and I did this morning in Libre Graphics Meeting 2009.

Good news is, just after the presentation, we had people coming up to us and see what we could to together to help graphics applications run better on thin clients.

More news to come up during the conference on this blog, if time permits to blog ! (we have to listen up too, you know ;-) )

UPDATE: You can see the video of the presentation here.

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Sunday, April 5 2009

Revolution Linux to participate at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009

By Benoit St-Andre on Sunday, April 5 2009, 09:51

We are proud to announce that Revolution Linux will participate at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009.

LGM 2009 will be held in Montreal, Quebec, from May 6th to May 9th.

LGM 2009 is the fourth annual worldwide meeting of teams developing open source graphics applications. Designers, graphic artists and anyone involved in print production and/or web development are cordially invited to attend and meet the developers one to one.

One of the main aspects of our participation will be the presence of Stéphane Graber, Ubuntu liaison at Revolution Linux, who is Ubuntu developer, MOTU and also maintainer of LTSP and LTSP-Cluster. We sure think that his presence will bring more of the spirit of collaboration and sharing that LGM is all about.

I will also be there, bringing my two cents about graphics applications integration into education. I'll try to bring up the user point of view, and share experiences we had with graphics applications in our large scale deployments of thin clients.

We submitted those 3 talks, that we hope are in line with the spirit of LGM :

See you in Montreal !

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Wednesday, March 11 2009

We are at CoSN 2009 - Austin, Texas

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).

Our booth (#505), with Alex Colcernian from DisklessWorkstations hiding behind a monitor

Email stations just in front of our booth, LTSP 1520 model on those on the right

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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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