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Sunday, June 28 2009

Sneak peek at the Open Souce Lab in NECC

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 !

Wednesday, March 11 2009

We are at CoSN 2009 - Austin, Texas

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

Tuesday, October 28 2008

T + L 2008 : Thin Client Lab Success

partner5-2008_T_L_Logo.JPGFirst participation at T+L. Revolution Linux provided the application server for a thin-client lab which was used during the whole conference. This post describes how the lab was installed...

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