Vancouver Linux Users Group

Robert Arkiletian has been a teacher for 12 years and is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable GNU/Linux experts working for the Vancouver School Board, frequently sharing his experience to mentor
other teachers.

Robert teaches physics, C++, Python and FLTK GUI programming at Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver. In 2004, Robert began using K12LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project version of GNU/Linux, in a computer lab he set up and maintains for his students.

He created the British Columbia Free and Open Source Software in Schools newsgroup to promote the use of GNU/Linux in British Columbia Schools, and for the past two years his computer programming students have earned top honours in Western Canada. Robert is married and has two young children.

In 2005 Robert released the first version of a classroom management program. FL_TeacherTool is written in C++ for K12LTSP GNU/Linux, and allows a teacher to broadcast demonstrations to student computers and