May 28 - AGM + Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) & K12LTSP
VanLUG Annual General Meeting (AGM)
The meeting will begin with the VanLUG Annual General Meeting (AGM), during which we will elect the Board for the coming year and review the groups finances. We are actively looking for interested people to join the VanLUG board. If you are interested in running for the board and/or volunteering to help improve the group we would greatly appreciate hearing from you prior to the meeting. You do not need to be a Linux guru to become involved. Please contact us if you would like to get involved.
Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) & K12LTSP
The AGM will be followed by a presentation by Robert Arkiletian, a computer science and physics teacher at Eric Hamber Secondary, who will be presenting on the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) and its education oriented variant K12LTSP. The following is an outline of the presentation provided by Robert:
Linux Thin Client Technology
- Linux Terminal Server Project
- How LTSP works
- Current State
- Scalability
- Security
- System requirements
- Hardware
- Fl_TeacherTool thin client manager
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- LTSP 5 and the future
- An LTSP variation: Diskless clients
More details are available at http://robark.googlepages.com/vanlugmay28th2007
About our presenter:
Robert Arkiletian teaches computer programming and physics at Eric Hamber Secondary in Vancouver. He has been using K12LTSP in his lab for 3 years. Robert released the first version of Fl_TeacherTool in 2005. He started BCFOSSS (British Columbia Free Open Source Software in Schools) list this year. He also has an online tutorial for FL_TeacherTool.