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Christophe Villemer Appointed to The Board of Directors of UQÀM
Montréal, February 8, 2012 - The Rector of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) announced yesterday that the Government of Quebec has appointed Christophe Villemer to its Board of Directors along with Mrs. Lise Bissonnette , an author who has been CEO of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and former director of the independent Montreal daily newspaper, Le Devoir .
"These people stand out due to the richness of their experience... Savoir-faire Linux kicks off the Liferay Montreal User Group
Montréal, February 5, 2013 - Mark your calendars! The first meetup of the brand new Liferay Montreal User Group will take place on February 13, 2013, at the Savoir-faire Linux Montreal office . Led by our staff members Sven Werlen , Vice-president, Enterprise Solutions, and Sevan Hanssian , Free Software consultant, this group aims to develop expertise in Quebec wth the Liferay open source web portal content management technology written in Java... Savoir-faire Linux is committed to continuing education and the integration of foreign-trained professionals
Ceremony of the Investissement-Compétences certificates of commitment (14-12-2012). Photo : Gunther Gamper
Montreal, January 3, 2013 - By the end of 2012, at Savoir-faire Linux, there were exactly 20 different nationalities. In an environment where computer skills are scarce, cultural diversity has never been perceived as a handicap, but rather as an asset that must simply be managed on a daily basis. The solution lies in openness, integration and rapid... Sprint Québec : un nouveau site d'événement sportif réalisé par SFL|L3i
Québec, le 8 décembre 2012 - Le site web de Sprint Québec était achalandé, en fin de semaine, alors que le Coupe du monde de ski de fond battait son plein, en pleine ville, sur la Colline parlementaire de la Vieille Capitale! Anick Tardif, chef de projet web et directrice du bureau de Québec de Savoir-faire Linux depuis avril dernier , nous parle de ce nouveau projet réalisé pour l'agence de gestion d'évènements Gestev , avec qui elle collabore depuis des années. Le site est... First OpenERP Montréal Meetup at Savoir-faire Linux
Montreal, September 24 2012 - Mark your calendars! The first OpenERP Montreal Meetup is scheduled for October 10th . Savoir-faire Linux has taken the initiative to launch this monthly community of practice to allow Quebec businesses to discover the tremendous potential of OpenERP , and to share their needs, knowledge and projects in an open group, on an informal but regular basis.
In summary, OpenERP is an open and free software suite of integrated business management. It... Exclusive Lunch Seminar on Red Hat Virtualization (RHEV) in Montreal
Montréal, September 11, 2012 - Savoir-faire Linux is pleased to invite you to the Red Hat Virtualization Seminar that we organize with Red Hat on September 18th at CRIM Montreal. As noted by IDC cloud and virtualization analyst Gary Chen , " RHEV 3.0 represents a significant step forward for the readiness of KVM within the enterprise, and should be considered as a viable virtualization alternative to more widely used products from companies such as VMware and Microsoft ... Why should you participate in the Liferay North America Symposium?
Montréal, September 7, 2012 - Over the years, Liferay has become the Web portal platform of choice for over half a million organizations of all types from around the world. This open platform now has a vast community of integrators, partners, extension developers and clients who gather on a regular basis on several continents to share ideas, projects and case studies. As a matter of fact, the Liferay North America Symposium will be held this year in San Francisco on October 8 and... Savoir-faire Linux au camp d'été McGill en sciences informatiques #VIDÉO
Montréal, 12 juillet 2012 - Le camp d'été McGill en sciences informatiques accueille chaque année un contingent de jeunes du secondaire intéressés par les métiers de l'informatique. Aujourd'hui, Alexandre Bourget , évangéliste des standards du Web chez Savoir-faire Linux , y présentait les principes et avantages de l'informatique libre en compagnie de sa collègue Sevan Hanssian, ancienne étudiante et bénévole au camp. Selon Joseph Vybihal , chargé de cours au département de... First Liferay Roadshow Seminar in Montreal
Montreal, June 28, 2012 - Liferay and Savoir-faire Linux presented last May the first Liferay Roadshow given in Montreal. About 50 Savoir-faire Linux partners and clients attended the event held at CRIM Montreal in order to discover the new features of Liferay Portal 6.1. Duration: 1 hour . Licence: Creative Commons BY . About... Savoir-faire Linux acquiert L3Interactive et renforce son leadership au Québec
Montréal, le 9 mai 2012 - L'entreprise Savoir-faire Linux, dont le siège est à Montréal, annonce l'acquisition de L3Interactive, une entreprise de Québec spécialisée dans le développement web en logiciel libre et conforte ainsi sa place de leader dans le domaine du service-conseil en logiciels libres avec près de 60 spécialistes à l'échelle de la province de Québec. Fondée en 2004, L3interactive est une entreprise spécialisée dans le développement de solutions web ergonomiques basées sur... Savoir-faire Linux présente le Portail Liferay à Québec le 22 mars
Québec, le 16 mars 2011 - Savoir-faire Linux donne, le jeudi 22 mars à 9h, une présentation intitulée Le portail Liferay 6.1 : une porte d'entrée moderne à l'ensemble de vos ressources informationnelles . D'une durée de 2h30, cette présentation gratuite aura lieu à la vitrine technologique du Centre de services partagés du Québec. Obtenir plus d'information sur l'événement ... Victoire au IronWeb du Web à Québec 2012
Québec, le 29 février 2012 - Du 22 au 24 février dernier, Savoir-faire Linux participait au IronWeb, une compétition de développement web applicatif organisée par le Web à Québec. Nous tenons à féliciter Alexandre Bourget, notre développeur web en chef, ainsi son équipe (les jaunes) pour leur victoire éclatante ! Quebouge.com , développé à partir de données ouvertes de la ville de Québec, leur a assuré la victoire, après 48 heures de sueur et d'émotion. Cloisonnés dans un petit espace... Savoir-faire Linux is hiring 15 specialists in free software!
Montréal, January 24, 2012 - Savoir-faire Linux search for permanent positions - master level or equivalent: Project Manager / Senior Account Manager Developers / Integrators Web Java/JEE, senior and middle Python Web Developers Graphic Designer / User Experience Designer Developers for Embedded Systems and/or Android. Infrastructure architects and administrators GNU/Linux Exciting projects, good conditions, exceptional team. To apply and learn more about our offerings,... Savoir-faire Linux presents his review of 2011
January 2012 - With the great success that was the year 2011, the whole Savoir-faire Linux team is ready to assist you in your IT projects in 2012! We wish you a new year filled with success and software freedom! As a believer in web standards, it is with pleasure that Savoir-faire Linux presents the highlights of 2011 using HTML5. View the year highlights . SFL at Webcom Montreal 2011
Montréal, November 16, 2011 - Savoir-faire Linux involved in the Webcom Montreal which takes place today to OACI , downtown Montreal.
Cyrille Béraud, president of Savoir-faire Linux, is a guest panelist at the 11 h 40 discussion entitled OpenGov: Are free software and collaboration compatible with information security ? This talk exhibits concretely what can be the shift toward open government where the citizen is at the heart of public decisions. We... Savoir-faire Linux, proud partner of Salon BI
Montréal, November 7, 2011 - Savoir-faire Linux is proud to partner with the sixth edition of Salon BI and invites you to register for this unique event that takes place in Montreal at the Palais des Congrès, on 8 November and brings together all those related to business intelligence! Come "unmask" open source BI solution s Under the theme of the Exhibition "new faces", Savoir-faire Linux offers you to come to his booth... SFL présent à la Journée des acquisitions et des TIC à Québec le 27 octobre
Québec, le 26 octobre 2011 - Savoir-faire Linux tient un kiosque à la Journée des acquisitions et des TIC qui se déroule le jeudi 27 octobre à Québec. Christophe Villemer, vice-président exécutif, explique pourquoi il serait intéressant pour les responsables informatiques du gouvernement de passer rencontrer l'équipe de SFL sur place : « L'arrivée de la Loi C-133 implique pour les directeurs informatiques de l'État québécois de regarder avec plus d'attention encore, l'ensemble... Savoir-faire Linux at the Red Hat Partner Conference in Miami from October 25 to 27
Savoir-faire Linux was invited by Red Hat to join its North American annual partner meeting from October 25 to 27 in Miami. Christophe Villemer, executive vice president, explains his presence on site: "This is an opportunity for Savoir-faire Linux to strengthen its partnership with Red Hat and implement its development strategies for 2012. Red Hat has established itself as a natural choice for any large organization and its virtualization offering is... Savoir-faire Linux is at the Liferay West-Coast Symposium 2011, in Anaheim
Savoir-faire Linux, a Liferay "Silver Service Partner", is at the West Coast Symposium currently taking place in Anaheim, California (September 21-22). Two SFL leaders are on site to attend the release of Liferay Portal 6.1, a version that brings great new features, and the launch of the new "Market Place" which will allow SFL to promote its contributions as a developer. Christophe Villemer, executive vice president, explains the presence of... Rapidly growing, Savoir-faire Linux recruits four Java/J2EE developers!
Facing a sustainable growth, our Enterprise Solutions Departement plans to open its doors to four new Java/J2EE consultants and developers These newcomers will allow the company to continue its momentum in the Enterprise IT solutions market and to consolidate its position as the leader in open source software in Eastern Canada. Sven Werlen, our departement director, comments: "The size of our customers is more important this year and the projects we are involved in... Savoir-faire Linux s'inscrit au Défi Climat 2011 !
Savoir-faire Linux célèbre l'obtention de sa certification ISO14001:2004 en s'inscrivant au Défi Climat 2011. C'est avec l'engouement de tous ses employés que Savoir-faire Linux s'engage dans le cadre du Défi Climat 2011 à : Améliorer l’efficacité énergétique de l’organisation. Réduire l’impact environnemental de nos déplacements corporatifs. Les gestes que notre organisation pose déjà : Adopter une politique environnementale . ... Savoir-faire Linux au Salon du Logiciel Libre de Québec 2010
Savoir-faire Linux était présent en grand nombre au Salon du Logiciel Libre de Québec les 6 et 7 décembre 2010 : pour présenter Nodali , la plateforme à code source ouvert pour votre prestation électronique de service : Savoir-faire Linux @ GTEC in Ottawa on October 5th and 6th, 2010
Voici quelques photos de notre présence au Salon des gouvernements innovateurs du Canada, GTEC 2010 : Assurance Support Open Source - La garantie d'imputabilité
Savoir-faire Linux présentera l' Assurance Support Open Source - La garantie d'imputabilité lors de la vitrine technologique du 27 mai 2010 à Québec.
Dans un contexte gouvernemental qui nécessite une grande réactivité et des niveaux d'engagement de service élevés, l'intégration dans les systèmes d'information de composantes Open Source progresse mais se heurte à une problématique réelle d'imputabilité.
Qui va assurer le support de ma solution Open Source ?
Savoir-faire... Release of SFLphone 0.9.7
The SFLphone project has reached an important milestone this week with the release of version 0.9.7. In addition to bugfixes, this version introduces new features expected by VoIP professionals: conferences, high-definition codecs and support for the main communication encryption protocols (TLS, SRTP/ZRTP). Published under the GPLv3, the SFLphone project, developed by the Canadian company Savoir-faire Linux, confirms its leadership role in setting the standard for the open source VoIP... Free Seminar : SpagoBI, The Open Source Business Intelligence Solution, on November 6th in Montreal
Eng and Savoir-faire Linux have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on the Open Source Business Intelligence solution, SpagoBI on Friday, November 6th in Montreal from 9am to 12pm. At the end of 2008, a Gartner study has identified SpagoBI as the most promising technologies in terms of business intelligence. The release of SpagoBI 2.2 in 2009 concurred with this analysis and confirmed the leading position of SpagoBI in the world of Open Source Business Intelligence solutions for large... Free Seminar : Open Source Public Key Infrastructure, on November 4th in Montreal
PrimeKey Solutions and Savoir-faire Linux have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on the Open Source EJBCA public key infrastructure on Wednesday, November 4 in Montreal from 9am to 12pm. Following the Société Générale, the GIE Cartes Bancaires, the Swedish Police Board (30,000 users), Daimler AG, Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, Bankgirocentralen BGC AB, LM Ericsson AB, the EJBCA public key infrastructure has been chosen by France's Délégation Générale de l'Armement (French Ministry... Yet another IT project demanding a bigger budget !
You let out a sigh and remember with a certain nostalgia your company's first information system. With a reasonable investment, you computerized some of your business processes, and gained in productivity. But your company has now evolved, and although a good portion of the system still meets your needs, you wish to modify or replace some part of it. Nothing major. You are not an IT specialist, but you think that in 2009, it should not cost a lot to connect your e-commerce website with your... Smart decision-making with BI tools
By gathering an arsenal of powerful Free Software Savoir-faire Linux enables smart decision making with heterogeneous and often unorganized data. A health system specialist and former Quebec governement minister, Michel Clair, once commented: « We have much data, but little information... » By this, he meant that it is useless having large amounts of data if it's unorganized and thus unable to inform important decisions, allowing, for example, reduced production costs or... Obama and Free Software
There are reliable signs showing that the Obama administration is interested in Free Software. A few weeks ago, one of Sun's founders, Scott McNealy told BBC News that the Obama administration had asked him to prepare a study based on the use of Free Software as far as the american administration' economy and the security are concerned... During the interview at the BBC he reported that « It's intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and productive than proprietary... The federal government wants to be informed on Free Software
On January 19th, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGS) sent a request for information regarding Free Software ». this request aimed at « helping the Government of Canada to establish guidelines for the planification, the acquisition, the use and the transfer to Free Software. Whereas the Governement shows no real interest to Free Software, there are still some questions that need precisions (see below). From an operational point of view, it is necessary to... At the service of Canadian Royalties
The construction of a mining center in an isolated part of northern Quebec demonstrates that the use of open protocols – and free software – can prevent skyrocketing IT costs!
A few months ago, Canadian Royalties, a Quebec-based enterprise, began construction of a multi-site mining center 150 kilometres away from Salluit, an isolated village located at the northern tip of the province of Quebec. The challenge is that the building site, known as the Nunavik Nickel Project, is... The beneficial effects of Free Software in public administrations
A spanish study based on 16 implementations of Free Software in public administrations shows that the use of Free Software results in numerous advantages: decreased costs, increased independence from suppliers, and the possibility of creating a community around a project, among others. Additionally, Free Software can become a "collaboration model" between public administrations at different levels (local, regional, national and international). To read the study Support and expertise center
When a minor incident turns into a major problem. Whereas the absence of a comma in a text can totally change the meaning of a sentence, a small technical incident can shut down an entire system in an unexpected way. Yet again, the Savoir-faire Linux Support Center has witnessed such an event. A few weeks ago, during the night, Savoir-faire Linux's survelliance system issued an alert revealing that one of our clients' Web sites was down. The same night, after entering the client's... Savoir-faire Linux is an official sponsor of the 2009 PHP Quebec conference!
Under the theme Go further with PHP, the 7th annual PHP Quebec conference will take place from March 4th to the 6th at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Montreal. Savoir-faire Linux is a Silver sponsor of this event, which is the most important conference of its kind in North America! Cyrille Béraud comments: « We have been encouraging this event for a couple of years. It is a gathering of experts in the field sharing on a practical approach. It is important for... Cyrille Béraud : Free software, Yes we can!
An open letter to the IT business community - by Cyrille Béraud, president of Savoir-faire Linux Without any doubt, the years 2008 and 2009 will be for Quebec, in the world of IT, the years of free software. It was about time! Already, for many years, across the world, we have been witnessing a profound transformation of the computer industry linked to the emergence of this new legal framework. This summer, in San Francisco, I was able to see with my own eyes how, in Silicon Valley, with... Dr. Miège talks to us about his Public Key Infrastructure
The growing momentum of social networks added to the popularity of new mobile technologies and the transition to paperless exchanges leads to a deep debate in regards to the confidentiality and security of the information exchanged in enterprises. The Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), which had aroused interest in the late 90s, becomes once again a current affair. In an interview with Doctor Miège (Doctor in IT security and Director of Savoir-faire Linux' office in Ottawa) we have asked him... | ||
