THOUSAND is a Québécois project of promotion of the software under free license within the Québécois schools.

THOUSAND means “Model of Infrastructure of Free software in Education”. The purpose of the project is to reduce the maintenance and costs of acquisition of the material and software infrastructures, to reduce the maintenance and development costs of the services and to increase the access to the latter as well at the school as to the house by proposing a software architecture based on the free software.

The model suggested is based partly on the use of a network with broad band and is composed of a material architecture where the stations customers are centered network. Thanks to this architecture the stations customers could be light, semi-light or heavy.

The project THOUSAND offers to the pupils, to the professors and to the parents a virtual window on the school, the class and the resources of the network. The user has access to a personalized work environment which provides him an access made safe to the various teaching services on line offered by the school and used in its class. A Virtual office integrates the whole of the services and the access manages some.

The project is composed of projects:

• State of the art: a review of the free software

• Virtual office: a numerical environment of work (ENT) for the pupils, professors, parents based on the base UPortal.
• light Customers: System of light customers called Mille-Xterm. It is about an infrastructure which allows a deployment massive and centralized terminals graph.
• Hummingbirds: Hummingbirds is a distribution of free software for Windows, Mac and Linux
• Middleware: Free infrastructure for the data processing departments
• Evaluation: to measure the financial advantages of THOUSAND

External bonds

• Official site of Thousand
• Documentation
• Virtual office
• technical Wiki of Mille-Xterm