Doing a lot of Odoo here. It's a good do-everything business suite for small businesses. I'm not sure how big implementations it can handle. Odoo is open source -although it has limitations (Richard Stallman says it's "trapped" see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...). One of the clear advantages is flexibility to model the ERP to the actual business processes (not the other way around). There is even a possibility to sell the code via their market/app store or to share it via the Odoo Community Association. The company I work for as a team of 20+ Odoo experts. All busy. We do provide a range wide of training programs for and with Odoo as well. I'm exploring Odoo carefully for my wife's business, and it looks pretty good.

Canada, although with higher unemployment overall, is trending up. +8.6% in natural & applied sciences and related (category including software developers) http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/l... See codes http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imd... Alberta and Quebec are doing better lately. There are wide variations by provinces. http://www.etalentcanada.ca/pr...

Ring.cx is a videochat app that puts user privacy and freedom 1st place. By design, there is no big brother, no middleman, no trust problem. Ring leverages the same architecture as bittorrent (DHT), a decentralized network to connect peers. From there, all communication is encrypted peer-to-peer. Best of all, it's free software, backed up by the Free Software Foundation: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki... More at https://ring.cx/ Check the team's recent talk at FOSDEM: http://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2017/...

I work in a school. I do 8 hours teaching (HTML, Office suites, Java, from grade 6 to 9) and I do 8 hours of system administration. Since september I installed 20 Linux boxes in old and less old hardware. I set up Apache, postfix, samba, a firewall, NFS, NIS, and I host myself the website. People are not impressed by Linux. It does the job that's normal...! But they rather talk about their solution : Mac guy about Mac, Win guy about.... (the less we know the more we seem to talk). I'm myself an ex-math-teacher converted to Linux especially. The kids who really like computing seem to have been briefed by people who complain a lot. This kind of client is difficult to make happy : the ones who don't order anything but expect the best. Star Office is too slow, working at the command line (eh, 16 MB of RAM!) scare the kids (although they just have to know between 3 and 5 commands they use each time), etc... They almost get me to believe what I expect is impossible from the kids, and that at the same time they are computer genius!!? Running a P1.7Ghz at home with the latest, greatest (supposed to be), and most expensive, makes you difficult to impress.... it's a pity. What can we do?