Fedora Spins and "where will this end?"

Sebastian Dziallas sebastian at when.com
Tue Jul 15 20:31:20 UTC 2008


Hi all,

as you may have noticed, there has been a kind of discussion concerning 
the future spins for F10 (and later) on this list. I was just drawing up 
some statements for a possible Fedora EDU Math Spin [1] (note: this is 
just a draft for now), but I think there are some points, which should 
be mentioned.

The question I would like to ask is: "Where will all this lead to?"

I need to explain some things:

I created some time ago this roadmap [2] for the education SIG. In one 
of our first meetings, we decided to focus first on applications for 
mathematical purposes - that's how the idea of this EDU Math spin was 
born. On the other hand, I'm aware of the fact (due to some discussions 
I had with Warren at the beginning) that there are others, who're 
building as well spins: Warren announced a K12LTSP spin including his 
LTSP5-work [3], even if I don't know, how the current state is there [4].

So far so good, but what else do we have? The Astronomy SIG is preparing 
an astronomy spin, too [5]. And I would bet that there'll be an OLPC (or 
more specific: a sugar-based) spin more than soon [6] - this has also 
already been mentioned three month ago in one of the education SIG's 
meetings [7].

But then, have we already covered all possible topics - even if we stick 
with the educational purposes for now? I tend to say no! There might be 
still some place for an Fedora Education Language Spin (hey, why don't 
why split this one up? - Fedora Education Language English and Fedora 
Education Language German spin are awaiting their maintainers!)...

Sorry, this might somehow sound inappropriate, but that is just the way 
it is. Don't get me wrong - I'm even myself a member of the Spin SIG and 
I applaud everyone's efforts to make use of this innovative technology - 
and I'm not going to blame anyone for his/her work, but still: I think 
it's obvious that we're going to run into trouble that way...

What do you think?

Sebastian

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[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Education
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Roadmap
[3] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg00888.html
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/K12Linux
[5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/Spin
[6] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-July/msg00926.html
[7] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Meetings/2008-05-09




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