Re: [K12OSN] perhaps a radical idea

[jam mcquil com]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Eric Feldhusen wrote:

> Richard K. Ingalls wrote:
> >> That is the target audience, you are correct, and this would not deviate
> >> from those goals for that audience. I mean one could just post
> >> instructions to the wiki on how to do all of the customization that is
> >> now being done automatically. I think that is what you are envisioning,
> >> but it is not at all what I propose we consider. I propose that we
> >> consider working towards taking all of that intelligence and
> >> customization and move it out of the Redhat installer into a more
> >> distro-neutral system that can be applied to a variety of distros to not
> >> only add some flexibility to the project, but to hopefully reduce
> >> long-term management overhead by making it necessary to maintain a hand
> >> full of packages instead of effectively an entire distribution, and to
> >> hopefully get more people involved in building it, and to insulate the
> >> project from outside forces by not putting all of our eggs in one
> >> basket.
> 
> Just curious, at the moment, the "we that works on k12ltsp" is who?? Is 
> it just Eric, just Eric and another person? Or is it 3-4 dozen people 
> working specifically on the k12ltsp distro? Because IMHO, if I, 
> personally, aren't helping with any of the work of actually creating 
> working isos, rpm updates, documentation, etc.., I'm not going to be 
> suggesting what "we" should do.

Well said.

It is indeed, The k12ltsp development team is really just Eric Harrison.

He packages my LTSP stuff, and adds it to Fedora.  And, he packages a 
ton of other stuff, creates simple installation scripts, provides lots of 
magic glue, and rolls it all up into nice neat ISO images for your 
enjoyment.  The fact that it seams like dozens of people is simply 
because he is so good at getting the stuff done.

I was with Eric last week in New York City.  After a long week of 
working the Linux Expo floor, and then going out for dinner on friday 
night, he couldn't wait to get back to the room, and get some k12ltsp 
work done.

Jim McQuillan 
jam Ltsp org