Fedora Education Initiative Launch

[David Trask]

Very well written Warren....very cool!  :-)

Fedora Education Initiative <fedora-education-list at redhat.com> on Monday,
April 10, 2006 at 6:28 PM +0000 wrote:
>I met David Trask and Matt Oquist at LinuxWorld Boston last week and we
>had a great discussion with a few other Red Hat folks about the current
>successes of K12LTSP and ways to improve the software and community
>around it.  This is significant because this is the first time we got
>other Red Hat people aware of and excited about the K12LTSP project,
>which today exposes Fedora to hundreds of schools and countless
>thousands of students worldwide.
>
>We came up with some objectives and action items from this meeting to
>further the goals of both K12LTSP and the Fedora Project.  I believe
>that we have a huge opportunity here to work closer together and better
>the software for the education community.
>
>Goals for us on this list are mainly development and administration of
>Fedora related education initiatives.  I envision keeping k12osn as
>mostly educator end-user support for now, and we can later reorganize
>the community infrastructure around K12LTSP when we have a clearer
>picture of what it becomes.
>
>Strawman Objectives for the next six months include:
>====================================================
>- Development discussion related to merging K12LTSP to become an
>official supported part of the Fedora Project.  This means that more
>contributors will help K12LTSP development goals.
>- Perhaps K12LTSP can be a "mode" to enable in the standard Fedora.
>- Eventually convert K12LTSP to use the Muekow framework.  Muekow
>potentially aligns with the basic building block goals of the Fedora
>Stateless project, so hopefully we can combine resources from multiple
>Fedora projects and achieve this by FC6 in a clean and Fedora supported
>way.
>- Collaborate on Samba and LDAP related integration possibly with Fedora
>Directory Server in order to achieve out-of-the-box centralized
>authentication between mixed platform school networks (Linux, Mac,
>Windows).
>- Plan Fedora's involvement in Open Source in Education conferences
>coming up, like the ones in ME and NH during June and July.
>- Reorganize the community to better support educators in the use of
>K12LTSP.
>- Design messaging for the promotion of the K12LTSP model.
>- Write more documentation to promote the K12LTSP model, and make it
>easier to setup a K12LTSP lab.
>- Professional production of an educational documentary video
>demonstrating the success of the K12LTSP model.  A well made video would
>make it easier for LUG's worldwide to convince schools to try K12LTSP.
>
>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list
>Please share your ideas, comments, or questions here on
>fedora-education-list.
>
>http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html
>K12LTSP Home Page
>
>Warren Togami
>wtogami at redhat.com
>
>
>
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100