current Fedora EDU state

[Nadav Kavalerchik]

Hi List & Sebastian :-)

is this Education SIG is related to the development of the LTSP fedora
server ?
or is it about a live edu cd spin ?

nadav :-)

2008/5/24 Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>:

> Hi everybody,
>
> it has been quite calm, so I would like to give you a short overview of
> what has happened in the past in relationship to the Edu-SIG.
>
> Well, we had the last meeting some time ago, so here is the log (I think I
> hadn't posted it yet).
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Meetings/2008-05-09
>
> We talked about the different applications to include on a spin. The major
> decision was to release a math-related spin first. Currently, the most
> important thing is to release the spin ASAP. We have already talked about
> the applications we want to include. You might have a look at them on the
> following wiki page. If you have any further ideas, please don't hesitate to
> suggest them.
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Apps
>
> Finally, I played around with some kickstart files and figured out, that
> we'd be able to include all the chosen apps, as well as an KDE desktop
> environment. The most recent problem was, that we don't want to include the
> whole kdeedu package, since it includes way more than only mathematic
> applications. So, here is the bug request for splitting kdeedu up.
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446093
>
> Once everything is ready and in rawhide, I might go on creating the
> kickstart file, so that we can submit it to the Spins SIG & Rel-Eng.
>
> All in all, since Fedora 9 is now out, I think we should hurry a little bit
> up. The earlier we publish a spin, the more feedback we'd be able to gather.
> But it's clear enough that such a spin must be still production-ready.
>
> On the other hand, we talked in the last meeting about further spins. A
> great idea was to create a spin, which includes the Sugar desktop
> environment (well known from the OLPC). Since this is also in Fedora 9, this
> wouldn't be such a big problem, but there are still those activities for use
> with Sugar missing.
>
> The last thing I wanted to mention is the LinuxTag happening at the of May
> in Berlin. Is there anybody attending it? Unfortunately, I'll only be there
> on Saturday, May 31 (the last day), since the other dates interfered with my
> school schedule. Those who are interested in education and who'll be there,
> please let me know, so that maybe, we might sit down for a cup of coffee and
> talk a little bit about the whole thing here... :)
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sebastian Dziallas
>
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