Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (26 mails)

[Lars Rupp <lrupp@xxxxxxx>]

Hi James

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 05:32, James Tremblay wrote (shortened):
> I'd like to  turn those two "channels" into the most trusted
> education software sites in the world!

I think we should decide between:
-  "build service" channels (containing always the "bleeding edge" 
software) and 
- "installation" channels (containing well tested software for 
endusers).

Pointing endusers to channels with sometime broken packages doesn't make 
sense to me.

Yes: the buildservice should provide an additional "Administration 
Frontend" for Repository Administrators, so they can decide when a 
(new) package will get in an external installation repository for 
endusers, but at this time this Frontend is not there...

So my current personal "Roadmap" looks like:
1) Find out what we need:
+ test the current software packages we have on the distro => file 
bugreports if there is something we can do better
+ test other software packages (like new ones available in the build 
service or completely different ones) 

2) Bring it together:
+ come up with some lists on en.opensuse.org/Education which contain 
recommendations classified by childrens age or "subject" resp. "area of 
interest". So parents and children get a first contact point to look 
for available (and perhaps missing) linux education-software.
+ develop some special education patterns (a list of packages, marked 
for installation during the installation-phase of the new distribution) 
for installation sources. They can be splittet in the same categories 
like the ones in the wiki. So a first set of patterns can perhaps be 
placed on the next openSUSE 10.3 and endusers can just select a pattern 
like "educational software for children from 4-10 years" and get all 
software which is described in the wiki. (We can create some tables in 
the wiki and place links to a more detailed description (and perhaps 
even a curriculum) of every package there.)

3) Enhance it:
+ With the patterns and a hughe amount of good packages, we can start an 
own "Edu-CD" like edubuntu - if this is necessary. But I think this 
should be something at the end of a long way. 

If we create a good starting point for new customers, who can get 
1. information (which software should I install for my children)
2. packages ("just one click away")
3. useful instructions for "the first time" they try the packages

and all of these looking like a charm - I think we can do a very good 
job - and we need only a few packagers. What we need most are 
some "Beta-Testers" who test the available packages and write articles 
about them in the wiki.

Thats just my two cents worth - what do you think?

Lars
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