Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (26 mails)

[Lars Vogdt <lrupp@xxxxxxx>]

Welcome Sarah, hi James & @ll ... 

First of all: Welcome to openSUSE! Nice to see this list growing!


Sarah writes: 
> I have a few questions about reviewing educational applications for the
> project.

Which applications do you mean?


> What information and format are most valuable in a review?

Currently I'm a bit confused - and want to summarize some things (please 
forgive me for that ;-):

1) 
If you want to write some help for using application XY, you should talk to 
the original developers. They are normally very happy when somebody writes 
user documentation for them and integrate your work in their project.

In this way every user on every distribution can benefit from your work.


2) 
If you want to create some reviews, you can do this at the openSUSE Wiki. I 
agree with Rajko that we need some templates for this. As not everybody has 
clicked on the links, Rajko has posted (thanks!), I like to create a first 
content template here in this list - please discuss it here. Not all of the 
content is useful for every software review, but we should provide as much as 
possible for the template.

So this should be the first answer for your Question:
> Are  there any examples or templates I should follow?

= Name of the program =
1 Overview
1.1 History (if useful)
2. Features
2.1 Application area 
 (could even be useful to list the recommended school type here)
2.2 Standards supported
2.3 Security remarks
2.4 ???
3. Alternative Applications and Forks
4. Development
5. See also
6. References/ Notes
7. External links

If you have additional chapters or sections, please add it ...

> Where should I post my feedback?

Looking around I think we can collect the current work in the openSUSE Wiki.
I've created a first starting point at:
 http://en.opensuse.org/Reviews
the Categories for the Software Reviews are the same as on the Wishlists. I'll 
start a template for reviews, when we've discussed the proposal above.

3)
I think it could be a good idea to add some curriculums and software 
recommendations for different school types here, too.

BUT: *Forgive me for my  heretical ideas below* ;-) 

I think this is something for _all_ distributions around the world. If no one 
intervenes, I try to talk to Edubuntu, Skolelinux, Ofset and other 
Organisations. I think we should think about a central place for such things 
like edu-software-reviews, curriculums and so on.

As most of the other plattforms also using a MediaWiki for storing their 
Articles, we can just start on the openSUSE Wiki and migrate or just copy the 
content to a "cross-plattform-education site" later. 



> I know that over the past few months I have been very quiet , this is not
> because I have lost interest. It is only a sign of how busy I am. I can and
> will be available to have discussions with anyone with questions or
> answers. LOL

Please add me to this statement ;-)

Regards,
Lars


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Lars Vogdt <lrupp@xxxxxxx>                
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