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Re: [opensuse-edu] question about reviewing apps
- From: James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:02:13 -0400
- Message-id: <200703210002.13208.jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:45, Lars Vogdt wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
> Lars Vogdt <lrupp@xxxxxxx>
> Autobuild Team
> SUSE Linux Products GmbH GF: Markus Rex
> Nuernberg, Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
I agree with Lars and always follow the leads offered me by the wonderful
members of the OpenSUSE team. They have lead me to create what we already
have here without any misdirection..Thank you Lars ;) so his template ideas
would get my vote in discussion and since this a limited democracy please
members speak your mind.
I think that we can change the perception of what is "standard" , as Phil
Thane pointed out, buy associating software with OpenSUSE in these
repositories. soon people will start to say " it's listed in the OpenSUSE
repository it must be "standard" and Phil I too need a CAD program for my
high school. so please if you have any influence with one, talk to them about
opensourcing with OpenSUSE's help, they could be the first in the market to
do so and be the default choice in the future!
--
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Novell CNE 3\4\5
CLE \ NCE in training.
http:\\en.opensuse.org\education
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> 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
>
>
> --
> Lars Vogdt <lrupp@xxxxxxx>
> Autobuild Team
> SUSE Linux Products GmbH GF: Markus Rex
> Nuernberg, Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
I agree with Lars and always follow the leads offered me by the wonderful
members of the OpenSUSE team. They have lead me to create what we already
have here without any misdirection..Thank you Lars ;) so his template ideas
would get my vote in discussion and since this a limited democracy please
members speak your mind.
I think that we can change the perception of what is "standard" , as Phil
Thane pointed out, buy associating software with OpenSUSE in these
repositories. soon people will start to say " it's listed in the OpenSUSE
repository it must be "standard" and Phil I too need a CAD program for my
high school. so please if you have any influence with one, talk to them about
opensourcing with OpenSUSE's help, they could be the first in the market to
do so and be the default choice in the future!
--
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Novell CNE 3\4\5
CLE \ NCE in training.
http:\\en.opensuse.org\education
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