August 2007 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-edu] Learning the Open Source Way Project - inquiry regarding announcment possibility
by Andreas Meiszner 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Good morning We, the FLOSSCom team & Ubuntu education, just started the “Learning the Open Source Way” project . The project is not about using open source software in education, but about the way open source communities and individuals learn. We believe that the open source way of learning could help improving (formal) education, e.g. the support model, the way of content creation, the individual skills people gain… Would there be a chance to promote this project through opensuse education? I don’t think that there should be any competition between opensuse EDU and edubuntu, but a common interest for all - but if there is, just let me know. I included below the promotion text as to be announced at the Ubuntu side, more information can be found at www.flosscom.net, or just ask me directly. Regards Andreas ====================================== Learning the Open Source Way Project Announcement ====================================== You use open source software. You work with it and you know how to help yourself when you run into a particular problem. You share your experiences and know-how with others on the internet. You participate. Perhaps you didn't realise that this makes you one of the more advanced learners on our planet? Have you considered yourself being a very talented learner and communicator? At the beginning of July, the FLOSSCom team and Ubuntu Education have launched the “Learning the Open Source Way” project. We want to advance our collective understanding on how learning, communication and collaboration works in open source and how these experiences can help to improve (formal) education. We are interested in learning what you are doing out here, your experiences and how you see things work. I invite you to join me and our group of interested learners and educators, currently including people from Germany, Greece, Portugal, the Netherlands, South Africa and the United Kingdom... Please come along for our virtual meetups and share your experiences and insights from the open source world! We are itiching to learn from your way of doing things in the open source community! We just started so there are still many ways to get involved and to help us shaping this project. Want to get a picture of what we are up to? Than check out what we did so far at Launchpad (http://launchpad.net/flosscom) and the FLOSSCom website (http://www.flosscom.net) , or join or re-listen to some of our meetings and talks (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/flosscom/talks). Our last three meetings/talks focused on: 1. Topic: What is the motivation to participate in FLOSS? 2. Topic: What does FLOSS learning feel like? 3. Topic: What are the roles in FLOSS? The coming three meetings/talks will focus on: 1. Topic: Summer University Newbie Introduction 2. Topic: What is the FLOSS support system? 3. Topic: How is FLOSS learning different from ‘normal’ education? You know that you can make a difference in open source, so you certainly can make it here too! -- With kind regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen Com os melhores cumprimentos Andreas Meiszner _________________________________________ Institute of Educational Technology The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] New CD
by James Tremblay 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Lars, How are you? How is the Baby? I'm wondering about the 905 mb size of the new disk. Is it programs or dependencies pushing us into dvd size? I'm not in the poorest school district that I know of, but even my IBM servers still all use cd's. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] The new openSUSE-Education Release is ready
by Andreas Ochs 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

The new openSUSE-Education Release is ready for Download now! Now we have a new openSUSE-Education-Image! Thanks to Lars for his great work. The image is untested and only for the open SUSE 10.3-Beta1. Get the 905 MB ISO Image for normal PC (x86) at: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/openSUSE-Education-for_10.3_Beta… The MD5SUM for this ISO Image is 7c90a5222e80c0103841da87501e9a9a openSUSE-Education-for_10.3_Beta1-Addon.iso Best regards Andreas Ochs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Lab/class management system
by Fajar Priyanto 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

Hi all, Has anyone tried http://italc.sf.net/wiki/ ? Looks very interesting. I'm planning to use it in my Linux class. Have just compiled it on my notebook last night, and will try to install in on all the client later today after class. Regards, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 7:55am up 1:55, 2.6.18.2-34-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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[opensuse-edu] Contribution to the Education Project
by Sebastian Dziallas 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi there, my name is Sebastian Dziallas, I am a german student and I would like to contribute to the openSUSE Education Project. To introduce myself a little bit more, I am part of a group of students, who are administrating at our school the computer system together with two teachers. At the moment we have a mixed environment, with mainly Windows Computers. But since I (and also one of the teachers) am using openSUSE at home, we would also like to extend the number of computers running Linux. Since we have now holidays it is a bit difficult to test a lot of packages in our system, but in the future, we could test the different packages. So I could for example propose to translate now some wiki pages: I am a native german speaker, but I also speak English and partly French. Maybe, you could let me know how I can help you. Best Regards, Sebastian Dziallas ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-edu] Opensuse Eductation repository : Source for required packages?
by Bryan Scott 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Many thanks. On 7/24/07, Lars Rupp <lrupp(a)suse.de> wrote: > On Di 24 Jul 2007 07:22:44 CEST Bryan Scott <bryan.scott(a)ffa.int> wrote: > > I am trying to use yast to install Koha and it is stating that > > perl-GB-Barcode is required, ie I am just trying to utilise the edu > > package repository. > > Ah - thanks! Now I understand ;-) > I will add the missing package as soon as possible. But it will take > some hours until the new package is available on all mirrors... > > Regards, > Lars > > -- Bryan Scott Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency Honiara, Solomon Islands http://www.ffa.int -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] What is a verticle solution for education?
by James Tremblay 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

In sales parlance, a vertical solution is one that covers all the components needed (application set\Hardware set) to perform a business task, i.e. HP has a vertical business solution, it sells: PC's, printers, switches, servers and software. In education a "vertical solution" could be defined as a set of software pieces that encompass all of the tasks an Educator is confronted with daily, i.e. a teacher needs an attendance module, grading module, course management, reference materials management and reporting\assessment module, etc. A school needs a desktop OS, server OS, web applications, e-mail, firewall, etc. With SLE, openSUSE and the EDU-CD we can provide all of the above and more. The EDU-CD adds to the standard business solution provided by Novell those tools necessary by compiling the various open source components like : Centre\SIS, Moodle and openbiblio and more onto one OS and makes them easy to install and configure, thus creating a "vertical solution". I would like to see programming enhancements to these offerings which make them more compatible with "No Child Left Behind" and those similar standards\requirements across the globe as we move forward. I think that we could entice the programmers involved in the different OSS projects for schools to combine their talents here and make these programs and the EDU-CD a standard for world wide educational environments. Think about the promise of an Open Source project that helps educators evaluate the progress of students and the effectiveness of their curriculum as compared to achievements and curricula of other students and schools on an international scale. With Moodle as the core curricula management tool, courses\assignments are internationalized simply by sharing them as modules in the Moodle forum, enhanced locally and returned back to the community in the epitome of open source. I believe that great teaching exists all over the world but the ability of the best teachers to effect the largest group of students is stifled by the boundaries of the physical classroom. We, the technical support group of those teachers and school administrators, can and should do everything in our power to tare down those walls as has been done by the technical support groups of the international business world. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] willing to beta test
by Jason Grizzle 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Greetings, My name is Jason Grizzle, and I'm an instructional technology specialist with Jackson County Schools in Georgia (USA). I'm excited about the educational focus for open suse. As a system, we're looking to migrate to SLED in (probably) 2-3 years for our Windows machines. My job function is tech. integration and teacher training, and I'm very interested in beta testing or developing documentation for you. I'm not a programmer, but I can develop web training, documents, and video tutorials. Please let me know how I can help you in your endeavors. Jason Jason Grizzle Instructional Technology West Jackson Middle School 400 Gumsprings Church Rd. Jefferson, GA 30549 (mobile) 706-410-5950 (fax) 706-824-1969 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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