Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (29 mails)

[James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian, are your offerings in the openSUSE build service, are they included
in the openSUSE education repository? If not your part of the problem
I'm trying to eliminate, that is, educational offerings of OSS are
dispersed over the net with no cohesive location to find and choose the
pieces that meet "your" schools need. An individual repository for
software can hold a goldmine of offerings but if it's address is unknown
to the masses, What potential does it have? If the school looking for
tools has limited Internet access then providing a CD can be a Godsend
and if the versions on that CD are well tested, then the fear of
downloading a "beta" version can be reduced if not eliminated. As you
have pointed out most educators glaze over at the sound of tech speak
and those that don't still want the implementation of their choices to
be as painless as possible, which provides fuel to my fire. Provide a
Add-ON CD\repository to openSUSE that does exactly that, make it
painless.

I ask you to include your software in our repositories and if time
permits help catalog the pieces already there by writing description
pages with "How to's" that include installation, and usage tips.

You can easily get a build service account and I will gladly add you as
a maintainer of packages. 

I offer this same invitation to anyone who can provide evidence of being
capable of building RPM's.

-- 
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Newmarket,NH
http://en.opensuse.org/Education
"let's make a difference"

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