Jeff, Thank you very much. I would like to give you an outline of what I always thought the module should do, at least during installation. when a user decides to use the "add on " feature the YaST module should provide four basic patterns 1) pre kindergarten - 6 grade - this would install only those apps whom recommend themselves for this age group and provide either a "Sugar" desktop or a very limited gnome\kde with background and icon choices suitable to the age group 2) Middle school or 7-8 slightly more sophisticated software choices and desktop freedom starting obviously with a background and menu pattern suitable to the age group while eliminating the obvious younger group choices. 3) high school or 9-12 with most "power user" freedoms All of these would initiate the installation of squid and dans guardian 4) server - based on the openschoolserver from Extis http://www.openschoolserver.net/ , including choices for an SIS (student information system) Class or openSIS, School administrative software like http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Applications/Best_Of#Edu-Admin and http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Applications/Best_Of#Web-Based Let me know what you think James aka SLEducator Jeff Shantz wrote:
Hi all,
Just a quick note to introduce myself. My name is Jeff Shantz and I'm an M.Sc. candidate in Computer Science in Canada. I'll be working on the YaST Education module [1] this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code 2009, mentored by Marek Stopka. I have some experience with YaST module development, locking down systems, Internet filtering, and firewalling from my time working at IBM, so I'm looking forward to implementing this project and making it as easy as possible for parents/teachers to administer their systems.
If anyone has any advice or suggestions on the direction for the project, I am more than happy to receive it. Thanks.
Jeff
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