hello all,
We finally have little national press
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1079#more-1079
I hope this turns into increased participation. ;)
Thanks for all you do,
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
213 S. Main st
Newmarket NH, 03857
603-659-3271 *318
CNE 3,4,5
MCSE w2k
CLE in training
http://en.opensuse.org/education
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Hi
Just a short update today:
1) Edu-CD
The first Alpha4 for the Edu-CD should be available for testing this
weekend! This Alpha4 will be compatible to the openSUSE-10.3-Alpha4.
You can add it as "add-on" media.
As this media is _not_ from SUSE/Novell, you would get a Popup-Warning,
that this media contains an "untrusted" GPG-Key. This is the new
openSUSE-Education GPG key. Just import it and you should be able to
see the two new patterns for "Education Desktop" and "Education Server
Applications" and install the packages.
2) Logo
Thanks to Andreas Ochs for a first openSUSE-Education Logo!
If no one comes up with a better proposal, we can take it for the
openSUSE-Education project as a whole, I think.
3) Wiki-pages
See: http://en.opensuse.org/Education
I got two Emails about an overloaded Education start page in the
openSUSE wiki. So I reduced the size by splitting of subpages. We
should remember that this page is the "signboard" of the whole
Education project which is hopefully a bit more than links to other
projects...
So I vote for a rewrite of the =Goals= Section (last part of the second
paragraph) with a focus on targets we could reach until 10.3 is out.
This should just be an overview (containing a link to the "Education -
To do" list) and not repeating the whole information which is covered
on the other sites.
We can go into details an a general future view later on - on other wiki
sites. But having a page which doesn't even fit into a 3200x1600
resolution can't be the goal in my eyes ;-)
Any objections?
Any proposals?
For the rest, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Education_News
Lars
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On Friday 18 May 2007 14:55, you wrote:
Anne-Marie,
could you please send us a set of kdekiosk settings w\desktop color schemes
and backgrounds based on 3 groups ?
1) early elementary k-5
2) middle school 6-8
3) high school 9-12
These would be used as presets for these age groups on the edu-cd and would be
best configured by people who teach and know the kiosk tool or someone
similarly qualified ,like a parent or other child hood development
professional.
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The KDE-Edu project would like to invite you to the
Edu & School Day at aKademy
3rd July 2007
Department of Computer & Information Sciences,
University of Strathclyde
GLASGOW
All people interested in Free Educational Software
(developers, administrators, teachers, parents, community groups and
associations,...)
will try to share their success stories, difficulties and wishes.
The program so far can been seen here:
http://akademy2007.kde.org/codingmarathon/schoolday.php
We still have room for lightning talks and we are looking for feedback from
schools or teachers. You can also send me (annma(a)kde.org) ideas for
workshops.
Please spread the word about this day using the flyer here:
http://edu.kde.org/akademy2007/flyer.php
Send it to teachers you know, to LUGs and all people that are involved in free
education!
We would be very happy to have some Suse Edu representatives!
Regards,
Anne-Marie MAHFOUF
KDE eV member
KDE-Edu coordinator
PS: Wiki page (more practical information will be added there):
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Edu%20%26%20School%20Day%20%40%20aK…
(please add your name in the Attendees list)
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On Friday 11 May 2007 07:55, Paco Cruz wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have tried the instructions and it worked like a charm. I have booted
> OpenSUSE 10.2 through PXE, both in a physical system and in a VM using
> the free VMware Server. This is going to be great for me :-)
>
> I plan to use this in a school to give students accounts in a central
> server.
>
> However, I am now looking for a way to chroot *all* my students so they
> cannot "wander" outside /home (or a specified directory). I have
> "googled" around and found various papers on chrooting one user, or ftp
> access, etc., but haven't found an easy way to create and administer
> 50-80 users in a chrooted environment.
>
> I plan to couple the chroot environment with Kiosk profiles to assign
> different capabilities to groups of users.
>
> I'll let you know if everything is going OK :-)
i'm sure that a modified netboot client could be written, but the resources
are a little thin right now. but I think it's a valuable idea and after we
finish the ltsp stuff , I'll ask that we look at that. then you can take the
hot seat lol
>
>
> On a related topic. Could it be possible to "strip down" the start up
> system to contain only the necessary files to boot a NX client and
> connect to a NX server? I am playing with the free NX server in OpenSUSE
> and the results in network speed and system responsiveness on various
> linux clients are absolutely impressive.
>
> ¿Any hint out there?
>
> 2007/5/11, James Tremblay <jamesat(a)comcast.net>:
> > On Thursday 10 May 2007 20:55, James Tremblay wrote:
> > > I have just completed the first set of installation instructions for
> >
> > LTSP
> >
> > > on Opensuse 10.2
> > > Could I ask that those interested in using this give it a try.
> > > Could I also ask the LTSP devs to give it a try. I know opensuse is
> >
> > foreign
> >
> > > to most of you but your input on what is missing and what can be done
> > > to finish it up would be deeply appreciated.
> > > Cyberorg and I are in the #opensuse-kiwi forum at irc.freenode.net
> > > daily starting around 6:30 am EST and there until somewhere around
> > > noon. schaefi is the core dev for KIWI and he can be left messages in
> > > the
> >
> > forum
> >
> > > pertaining to things that need to be done to the chroot and kiwi in
> > > general. --
> >
> > oops those instructions are at
> > http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP
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> > 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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I have just completed the first set of installation instructions for LTSP on
Opensuse 10.2
Could I ask that those interested in using this give it a try.
Could I also ask the LTSP devs to give it a try. I know opensuse is foreign to
most of you but your input on what is missing and what can be done to finish
it up would be deeply appreciated.
Cyberorg and I are in the #opensuse-kiwi forum at irc.freenode.net daily
starting around 6:30 am EST and there until somewhere around noon.
schaefi is the core dev for KIWI and he can be left messages in the forum
pertaining to things that need to be done to the chroot and kiwi in general.
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Hi,
IBM has installed approximately 300 infrastructure clusters at
Oxfordshire schools in the UK. Each of these clusters has two IBM
servers running Linux, including DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) and
Heartbeat (http://linux-ha.org) to provide high-availability management
for the provided services.
IIRC, these services include:
proxy caching server
LDAP authentication using IBM's LDAP server running on DB2
DNS
DHCP
Samba file server services
etc.
In the end, each school has a highly-available, remotely manageable base
infrastructure which is resilient to disk failure, server failure,
software upgrades, hardware upgrades, other administrative events, etc.
Of course, this is not as ambitious as making your school
fully-Linux-run, but it will work for _any_ school, and is a modest and
very doable step in the right direction.
It is my understanding that because these services included "proxy
caching", that they were considered an "internet enablement" project and
were therefore subject to getting UK grant monies. It is my
understanding that in the US, that such clusters might possibly qualify
for Internet enablement grants from "erate" funding.
I hope the above statements don't cause any SPAM filters to assume this
is one of those Nigerian scams ;-).
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Hi
Has someone a good idea for a "openSUSE-Education" logo?
I see http://en.opensuse.org/MiniSUSE - and I know that there must be
someone here who can produce a "better" one for the education project!
:-)
- perhaps a gecko looking like a teacher?
- perhaps a gecko teaching little penguins?
- ...<place for your ideas>...
Do we have any artwork specialist here?
Greetings,
Lars
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Hi
Luckily I've time for have a first look through the packages for openSUSE and
here is the result: a first "draft" for the new "education desktop" pattern
for openSUSE 10.3.
This pattern should show up when you install openSUSE for the first time and
click on "details" in the software selection. Or when you open the
Software-Dialog after installation.
Find more details about patterns in the openSUSE Wiki:
http://en.opensuse.org/Patterns
First a list of packages which _always_ should be installed if a user selects
the pattern (list of required (must) packages to install) - these packages
are already on the openSUSE-oss-CDs:
audacity
bc
blender
dia
ding
dosutils
drgeo
fluidsynth
freqtweak
gcalctool
gimp
gimp-help
gramofile
hydrogen
inkscape
kdissert
kdeedu3
kiosktool
kino
knoda
kseg
ksimus
ksudoku
muse
noteedit
rasmol
rekall
rekall-mysql
rekall-sqlite
rekall-unisql
sabayon
sabayon-admin
skencil
vym
wine
xfig
list of recommended (should) packages to install (will be installed, if they
are available):
batik
blender-doc
calctool
celestia
chemtool
dosbox
gcompris
geonext
gimp-doc
grass
italc
italc-client
kde-kids-theme
klogic
LabPlot
latex-beamer
maxima
netbeans
nvu
pythoncad
qcad
rosegarden4
scilab
stellarium
taskjuggler
taskjuggler-kde
tuxmath
tuxpaint
winetools
wxMaxima
yacas
list of suggested (may) packages to install (they will be shown in the
detailed list, but _not_ be installed - the user must "click" on them to
install them):
childsplay
octave
openclipart
OpenOffice_org-galleries
scribus
Any package missing?
Greetings,
Lars
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Hi:
I want to participate into the Spanish Translation Process ... of the
Wiki Page and of the different programs of the Project.
I'm awaiting your answer.
Best Regards.
Maxwell Draven
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