March 2009 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-edu] Next Meeting
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

On Tuesday March 10th we will be having out next IRC meeting on Freenode.net in the #opensuse-edu channel. Please join us . For details read http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Meetings/Education_Meeting_2009-03-10 -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- 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] Questions about the Trademark Guidelines for openSUSE
by Lars Vogdt 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Dear openSUSE-Project, dear "Contact Information" (permission(a)novell.com) With the release of the first openSUSE Trademark Guidelines [1], we see the big advantage to get the problem around the covered topics addressed. Thank you very much! We, the openSUSE-Education project, are a small community driven project aiming to optimize openSUSE for use at universities and schools as well as for education usage by schoolers or students. We've created "Add-on" Medias containing additional applications for already released openSUSE distributions. We've also created some manuals and HowTos (in the openSUSE-Wiki[2] and as PDF[3]) describing how to add the Add-on Media to an installed openSUSE distribution and use the additional software. Our repository is hosted by a server available under the URL www.opensuse-education.org. Regarding to your Trademark Guidelines, we've the following (permission) questions: 1) Are we allowed to use the Name "openSUSE-Education" as Project name? Note: our Add-on Media is called "openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE $version" 2) Are we allowed to use the domain opensuse-education.org ? Note: the homepage already contains a pointer that we're a community driven project. 3) Are we allowed to use any openSUSE Logos|Mark on our project homepage and documentation/presentations? 5) Are we allowed to use a modified form of the openSUSE-Logo ? Currently, we've * a small Gecko with a doctoral cap on his head [4] * a full Gecko with this head and the "logotype" openSUSE-Education 6) Are we allowed to use our current CD-Cover for the Add-on Media as it contains some "openSUSE" words in it? 7) Is it this right: we can create an installable openSUSE Media containing our own addtiional applications - but we have to remove all openSUSE Marks from it. ? Looking forward to your reply. With kind regards, Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Education Team) -- [1]: http://news.opensuse.org/2009/03/02/opensuse-trademark-guidelines-released/ [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Education [3]: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repos/ [4]: http://www.opensuse-education.org/themes/OSS-Edu/images/opensuse-education.… [5]: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/1/1f/Edu-suse_cd.png -- 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] SuSE in LPAR on as400 featuring openSIS
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

openSIS is proud to announce that we are beginning construction of a Linux server on an IBM iSeries computer using a SUSE LPAR. This is a joint venture proof of concept with one of IBM's premier hardware resellers, Mainline Information Systems. The goal of this effort is to demonstrate that openSIS and many of the other packages offered in the openSUSE for Education project will be viable solutions that run natively on the IBM iSeries. The proof of concept is designed to demonstrate the viability of openSIS and openSUSE on the iSeries platform, which runs an older green screen SIS (TERMs) for approximately half of Florida's school districts. If the proof of concept is successful, OS4Ed and Mainline will be positioned to offer Florida districts an alternative SIS that is free and modern and will run natively on the same hardware they use today. This will allow these school districts to migrate to a modern web-based SIS with no licensing costs, no proprietary software licensing costs and no hardware costs. Best of all, school IT personnel will not have to be retrained to support the hardware platform as it will remain the same. This is very important during a time where Pearson School Systems is ending SasiXP support in 2010 and state budget cuts in the billions are being made. Please stay tuned as we will post follow announcements and updates as we move forward with this exciting proof of concept. -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- 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] KIWI-LTSP on the osnews
by Jigish Gohil 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello Community I am happy to share that openSUSE KIWI-LTSP is on osnews, go digg it: http://digg.com/linux_unix/OpenSUSE_s_Kiwi_LTSP_Easy_Thin_Client_Server In other news, yesterday I did a workshop for IT teachers here which was received very well, we will be doing implementation of openSUSE-Edu and KIWI-LTSP at 4 schools: http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2009/03/03/workshop-for-the-baroda-h… Have a lot of fun... -J -- 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] opensuse-edu 11.1 edu-cd rc2
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Lars, what exactly is supposed to happen when an installer has the 11.1 and the edu 11.1 rc2 disk when he chooses to install with "add-on" media installs the edu-cd and it finds it and continues? when I get to the software to be installed summary I don't see anything that refers to the edu-cd. when I look at the details I see the "Education" category but can choose very little. when I look for "patterns" I see none. what should I do to get the default education server "pattern" JT -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- 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] openSIS porting to database independance
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello everyone, I am proud to announce the formation of the openSIS-MySQL project on Eduforge https://eduforge.org/projects/opensismysql/ The aim of this project is to work on the last major hurdle to getting the first version of my dream to combine our server products into an Education ERP http://en.opensuse.org/Education_ERP I will be handling installation and support questions since I am fairly familiar with the code. we could certainly use suggestions, feedback and assistance with the programming. areas of need, PHP , ADOdb, LAMP. Please feel free to join our mailing list at http://www.opensis.com/subscribe_newsletter.php or the forums at http://www.os4ed.com/forum/ -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- 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] openSUSE in schools
by Jigish Gohil 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello Community Some of you might have read the news that Gujarat Education Board has included Linux and Open Source Software in their curriculum for 11th and 12th standard from this year[1]. Baroda High School[2], a group of 4 schools has taken an initiative to familiarize their teachers to Linux, we are conducting a workshop for them on Tuesday, 3 March at their Alkapuri, Baroda school. We will be setting up KIWI-LTSP labs in all their schools so the teachers and students can familiarize themselves with the cool things openSUSE brings for them. Hope to see more schools embrace free software in a big way. Cheers -J [1] http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2008/06/22/gujarat-education-boardin… [2] http://www.barodahighschool.com/ -- 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] FOSDEM review / Status 11.1
by Lars Vogdt 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi @ll Lets start with a first subjective view about FOSDEM 2009: Friday/Saturday) First time in Brussels, first time at FOSDEM, first Beer Event, ... ...I found my way back to the Hotel around 02:00 or 03:00 in the morning (~2km/~1mile). Thinking about the people been there for the 4th or 5th time and talking about "lost in Brussels" after their first Beer Event, I'm shure they're telling the truth. Thanks to Google and all the other people for the free Beer! The booth was very crowded (university catacombs are very small :). openSUSE-Education was present with our own Demo-System from HP. (Thanks to HP and Lowry to make this happen!) and even if the current 11.1 graphic driver for the ATI graphics card was not really stable for the hardware (interesting: the pre-installed SLED on this machine runs without problems), we could show many of our Education Applications to interested people. Afternoon and night are full with interesting talks with teachers, users, and ambassadors of some Education Initiatives. Sunday) Too early for me ;-) Our "early morning presentation"[1] has ~15-20 attendees, thanks for joining! We've interesting discussions afterwards about the whole Education area - here are some topics (Andrea, please add what I've missed): 1) A global storage solution for "test results" and "instruction tutorials" is missing. Instruction tutorials (for teachers) about using a software in their lessons should be placed in the wiki. This way, everyone is able to work on it and the license is clear from the beginning. But we really need a solution to extract the information from the wiki and add it to the packages. For test results and other stuff, we should think about a generic "Education Daemon" running on a server and receiving/sending configuration data for applications and also storing test results. This way, all Edu-Applications could be configured on a central place and the progress of a child could be stored. I've already talked with Tim and David from Tux4Kids and Bruno from GCompris about this idea. I hope to get this discussed more widely on the edubuntu-devel mailinglist [2] - let's see what we can do. 2) A simple frontend for administrating and installing many identical clients. Installation is not the problem as we already have tools like AutoYaST. Keeping a configuration in sync is a "ToDo" - but as tools like the YaST2-WebUI and Pupprt shows us, thinks are already work in progress. 3) Finding really useful packages for Education. We still need people telling us which applications are *really* needed for Education. I'm currently fine with using our Education wishlist[3] as starting point - as these packages are requested by users. But we should reduce the number of "duplicated" packages - means: packages with the same goal like tuxtype & ktouch. Think about the "Popularity Contest" of Debian. We should evaluate, if this can also be used/packaged for openSUSE. 4) Focus on endusers: Start with a simple to use internet filter. Enhance this in the future. 5) Where is the Live-CD? First: we need more Live-CDs. I'm currently thinking about different CDs containing applications for our defined age-groups. But there could/should be more: * Think about a Live-CD connecting to a server and automatically creating/using a home-directory on this server. 6) Where is Sugar for openSUSE? 7) Using Remote-Applications ? Having a server in Stockholm and running your application in your local school. 8) Translation is important. What openSUSE-Education can do is to provide a translation tool for packages (to get a summary and description in the prefered language). But we even should work together with upstream developers to get the application translated. Think about the openSUSE-Education team as "connector" between developers and endusers. If people want to translate an applications, we should provide the "HowTo" and the conection to upstream developers, so everyone can benefit from the work. --------------- Status 11.1: Our current frozen repository contains RC2 since FOSDEM - including all bugfixes for 11.1. If nobody has a blocker until Friday, 2009-02-20, I think we should declare this RC2 as "Goldmaster" and freeze it. (Means: 1.0 will be done for all openSUSE Distributions!) With kind regards, Lars [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM2009#Sunday.2C_February_8th [2]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Education resp. devzilla -- 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] Materials for conference
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Lars or anyone, Is there someone who could help me with "booth" materials, aka things you brought to FOSDEM, CD's, posters, stickers? I have an invitation to speak here in SC about our project and could use the help. Thanks in Advance JT -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- 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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