Welcome Sarah, hi James & @ll ... First of all: Welcome to openSUSE! Nice to see this list growing! Sarah writes:
I have a few questions about reviewing educational applications for the project.
Which applications do you mean?
What information and format are most valuable in a review?
Currently I'm a bit confused - and want to summarize some things (please forgive me for that ;-): 1) If you want to write some help for using application XY, you should talk to the original developers. They are normally very happy when somebody writes user documentation for them and integrate your work in their project. In this way every user on every distribution can benefit from your work. 2) If you want to create some reviews, you can do this at the openSUSE Wiki. I agree with Rajko that we need some templates for this. As not everybody has clicked on the links, Rajko has posted (thanks!), I like to create a first content template here in this list - please discuss it here. Not all of the content is useful for every software review, but we should provide as much as possible for the template. So this should be the first answer for your Question:
Are there any examples or templates I should follow?
= Name of the program = 1 Overview 1.1 History (if useful) 2. Features 2.1 Application area (could even be useful to list the recommended school type here) 2.2 Standards supported 2.3 Security remarks 2.4 ??? 3. Alternative Applications and Forks 4. Development 5. See also 6. References/ Notes 7. External links If you have additional chapters or sections, please add it ...
Where should I post my feedback?
Looking around I think we can collect the current work in the openSUSE Wiki. I've created a first starting point at: http://en.opensuse.org/Reviews the Categories for the Software Reviews are the same as on the Wishlists. I'll start a template for reviews, when we've discussed the proposal above. 3) I think it could be a good idea to add some curriculums and software recommendations for different school types here, too. BUT: *Forgive me for my heretical ideas below* ;-) I think this is something for _all_ distributions around the world. If no one intervenes, I try to talk to Edubuntu, Skolelinux, Ofset and other Organisations. I think we should think about a central place for such things like edu-software-reviews, curriculums and so on. As most of the other plattforms also using a MediaWiki for storing their Articles, we can just start on the openSUSE Wiki and migrate or just copy the content to a "cross-plattform-education site" later.
I know that over the past few months I have been very quiet , this is not because I have lost interest. It is only a sign of how busy I am. I can and will be available to have discussions with anyone with questions or answers. LOL
Please add me to this statement ;-) Regards, Lars -- Lars Vogdt <lrupp@suse.de> Autobuild Team SUSE Linux Products GmbH GF: Markus Rex Nuernberg, Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org