April 2008 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-edu] Categories needed
by Lars Vogdt 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi all As mentioned in my previous mail, we should create/define some categories for education applications. I like the idea to follow the freedesktop.org standards : http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html So we have Education as main category => Wiki Syntax: [[Category:Education]] An here are the Subcategories - I tried to order them by importance for us as many of them are also in the science category. Education -> Art Education -> Construction Education -> Languages Education -> Science Education -> Astronomy Education -> Biology Education -> Chemistry Education -> ComputerScience Education -> DataVisualization Education -> Electricity Education -> Geography Education -> History Education -> ImageProcessing Education -> Literature Education -> Math Education -> NumericalAnalysis Education -> Physics Education -> Economy Education -> ArtificialIntelligence Education -> Geology Education -> Geoscience Education -> MedicalSoftware Education -> Robotics Education -> Sports Education -> ParallelComputing If the packagers chosse the same category for the desktop menu entry, a user can - for example - have a look in his desktop menu: "Education" -> "Languages" and afterwards search in our wiki for http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Education_Languages Any doubts or additions from your side? Interesting: where should we place bibletime and gnomesword (both Bible Study Software)? Regards, Lars -- 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] Status update April 2008
by Lars Vogdt 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi all Parallel to the openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE 10.3 release, we are currently working on other projects. Here is the overview: The URL*http://education.opensuse.org/ has been applied for us. http://en.opensuse.org/Education will be reachable at the above URL in a few days. * http://www.opensuse-education.org/ will get a "Face lift" in a few weeks. The new Design will look more like the official openSUSE-Layout. Help is needed! Any webdesigner (we need somebody knowing YaML) around? * As far as the RC2 is concerned, there are only a few Bugs left to take care of. Hopefully they will get fixed soon. Everybody who has some wishes left, please fill them in our bugzilla at http://bugs.opensuse-education.org/ At the moment the automatic package selection during first installation is deactivated. This is the result of a newer package "bc" on the Education media. A bug in the 10.3 installer doesn't find the right solution and so no pattern (and no package) is preselected. The online repository is already fixed - in the final media all packets will be selected automatically, too. (see bug #0000029) * The patterns will see some rework prior to release but they already demonstrate functionality in their current form. * Lars has talks with Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann about his “Seminarix” to provide Seminarix on openSUSE. * There are new packets in the Buildservice Repository: + Score Reading Trainer + ksociograma + gbrainy As a result of a short talk in IRC (thanks to kkirill!), packagers adding new packages to the obs repository should also start a new wiki page. We've created a template here: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Wiki#Template_for_Application_descriptions * The work on the Wiki is moving ahead as well. We have updated http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Applications/Desktop. It now contains all currently available applications. Additionally we want to use "Categories" to assign applications to a group automatically. Feel free to make suggestions! Currently you can find all applications with their descriptions in the Category: Education Applications => http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Education_Applications We can provide more than one Category for each application. So an application can be in "Category:Education Applications" and also in "Category:Music" and/or "Category:Artistic scope"... Regards, Lars -- 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-education
by James Tremblay 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello everyone, The openSUSE-education team has been working had to create an "add-on" cd that installs desktop software for children based on age group. the "EDU-CD" also has some teaching aids and a few school administration tools. I invite you to download our RC2 ( http://www.opensuse-education.org/) this month and our full release in May. I beg of you to burn a copy and take it to your child's school, introduce them to our project and show them just how much software is freely available to teachers. We have tried to collect the best titles available for inclusion here and need your help making sure we have them installing and running correctly. Feel free to visit our sites. http://en.opensuse.org/education and http://www.opensuse-education.org/ for information and software. We collaborate on IRC using freenode on the channel #opensuse-edu and by using the mailing list opensuse-edu(a)opensuse.org we are looking forward to hearing from all of you soon! :~) -- James Tremblay aka, SLEducator Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket NH 03857 http://en.opensuse.org/education "Let's maker a difference!" Registered Linux user #440182 CNE 3,4,5 CLP 9 CLE in training ;) -- 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] Test
by James Tremblay 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Can I post from this account? -- James Tremblay aka, SLEducator Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket NH 03857 http://en.opensuse.org/education "Let's maker a difference!" Registered Linux user #440182 CNE 3,4,5 CLP 9 CLE in training ;) -- 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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Re: [opensuse-edu] RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 - ready for your testing
by Andrea Florio 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

That's a good news.. repository yet added on my list Lars Vogdt ha scritto: > Hi > > With RC2 we'll start the last testing phase before we release the final > version of openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE 10.3. At this point, > we'll just fix the current packages and work on the documentation. > > In opposition to the normal release workflow, we updated many packages > and even added new ones to the media. Below is an incomplete list of > changes with this release: > > * all KDE4 packages are updated to 4.0.3 > * For the first time, we've LTSP 5 packages (and a pattern)! Many > thanks to cyberorg and kiw: now you can easily install a n openSUSE > terminalserver! > * NetBeans 6.0.1 was added > * Gambas2 and Tipp10 as well > * With Phun we now have a funny 2D physics sandbox > * and with k3dsurf a program to visualize and manipulate > Mathematical models in three, four, five and six dimensions. > * iTALC was updated to 1.0.7 and adapted to integrate better in > openSUSE > * with wine-doors it should be much easier to install Windows > Software on openSUSE > * tuxpaint (incl. tuxpaint-config and tuxpaint-stamps) made an > update leap > * Additional packages with new versions: > o clis > o chemtool > o childsplay-languagepacks > o dansguardian > o fbreader > o galculator > o gcalctool > o gcompris > o geogebra > o kding > o kseg > o pauker > o MultiplicationStation > o moodle > o semantik > > A detailed changelog can be found here[0]. > > As a result of the size, we decided to ship three ISO images instead of -- 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] RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 - ready for your testing
by Lars Vogdt 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi With RC2 we'll start the last testing phase before we release the final version of openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE 10.3. At this point, we'll just fix the current packages and work on the documentation. In opposition to the normal release workflow, we updated many packages and even added new ones to the media. Below is an incomplete list of changes with this release: * all KDE4 packages are updated to 4.0.3 * For the first time, we've LTSP 5 packages (and a pattern)! Many thanks to cyberorg and kiw: now you can easily install a n openSUSE terminalserver! * NetBeans 6.0.1 was added * Gambas2 and Tipp10 as well * With Phun we now have a funny 2D physics sandbox * and with k3dsurf a program to visualize and manipulate Mathematical models in three, four, five and six dimensions. * iTALC was updated to 1.0.7 and adapted to integrate better in openSUSE * with wine-doors it should be much easier to install Windows Software on openSUSE * tuxpaint (incl. tuxpaint-config and tuxpaint-stamps) made an update leap * Additional packages with new versions: o clis o chemtool o childsplay-languagepacks o dansguardian o fbreader o galculator o gcalctool o gcompris o geogebra o kding o kseg o pauker o MultiplicationStation o moodle o semantik A detailed changelog can be found here[0]. As a result of the size, we decided to ship three ISO images instead of one: * openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-i386-RC2.iso => for (normal) 32bit PCs * openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-x86_64-RC2.iso =>for 64bit PCs * openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-SOURCES-RC2.iso => contains the source RPMs (if you don't know what this means, you don't need it icon_wink You can find the ISO images in our download directory[1] and also on the SUSE FTP-Server[2]. But you can also add our Online-Repostiory as add on source via the YaST2 Add-on Module. Just use the URL: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/10.3/ Please report errors in our Bugtracker[3] on openSUSE-Education. Kind regards on behalf of the openSUSE-Education Team, Lars -- [0]; http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/test/10.3/ChangeLog [1]: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/ [2]: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/education/ [3]: http://bugs.opensuse-education.org/ -- 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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