Future of Edubuntu meeting
Tomorrow (Friday the 22nd) the education community in Ubuntu will be gathering at 18:00 UTC in the #edubuntu channel on the freenode IRC network.
The topic will be if or how to move the Edubuntu community forward towards Karmic and beyond. The Edubuntu community has had a rough go of it for the last year or so but it looks like some “fresh blood” is wanting to re-energize the project and get Edubuntu back to being a leader in the educational Linux market.
If you’re a K12 educator, an educational app developer, school IT adminstrator, or an Ubuntu developer/contributor who is interested in Ubuntu for education and/or young kids please drop by the meeting. The possibilities are pretty wide open and community is seeking input, feedback, and contributions of all kinds.
I won’t be able to get there, so to speak, but my 2 cents: use a new icon theme that actually looks visually appealing, and not one that looks like a badly done cartoon
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Children deserve it
Rolandixor
2009/05/21 at 6:51 pm
How about merging into DebianEdu?
foo
2009/05/21 at 8:47 pm
Yikes that’s 2AM on my side. Let’s see how it goes.
Jerome
2009/05/21 at 9:54 pm
Jordan make sure you ping me on IRC and if I don’t respond you can try to sms or call me.
nixternal
2009/05/21 at 10:08 pm
I’ll be travelling at 18:00 UTC today, but we [1] are highly interested in start to collaborate with Edubuntu project.
We have recently release [2][3] GuadalinexEdu with Jaunty as mother distribution and we think we could minimize the effort of mantain an educational version of Ubuntu.
[1] http://www.launchpad.net/~cgateam
[2] http://www.guadalinexedu.org
[3] https://launchpad.net/guadalinexedu/
I’ll try to read logs of the meeting later.
Antonio Sánchez
2009/05/21 at 10:50 pm
I can’t be there but just to let you know we just installed Edubuntu 9.04 on the computers at our mission school in Zambia, upgrading from Windows XP. Edubuntu is really appreciated here.
I see the comment about the icon design. We think the colour scheme and design is good. Students from 6 to 18 are finding it easy to use.
Graham
Graham Hind
2009/05/22 at 8:29 am