Education/News

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This page gives a summary of the important changes as they happen in the education project on openSUSE.

IRC-Meeting 2007/06/21

The next IRC-Meeting will take place on opensuse-edu@freenode.net at 1800GMT on Thursday, 06/21/07. Feel free to join us!

See Communicate#Internet_Relay_Chat for details how to join the channel.

Topics:

1. expired SUSE:SLE-10:SLED:Education Repository
2. packages for Education:
   1. cleaning up the Wishlist Education
   2. enhancing the list of Education Desktop Applications
   3. discussing general settings for Education_Server_Applications (saving config files, storing/creating passwords, ...)
   4. status of Edu-CD#An_additional_YaST_Module and YaST_SquidGuard
   5. KIOSK-Tool settings
3. Releasedate of the next Edu-CD

Wiki pages reloaded

Now we have a first "openSUSE-Education" Logo! Thanks to Andreas for his great work!

The Education start page has been split - now we have:

• Education
• Education News (this site)
• Education Desktop Applications
• Education Server Applications
• Edu-CD
• Education - To do
• Wishlist Education

Lars added a first description of the new YaST SquidGuard module.

Education repo is growing

Currently we have over 100 packages in the Build Service repositories which need testing! Find out more at the To do site...

KDE-Edu at the akademy

Anne-Marie Mahfouf invited us to the Edu & School Day!

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

Welcome J. Daniel Schmidt

Dan is an employee\developer for openSUSE. He will providing us with the YaST installation module for the edu-cd. http://en.opensuse.org/Edu-cd#An_additional_YaST_Module

OS4Ed

My friends at Centre have joined force with a new company to provide data warehousing for student data on a level unseen before, AND FOR FREE. check them out at [OS4ED]

LTSP\KIWI

The KIWI group met today to discuss adding true thin client support (i.e. LTSP) and we are well on our way. These are the minutes of that meeting http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/LTSP_Meeting_2007-04-24

Novell Publishes k12 books

Friday 20 April 2007 Novell has published a set of schoolbooks to teach open source, Linux and basic programming skills to children aged 13-16. The series of books, called "Get Ready for Open Source: SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10", For more on the story go to http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/04/20/223374/novell-publishes-open-source-books-for-children.htm#ContentContinues

Welcome to Peter Varkoly

Peter, Welcome and Thank You! It is a great pleasure to welcome another member with your talents and design capabilities to this very important community project. I hope that our new association brings many great things to schools everywhere. Again Thank you. http://en.opensuse.org/User:Varkoly

Changes from BrainShare

At BrainShare, this has been the best week of my professional career! I have met so many wonderful and dedicated people from Novell and from the K12 community, that to list them would be to much like "name dropping", I Have to thank David Brower and the K12 marketing team for the hand holding I got through the team introductions an for everything they will do and have done for us this year!

Changes from 2007-02-18

While searching for K12 solutions and student management stacks I found this: "Intel and Linux go to School" and this: "Enhancing education with Intel plattforms running Open Source Solutions". It seems we are not the only ones interested in creating a stack for education! Intel certainly believes and so does IBM.

Left to say: watch the official Education website from Novell.

Changes from January 2007

January has been a long cold month, we all have been working on our own things. I hope that soon we will have more forward movement on this project. I'm told that this spring will bring alot of interested people to the table. can't wait :)!

Changes from 2006-12-29

Great week off, we hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! A big Welcome to David Brower of Novell's Education Marketing team. I know he is going to be a great resource!

Changes from 2006-12-15

New packages added to both the Server and Desktop repositories. Minor updates to page content and a new contributer joined: welcome Fajar Priyanto, I hope your visits are always fruitful!

Jay Migliaccio joins us from inside Novell, He was working on maintaining some 28 educational packages for a customer and has offered to do the work here, where we can all benefit.

Changes from 2006-12-01

Lars Rupp joins us from the openSUSE staff as a "packager" and "site guide". Lars was working on maintaining Moodle for openSUSE and has offered to make those packages available here. As an experienced member of the openSUSE team he will bring a strong background of project management to this page.

Changes from 2006-11-22

First conception of project and host page created.