Test software

Test the current software packages we have on the distro => file bugreports if there is something we can do better. We've also some other software packages available in the build service repositories. You can add them as additional installation source via YaST or your preferred software management tool. Just visit the links below and copy the link to the repository which fits to your distribution to your clipboard. Afterwards add this link and you should be able to find and install the new software packages.

• Desktop Applications Repository
• Server Applications Repository

You can browse the list of available packages and their last changes here:

• Information about the packages in the Desktop Applications Repository
• Information about the packages in the Server Applications Repository

Propose new packages

Do you have some idea for new packages? Then inform us about your ideas! We have an extra wiki-page named Wishlist Education. Please provide as much information about your wish as possible - and remember that we are a free project, so commercial software is something for Novell - not for this list.

Review applications

There are many applications that are just waiting for review and addition to either the wishlist or the available applications repository at this site:

• The Education Desktop Applications list is a subset of the packages already available for the distribution. These programs are for educational use and should be enhanced with tutorials and links to other sites with "tips and tricks" about them.

• The Education Server Applications list is a subset of the packages already available for the distribution. These programs are for educational use and should be enhanced with tutorials and links to other sites with "tips and tricks" about them.

Educators please take moment to look over this list http://richtech.ca/seul/ , read the reviews and tell us which desktop pieces to add to the repository, what age group and discipline they belong to.

Writing a review would help very much. Here we need to speak about how well or not an existing software package meets your teaching needs.

Tasks

• Create some special education patterns (a list of packages, marked for installation during the installation-phase of the new distribution) for installation sources.

-- lrupp : done. Packaged as separate packages patterns-education-desktop and patterns-education-server in the Build Service

• Come up with some lists on en.opensuse.org/Education which contain recommendations classified by a childs age, subject or area of interest. So parents and children get a first contact point to look for available (and perhaps missing) linux education-software.

• Create the Edu-CD. This CD should keep the same time table as 10.3 - with just one week delay.

Topics for volunteers

1. creating a complete installation system for core programs
2. adding LDAP to core programs
3. creating "databridges" for core programs
4. translate this page into as many languages as possible.
5. Join as governing members - open to educators as well as technologists
6. searching for educational applications that can be included in openSUSE (see Wishlist Education)
7. test and write reviews for both existing openSUSE educational applications and those in wishlist
8. anything we haven't thought of yet