This is a combined report of work accomplished and things done at DebConf4 over the last 2 weeks. Actually most of the report covers the first week; I have spent most of the last week being in transit, sick, or both. - Various work on d-i release. Test candidate 1 was done during debconf4, but another test candidate may be needed before the final release candidate to fix issues on less used arches. - Attended Skolelinux BOF (summary below). - Meeting with Mark Shuttleworth and Co about cooperation with debian-edu (summary below). - Talked over security update plans with various people. - Worked with the debian-np group, who are adapting debian-edu to their custom Debian distribution. - Worked with Petter and Jeff Liquia (actually, they did most of the work) on making pickaxe support building d-i CDs. This may eventually be used for debian-cd CDs. - On the plane back, rewrote tasksel; the new one is debconf pre-seedable and will play better with debian-edu eventually. Goals for next week: - Write up testing security updates proposal. - More work on debian-edu sarge CDs - Build out my test lab at the house. Summary of the Skolelinux BOF: The people attending this BOF included: Petter - skolelinux builder, etc Joey - debian-edu sarge issues, security, etc Andreas - user admin, international coordination, etc Mattias Klose - generally interested Holger Levsen - fai, custom distros, d-i + fai Lartin Langholf - in NZ, has grant for tertiary educaton there Christian Perrier - d-i, l10n, i18n Konstantinos M. - interested in skolelinux in Greek schools, l10n We discussed some skolelinux background, including the history of the project, the skolelinux/debian-edu naming. We went over the network architecture diagram in some detail, and discussed real-world load issues. Attendees discussed various country-specific needs: - in Germany, teachers require a way to turn off all monitors - in Greece, kde l10n work needed There was also some discussion about pupil cheating issues, including use of SE Linux, and ways to detect cheating. Summary of the Shuttleworth meeting: Petter, Andreas, Konstantinos and I met with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the as-yet unnamed company variously known as the Warthogs, the Shuttleworth group, etc. We discussed ways that we could work together; they think they can add most of the Skolelinux packages to their "supported" list, which would let us base releases on their twice-yearly Debian-derived releases, and get things like security fixes. They need a list of packages to see about doing this. (I think Petter was going to provide it?) Nothing final on this point, just the possibility is there. We also talked about the School Tool school admin project that Mark Shuttleworth founded, and a project he started in South Africa to get linux into schools. -- see shy jo
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