Successful developer gathering in Bergen, Norway April 27-29
Skolelinux / Debian Edu had it's second developer gathering in Bergen
this weekend. It was 35 developers from Belgium, Germany, USA and
Norway.
Thanks to Bergen Linux User Group and the organising comity with Cecilie
Wian and Alf Tonny Bätz, everything went smooth at the University of
Bergen.
Of many highlights the bigest was Walter Benders visit from SugarLabs,
the learning platform on One Laptop per Child. He motivated developers,
and several developers were motivated to make Sugar fully integrated
with Skolelinux. Of course, everyone who will help out in such an effort,
should join now.
There was student from four bacholor projects at Bergen University
College and Hedemark University College working on Skolelinux related
technology. They are making interactive pedagogic games, connections to
mobile Internet and performance testing on developer framework. Also
Skolelinux maintainers who runs big installations on many schools was
participating. They suggested several improvements and got a lot of
insight in the project.
More than 30 bugs was handled where 20 was fixed. Bugs in the thin client
setup (ltsp), the installation system (d-i) and the enterprise user
admin (lwat) system were fixed. The error list is reduced considerably.
But there are still bugs left to fix[1]:
1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Lenny
In addition to all the good work, there was three presentations at the
gathering. First we got a talk about Qt Software and their commitment to
free software as KDE, VLC and other projects. Second Alf Tonny
Bätz showed us the Rosegarden which is an excellent tool for making
music in music classes. Walter Bender ended the presentations with an
highly interesting introduction to Sugar, and how Turtle Art[2] works:
2. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art
Øyvind A. Holm took serveral pictures[3] at the gathering:
3. http://www.sunbase.org/pics/Skolelinux/2009-03_Bergen/index.html
Next gathering[3] will be in Narvik, Norway 24-26 April. Please join:
4. http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2009-04-24.26-Narvik
Best regards
Knut Yrvin
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