Re: How should we evaluate user applications?
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:30:06AM +0200, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> I do not see the mass of applications that go in or out with or
> without the cut at 16 or 18, respectively. I think we agree that very
> specialized stuff is not needed on the DVD and can be installed by the
> teachers, which in that case will know what they need anyway. Perhaps
> we should prepare a list of "fringe" applications.
Just a raw thought: What about a set of metapackages
education-advanced-<topic>
which will not be included into the DVDs but enable simple installation
if needed. We might add some flag to the task file whether a complete
metapackage might be ignored for the installation medium.
> I personally would love to have Blender installed, and I guess a nice
> project combining arts with computing is perhaps possible at school.
> But on the other hand it is exactly one of these programs that I can
> hardly imagine to use in a pupils' standard school career. Especially
> up to the age of 16. When I need several tutorials and have to sit
> down a day before starting to get a glimpse of how it works, I think a
> pupil will have problems too. (Perhaps I am already in the age where
> people are (get?) a bit slow on computer stuff ...).
+1
I personally never touched Blender but the paragraph above fits my
precondition about it and I always was wondering in what school people
might use Blender in "normal" education. This package would perfectly
fit my idea of an set of advanced metapackage for some specific stuff
needed only by a minority of < 1% of people. I also think that people
who are dived deep enough into the matter to user Blender will be
perfectly able to install some packages manually.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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