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Re: Debian for education and PingOO



>>>>> "Fabien" == Fabien Salvi <fabien@cri74.org> writes:

    Fabien> 1) About automated installation For the moment, Debian is
    Fabien> based on the old Debian Slink. But, It will use the new
    Fabien> Debian Potato (or maybe Woody) in the future (we can't
    Fabien> give delay for the moment) So, we could not use debconf
    Fabien> which doesn't exist for slink And, I am not sure debconf
    Fabien> is the good solution.  You can check the installation
    Fabien> method we are using in the documentation :
    Fabien> http://www.pingoo.org/docs/dev/install-en/ We are now
    Fabien> using debian packaging for installation, configuration and
    Fabien> upgrade.

    Fabien> For the next version, we will look at replicator, cfengine
    Fabien> or FAI.  It will be more flexible...

Good. 

    Fabien> 2) About integration of PingOO in the standard Debian
    Fabien> distribution It was not possible because of our precedent
    Fabien> choice (Java administration interface, particular
    Fabien> installation method and upgrade, system
    Fabien> administration,...), but I hope we can do this in the
    Fabien> future with the new version.  The next administration
    Fabien> interface will be a web-based interface (I don't know for
    Fabien> the moment which tool we are going to use, maybe php).

Great.

    Fabien> 3) About Workstation We are starting to work on end-users
    Fabien> computer, so we are interested in your work about Debian
    Fabien> and Educational use.

Perfect.

I really  hope to work  in team with  you and other people.   IMHO, in
this moment the development model  of Debian (as distribution) is very
good, and PingOO has a lot of experience with servers for schools.

Couldn't we  join efforts  to create a  distribution based  on Debian,
Debian-Jr, PingOO, OFSET, GNU, RedEscolar, Seul-Edu and whoever wants
to join and  share the development model of Debian?   I think that Ben
already suggested as name Debian-edu.

While Debian-Jr is  focused in education at home,  Debian-edu would be
focused  in education  at schools,  and both  could cooperate,  and of
course also with other existing projects like PingOO.

Does it sound possible?  

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