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Re: Debian for education and PingOO



Vladimir Tamara wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

First, sorry about this late response. I've forgotten to put it in my
todo list :)

I think it's a great idea to create a Debian-edu project and I think we
(CRI) can cooperate in this way with everybody that can be interested in
such a thing.

IMHO, there are a few important points in such a project :
- light administration ==> we wan't to remove computing task to teachers
to let them do what they know : teaching ; so we have to explore
diskless solutions and other things like this
- education programs ==> packaging of free educationnal softwares (this
rejoins OFSET work)
- Internationalization of Debian ==> for the moment, I don't think it is
as ready for other countries than a Mandrake distribution for example
(package description is in english,...)

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Fabien SALVI      Centre de Ressources Informatiques
                  Archamps, France -- http://www.cri74.org
                  PingOO GNU/linux distribution : http://www.pingoo.org



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