Skolelinux participation at the Edubuntu Summit

[Markus Gamenius]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote:
> 
>> They have told me that you (the region) are nothing if you do not have 
>> your own Linux-distro.
> 
> Ups.  I'll consider a Wernilux distro (the city I'm living in is called
> Wernigerode) because my city would be nothing without ist own Linux-distro.
> Strange logic ...


This was meant a litle bit ironical I belive.  ;-)

> 
>> They are planing (not descided yet) to make one their selves.
> 
> I'm more and more convinced that people can not stop buildin g their own
> Linux distro just because they lack the knowledge how to customize or
> enhance the source from where they derive.  This is an absolute waste
> of time for the people who are building the distro.  The disadvantage
> we as a oftenly used distro for derivatives have is not very big - we
> just will miss some reasonable patches which might lead to greater
> flexibility but in the end we could have much more easily to maintain
> Linux installations in the world if people would finally understand how
> to cooperate.
> 

True

> To understand how to cooperate we dramatically need some good documentation
> HOW to do this and we probably need this documentation translated into
> the languages of potential derivers.  When I faced this problem I started
> writing
>      http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/
> I'd open the SVN immediately for a Spanish translation and accept patches
> how to make this easier to understand.
> 
>> They say that they are going to use Skolelinux for this. I'm not sure 
>> if this means a translated Skolelinux/Debian-Edu or a new distro based 
>> on Skolelinux.
> 
> Please try to convince them that an enhanced translation might be the best
> for all sides.
> 

Yes, I will. I have talked to some more peoples to day and they say that 
they will use a translated Skolelinux. The problem is more that some of 
the pliticans want to pay a company (could be Novell) to make a distro 
for this region. The people I have talked to say that they are going to 
use Skolelinux anyway..... I think time will show.


>> After talking to a lot of people down here I have to admit that they 
>> are wery lucky with local athorities who understand the need to use 
>> free software.
> 
> This is in fact a very good base to work on.
> 

Indeed

>> If Spain continues in this direction they are wery soon going to be 
>> the number one Linux nation in the EU
> 
> The two visits in Spain last year made me think about moving to Spain as
> a reasonable option. To convince me fully we would have to move it some
> 1000 km North to get a milder (not so hot) climate for my taste. ;-))
> 

It's a nice place and friendly people.

best regards
Markus

> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
>