Agenda Items for Edubuntu Summit
Jane Weideman
janew at hbd.com
Fri Jun 17 09:14:21 UTC 2005
Hi all.
It is time to formalise the Agenda for the Edubuntu Summit which starts
in just 2 weeks time!
I have been accumulating all the agenda suggestions I have received so
far and have listed them below.
Please review this list, and feel free to offer additional topics, or
suggestions, as well as any relevant input to the already listed topics.
Please also give through to the schedule sequence and discussion
dependencies, and which topics should be addressed first etc.
We will start with registration and introductions on the Friday, but
should not schedule any major topics before the Saturday morning (IMO).
Available Time and proposed Format:
* Friday *
16:00 - 17:00 - Registration and introductions
17:30 - 18:30 - Welcome (Mark Shuttleworth & Jane Weideman)
19:00 - Dinner
* Saturday *
09:00 - 09:30
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Agenda Items for Edubuntu Summit
1-3 July 2005, London
* Skubuntu presentation by Jonathan Carter (and Hilton Theunissen)
* Package Selection and Evaluation – how are packages selected and
evaluated ? Should involve input from the educators who are
targetted to use the packages (Paul Flint).
* We need to start looking at the various packages available and
evaluating them, as well as classifying them in 3-4 categories
such as Junior Primary (6-8), Senior Primary (9-11), Junior High
(12-14) and Senior High (15-17) etc.
* This process of evaluation is critical as this is the
most discussed need for the educational change agent.
Rather than looking for packages and evaluating
them, it would be wiser and more effective to build a
mechanism that
allows all the educators out there to evaluate packages
and our job
becomes tabulating and displaying the evaluations. This
is a paramount
importance to the educational community, basically
because all they really
do is to evaluate, it is the stuff of their daily lives
(ever get a bad
grade? :^). Essentially, no evaluation methodology, no
Edubuntu.
What we may need is a mechanism similar to what has been
built to evaluate
installs. I talked some about this and I feel that this
evaluation
capability should be somewhat user intrusive, but should
allow three
general goals:
1. You can tell it to buzz-off and you never see it
again.
2. You can tell it what you think on a casual user
basis.
3. You can get seriously medieval.
The result can be a successful evaluation which is
communicated in the
same way as the install evaluations. The same mechanism
is used (actually
re-used :^), to get this information back to the
evaluation process which
in turn updates the evaluation web site (and
yadda-yadda).
* Edubuntu Logo and Branding – select and agree on logos to be
used (get more final images and graphic files from Hennie)
* Edubuntu Documentation (speak to Jerome (jsgotangco))
* Added:
trunk/edubuntu/
trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuAbout/
trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuReleaseNotes/
trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuSetup/
trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuUserGuide/
Log:www.edubuntu.org
Edubuntu documentation added on svn ()
* Colin Applegate's step-by-step install guide ..?
* Architectural basics – Oliver Grawert (ogra)
* edubuntu can use ltsp, but could be used even without
this architecture, is a thin client architecture by
default desirable ?
* which default desktop environment(s) do we want to
support ?
* how do we want to implement the educational/scientific
software and which sets do we want to support (see
http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu for a initial
list) ?
* which default administrational software will we need
(class management, scheduling etc.) ?
* what do we do about multimedia apps for video/audio
editing, composing ?
* "Customer" requirements – Jeff Elkner – Paul Flint
* what is our target audience, what are their specific
needs (i.e. would edubuntu-elementary,
edubuntu-highschool, edubuntu-lab metapackages be
desirable)
* are there special technical requirements we need to
cover additionally to the ones listed at
http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientIntegration?
* how much windows compatibility do we need and in which
areas (for example wine pre-configurations for certain
software in vocational schools) ?
* Presentation by representatives of other edu distros:
* SkoleLinux – Petter Reinholdtsen
* Lliurex - Silvia Caballer
* Interactors - Quim Gil
* (K12)LTSP -Eric Harrison
* etc
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I will post this up on the wiki shortly too - if you'd prefer to provide
your input there.
www.edubuntu.org
Thanks
--
JaneW
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Jane Weideman
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Canonical Ltd.
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