Technical visoion of edubuntu ver1.0

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 24.06.2005, 17:37 +0200 schrieb Jane Weideman:
> > Good idea! Kind of "are you ready for...? Get a first taste!" and
> > then, all they gotta do is to update.
> er, Oliver can you respond to this please.
> 
> I am not sure how ready we will be by then, but Oliver would be in the
> best position to know...
yes, indeed i can, even if i planned to be a bit further in development
before i throw my visions onto the list (i.e. i wanted to introduce it
next week)...

i'm currently working on a LiveCD i'd like to show at the summit, it
shall contain the below mentioned features and should be called a
showroom release, after the summit i'll make the changes we decided
there.

my vision of our first release is a LiveCD with included installer
(http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuExpress), the CD should work in a
manner that you dont need to touch anything and be able to set up a
(20-30 workplace/1 server) classrom within minutes and with no or as
less interaction as possible.

the following process should show what i aim for our first release:

you pick one pc in a networked classroom as the server and throw in the
liveCD. after the cd has booted with a sane ltsp default setup (based on
the shiny new ltsp packages we have in breezy now, thanks to mdz) you
are able to just power on the clients... if they are able to netboot,
they should simply just boot from the ltsp server and function as
diskless clients...

since i dont expect to have thousands of adopters right away, my
(technical) target is to attract schools with simplicity as well as
(nearly) zero maintenance work. 

the CD content should stay as near to the default ubuntu desktop as
possible, so that we can benefit as much as possible from the work of
the main distro team and their supported set of applications (and their
security updates as well). also the philosophy of one CD for the base
installation is in my focus, we can have add on CDs as much as we want
later :)

there should be only one application for every usecase (redundancy is
evil and eats diskspace) and preferably this app should integrate as
tight as possible with the desktop (i made a initial default list i will
include in the first CD on http://www.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDesktop ).

i want the maintenance/management of this classroom to be done with one
single app which is run from the teachers workstation (similar to
teachertool, but with a lot more functionallity and more visualization,
see www.edubuntu.org/TeachersPet for a initial spec) this tool shall
have a plugin mechanism to extend it for derivatives and further
releases.

my main target (for this CD) is that a totally non technical person that
is able to use basic office/web functionallity of a PC should be able to
setup and run a edubuntu based classroom with this first release out of
the box, no tweakage or playing around on the commandline should be
needed and i think we can guarantee full upgradeability if we stick as
near as possible to the main ubuntu version and their its app set.

feel free to comment and critisize this plot if you find inconsistencys.
but please understand that we are not yet going for 200 server and 10000
client installation, i think we should grow up with our releases and try
to make it as perfect as possible even if that means it will take a
release more to reach our target (6 months are very short, so new
features can be introduced twice a year if we need them).

ciao
	oli
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