Technical visoion of edubuntu ver1.0

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 24.06.2005, 10:32 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:10:36PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> OK, but be sure to consider alternatives as well, in the event that
> UbuntuExpress is not ready early enough for you to begin testing Edubuntu
> installs.
ok, i'll think about that a bit more.

> > 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...
> 
> What is your rationale for using a live CD to run the server, rather than
> installing it?
its easier to customize and you can just run it right away for testing,
i'm very much convinced you will have a nice "AHA" effect with this in
your audience... especially if you can just click the install icon and
have the same setup you just tested on your harddisk afterwards ;)

> > 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.
> 
> This would be very useful of course, but is not a part of the initial scope
> for the 5.10 release of Edubuntu.  We already have quite some ground to
> cover, and we need to choose our battles carefully, so this should probably
> be a post-Breezy feature.
yes, but teachertool would need a nearly full rewrite anyway to function
with the new infrastructure, its small enough to just do a quick rewrite
in pygtk (i'm willing to make it ... even in my spare time if necessary)
which will function as a base for the _real_ tool later (i think i
already mentioned it in the spec)

ciao
	oli
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