How close to ultimate goal?

[Corey Burger]

On 3/7/06, Gary Cziko <g-cziko at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> All:
>
> I read somewhere on an Edubuntu webpage (can't find it now) that the
> ultimate goal of Edubuntu is to make it possible for a teacher without
> specialized computer technology skills to be able to set up a lab running
> Edubuntu and the Linux terminal server in one h our.
>
> Being new to Linux and having played with Edubuntu over the last 10 days or
> so, I am impressed with how easy Edubuntu is to use. But while Add
> Applications and the Synaptic Package Manager make most programs easy to
> install, some installations are much more complicated than what it takes to
> install programs on Windows or Macintosh (for example, see instructions for
> installing Gnutella at
> http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/ch03s06.html#id2529193).
>
> So I am wondering how close Edubuntu is to its goal of making it possible
> for a teacher to set up a computer lab with Edubuntu.  Is this something
> that will soon be here, perhaps in Dapper, or a bit farther down the line.
> Or perhaps this is instead a vision that will keep Edubuntu moving along but
> it won't happen  in the foreseeable future.
>
> --Gary

For me, in order to keep moving towards that goal, we need to create a
specific list of things that are still hard to do. We need teachers to
tell us how they use (and would use) Edubuntu and computers in their
classroom.

There is another great benefit to having a clear goal list: It allows
us to easily tell new developers and would be developers what we need
help on.

With that in mind, can you create a wiki page with specific pieces of
information that you would like to be made easier, most especially
those that specific to education?

Corey