Ubuntu in Education resources from Canonical

Thu Sep 2 14:18:24 UTC 2010

Thats very cool David!

Is there a list of the educational software that Andalucia has choosen?

Do they have any software for student management/account creation?

Is it all LTSP or are there netbooks or other configurations too?

Thanks!
Caroline

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:06 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> You should probably be aware that almost all of Spain is using Linux in the
> educational sector with Ubuntu being the leading provider in that area.
> Every public school in Andalucia (Southern Spain) for example, which include
> about 5000 servers and 1 million+ computers run Guadalinex-edu which is a
> direct distro copy of Ubuntu + educational apps chosen for this market
> sector.
> Further East, the region of Extremadura, the entire region uses LTSP based
> Debian for all their public schools. In Cataluña, opensuse-edu is being used
> for the entire school region, Madrid uses Ubuntu for its public school
> system, Castilla and Leon uses Ubuntu too.
> The entire country of Portugal uses Caixa Magica LTSP which is based on
> Mandriva.
>
> So for the Iberic peninsula (Spain + Portugal) I would estimate a good  6-7
> million computers running Educational Linux (mostly ubuntu)
>
> kind regards,
> David Van Assche
>
> P.S. I manage a couple of private schools in Southern Spain running LTSP
> Edubuntu.
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Belinda Lopez <belinda.lopez at canonical.com
> > wrote:
>
>>  Wow - I've already been blown away by the work being done in the
>> Education sector.  Ubuntu in schools, just makes sense.  Yesterday I was
>> directed to this great map showing schools in Finland with Ubuntu
>> deployments:
>> http://bit.ly/amFiOO  and more on what is happening around open source
>> there:
>> http://www.opinsys.fi/en/mista-on-hyvat-koulu-tehty
>> http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source
>>
>> And next week I'm visiting a local school in Houston, TX that has migrated
>> to Ubuntu/Moodle and lots of other open source offerings.  The project
>> leaders is also the Moodle Core Contrib coordinator so I will ask how we can
>> get more folks interested in helping with the technical side of
>> Ubuntu/Edubuntu.
>>
>> I'll keep plugging away at coordinating all this great info and have also
>> started updating some of the wiki pages.  Great stuff folks!  Let's keep the
>> momentum going!
>>
>> Belinda
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/01/2010 08:05 PM, David Groos wrote:
>>
>> Nice!  Cool things are happening...
>>
>> Belinda, I just got an e-mail from someone who was looking to install LTSP
>> on edubuntu lucid and was asking what he needed beyond the instructions on this
>> page <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installlucid> I had written.  I
>> referred him to this page<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installLTSPlucid>as well as the
>> basicsetup page<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/BasicSetup>.
>> From my point of view, a critical resource would be a complete set of
>> tutorials on setting up a LTSP lab in a school with Lucid.  It needs an
>> easily-updatable pathway to create a 10.10 BasicSetup page...  With a good
>> 'Hub' page Edubuntu would be open to many more tech inclined educators...
>>
>> Good luck
>> David
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at meekshome.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Belinda,
>>>
>>> You might want to talk to Maine Open 1 to 1 (open1to1.org) they are a
>>> Ubuntu netbook remix remix that is being used by a couple thousand students
>>> in Maine on netbooks.  There are also deployments in NH and VT.  They just
>>> started last year, this year they are working on being more involved in the
>>> Ubuntu community.  We are also working to put Sugar, which is currently
>>> being ported to Ubuntu (Ubuntu Sugar Remix) into this remix also.
>>>
>>> I am working with the Boston area Ubuntu community and folks from Tufts
>>> and Harvard to do a stick based deployment in Somerville where we will give
>>> families in housing projects refurbished computers and each person in the
>>> family a bootable USB sticks with Open 1 to 1 (or maybe a different mix of
>>> software for the parents).  We will work with community computer centers to
>>> give classes and use these spaces to provide internet access.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps!
>>>
>>> Thanks for doing this work.
>>>
>>> Caroline
>>>
>>>  On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Belinda Lopez <
>>> belinda.lopez at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Greetings all!
>>>>   I'm working on a short-term assignment to review and update
>>>> Canonical's Ubuntu in Education resources.  This includes making the
>>>> various websites easier to use for end user like students, parents,
>>>> educators as well as solution providers and others who want to do
>>>> business in the Education market place using Ubuntu and its
>>>> derivatives.  The Education sector is an important space on many levels
>>>> to both Canonical and Ubuntu.  I can't make any promises other than it
>>>> being a personal goal of mine to help drive the adoption of Ubuntu in
>>>> Education at every level so for starters I'm opening up the dialog with
>>>> the community on best to use the limited resources Canonical currently
>>>> has to develop some new content for the following audiences:
>>>>
>>>> End users: students, parents, educators
>>>> School level adoptions: decision makers
>>>> District/regional deployments; policy makers
>>>> Solution Providers: those delivering services and hardware to the
>>>> Education sector.
>>>>
>>>> If you have any thoughts on what each audience needs to know please
>>>> voice your thoughts here or email me privately.  I've also added this
>>>> item to the Edubuntu meeting agenda to help further the conversation.
>>>>
>>>> Also, does anyone have idea of how many schools might be using
>>>> Ubuntu/Edubuntu? or if there is some place we can ask people to let us
>>>> know about their schools?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Belinda/dinda
>>>>
>>>> Education
>>>> Canonical
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>>>> dinda at ubuntu.com
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