Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu
David Farning
dfarning at sugarlabs.org
Thu Sep 30 21:46:30 UTC 2010
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
<jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu Developers
>
> (snip original very, very long e-mail about Edubuntu originally typed)
>
> Here are some ideas we've been discussing in Edubuntu for Natty and
> Natty+1. They probably won't fit in to one single Ubuntu track, so I
> opened a new thread on this list (hope that's ok). They aren't all
> intended to be implemented and some ideas will most certainly require a
> lot of planning and discussion.
>
> We've never had a shortage of ideas before, usually just a shortage of
> people to implement them. Having said that, additional ideas are always
> welcome and this list will probably grow a bit in the lead-up to UDS.
This past release has seen the complete packaging of Sugar, originally
created for the one Laptop per child project, for Debian and Ubuntu.
For the upcoming cycle,
1. I will commit to sponsoring maintainers for Sugar .88 on maverick
and releaseing Sugar .92 on natty.
2. Porting the OLPC school server packages to Debian and Ubuntu.
> === Installer ===
>
> * More options for desktop environments
> * More LTSP options for LTSP options screen
> * Fix delays caused in installer by installing almost all available
> Ubuntu language packs, then removing almost all of them again except for
> the one that the user chose
> * New Ubiquity slideshow
>
> === Edubuntu Server ===
>
> * Create meta-package that could be used on ubuntu-server that installs
> and if possible, configures edu-webapps
> * Test latest moodle packaging efforts done in Debian and sync
> * Assist Schooltool team early in release to get final remaining Zope
> dependencies in the archives
> * Take a new look at central authentication in Ubuntu and how it can be
> simplified, in particular the work done by Opensys
> * Investigate other potential server side apps and tools and find a
> better way to deliver them (web apps are a pain)
>
> == Edubuntu Artwork ===
>
> * Update the breathe-icon-theme to remove old (brown) Ubuntu references
> and make it more modern, make panel icons more appropriate and in line
> with Ubuntu artwork, while maintaining some playfulness
> * Refresh Edubuntu colours and update GTK theme, plymouth theme, GDM
> login, etc to be more consistent, fix current artwork bugs
>
> == Edubuntu Documentation ==
>
> * Edubuntu 11.04 installation guide, release notes, release announcement
> * Edubuntu LTSP Tips and Tricks Document
> * "Glue documentation" between upstream documentation for Edubuntu for
> tools such as Pessulus, Sabayon, iTalc, Nanny, etc. Explain Edubuntu
> specific differences.
> * More instructional videos on YouTube, make better use of the awesome
> YouTube community that have already created a bunch of screencasts,
> feature videos on website/planet.
>
> == Edubuntu Desktop ==
>
> * Zeitgeist admin integration, allow administrators to get summaries of
> what users have been up to
> * Qimo Gnome session with desktop-profiles
> * Sugar session
> * Remove ltsp-live from menus and add it to boot options when choosing
> installer-only/gnome-session
>
> == Edubuntu Meta ===
>
> * Possibly include one or more of the following: pencil, geogebra,
> pdfmod, new italc, openspell [needs-packaging], calibre, freeciv,
> lybniz, melting, linthesia, gimpbox [needs-packaging], ttf-sil-andika,
> stellarium, planetarium, celestian
> * Replace scribus with scribus-ng
> * Fix depends for qcad-doc on qt3-assistant
> * Work with Kubuntu to fix kde-edu dependencies, currently an entire
> KDE session is installed on Edubuntu that we don't really want since
> it's not configured at all
>
> == Edubuntu website ==
>
> * Feature our users prominently, show the world where Edubuntu is used
> with photos, stories and videos
> * Add an Edubuntu marketplace, showing where Edubuntu support and
> services can be found, including companies that sell pre-installed
> Edubuntu systems such as Zareason and System76 (discuss with Canonical
> folk at UDS)
>
> -Jonathan
>
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