<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> 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: <a href="http://bit.ly/amFiOO">http://bit.ly/amFiOO</a> and more on what is happening around open source there: <a href="http://www.opinsys.fi/en/mista-on-hyvat-koulu-tehty">http://www.opinsys.fi/en/mista-on-hyvat-koulu-tehty</a> <a href="http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source">http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source</a> 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: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTi=sUSo7TEkshkJjjgp6Fij4KNuwp9q8ejqe6F_N@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">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 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installlucid">this page</a> I had written. I referred him to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installLTSPlucid">this page</a> as well as <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/BasicSetup">the basicsetup page</a>. 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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Caroline Meeks <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:caroline@meekshome.com">caroline@meekshome.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Belinda, You might want to talk to Maine Open 1 to 1 (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://open1to1.org" target="_blank">open1to1.org</a>) 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 <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div class="h5">On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Belinda Lopez <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:belinda.lopez@canonical.com" target="_blank">belinda.lopez@canonical.com</a>> wrote: </div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> <div class="h5">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 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:belinda.lopez@canonical.com" target="_blank">belinda.lopez@canonical.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dinda@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">dinda@ubuntu.com</a> IRC: dinda Office: Galveston, Texas -- Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.edubuntu.org" target="_blank">http://www.edubuntu.org</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.canonical.com" target="_blank">http://www.canonical.com</a> --------------------------- </div> </div> <div> <div> -- edubuntu-devel mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel</a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Caroline@SolutionGrove.com">Caroline@SolutionGrove.com</a> 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax -- edubuntu-devel mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Education Canonical <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:belinda.lopez@canonical.com">belinda.lopez@canonical.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dinda@ubuntu.com">dinda@ubuntu.com</a> IRC: dinda Office: Galveston, Texas -- Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ubuntu.com">http://www.ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edubuntu.org">http://www.edubuntu.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.canonical.com">http://www.canonical.com</a> --------------------------- </pre> </body> </html>