Not leaving Edubuntu
Steve Rippl
rippls at woodlandschools.org
Tue Oct 6 04:52:03 BST 2009
I'd like to chime in with a positive note as a humble end-user. I'm
Tech Director in a smallish School District in SW Washington and we've
been working hard getting open source software in front of the kids.
Obviously it benefits us getting "free" software, but I enjoy using it
and exposing others to it!
Anyway, Ubuntu/Edubuntu certainly seems to have come a long way in the
last couple years, we're having a lot of success with current LTSP,
Sabayon etc etc and I want to say thanks to all those that do so much.
I know how hard it is to organize a project like this on the backs of
volunteers and frankly it's amazing that it does as well as it does!!
I'll keep listening in and contributing where I can, I know there are
lots of others like me in Education that silently use Edubuntu and are
thrilled that it's there. Greater cooperation with other projects
(debian-edu...) and more active participation from users could obviously
only be a good thing, I'm sure things can gently be steered in positive
directions...
Thanks again,
Steve Rippl
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:06 -0700, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Rather than get into the previous thread, thought I'd start a more
> positive
> one...
>
> 1) I'm not leaving. I've been *sick* for the last week, (something
> flu like,
> I'm hoping it was H1N1, so I'll have immunity to it now :), but,
> still
> slogging away in the trenches.
> 2) As part of my committment, Sabayon is now in a workable state for
> Karmic.
> As well, I've also created a set of patches that (Hosannah!) allows
> for gui
> applies of profiles *by group*. As part of this process, I've
> become an
> upstream developer, and Federico's now accepting my work upstream.
> 3) I'm still plinking away at the handbook. I undertook several
> months of work
> getting the Docbook in place for the LTSP translation. Vagrant's
> done some
> preliminary packaging work for the LTSP docs, and I'm working on
> the
> handbook cleanup.
> 4) I am subscribed to the debian-edu mailing list, and have contacted
> some
> Debian developers. Apparently, they want me to take over the
> Sabayon
> package in Debian as well (!) and I now have an account on alioth
> (I've done
> nothing with this for the last month, been to busy with other
> stuff).
> 5) I've been testing installs with LaserJock's excellent work that
> he's done
> on the seeds that turns Edubuntu into a distro again, as some
> people have
> desired.
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
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> Systems Department | has left the path of wisdom.
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