Edubuntu Revival

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi Steve,

Thank you so much! I have a couple of items to check off internally, and then 
I'll be reaching out to the release team to get the puzzle pieces put 
together.

Again, thank you Technical Board!
Erich

On Monday, January 30, 2023 12:46:19 PM PST Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for reaching out about this initiative.
> 
> We discussed this directly in the TB meeting on Dec 13.  This is a follow-up
> to record for posterity what is needed to get Edubuntu started back up as a
> recognized flavor.
> 
> - standing up new seeds for edubuntu: done now at
>   https://code.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/edubuntu
> - edubuntu-meta package built from these seeds: done
> - clear definition of what the new flavor *is*: I think the metapackage
>   names make this clear enough!
> 
> So from a TB perspective, I don't think there are any remaining blockers.
> 
> There is definitely work that needs to happen together with the Release Team
> to make it possible to build Edubuntu installer images in lunar.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 09:27:01AM -0800, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
> > Greetings Technical Board!
> > 
> > My wife (Amy) and I attended Ubuntu Summit in Prague and she felt very
> > inspired by many of the talks in terms of advocacy and education.
> > 
> > She was a little disappointed, however, that the education flavor
> > (Edubuntu) was no longer around. For some background, she's a 15+ year
> > early childhood educator, and works for a non-profit here in the United
> > States that is a resource for refugee children from Somalia. As you can
> > imagine, Ubuntu is a very strong concept for this organization.
> > 
> > With that, after much discussion, we have decided that, as a couple, we
> > would like to revive Edubuntu with Amy as the flavor lead and myself as
> > the technical lead/MOTU. Luckily, much of the old pieces of the puzzle are
> > already in place, so it's somewhat of a matter of getting access to those
> > pieces, and then re-establishing the flavor.
> > 
> > We have been added to the Edubuntu Council team
> > (https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-council) as administrators, which meets
> > the requirements of establishing an owning team.  However, you'll notice
> > that this team owns nothing. We need to establish ownership of the
> > Edubuntu
> > Developers team (https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev) which is
> > currently owned by a dummy owner owned by the technical board.
> > Therefore, our next steps, we believe, are the following, and correct me
> > if
> > I'm wrong:
> > 
> > 1) Establish Edubuntu Council as owners over
> > https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev which would give us access to the
> > packaging repositories. 2) Gain access to the seed at
> > https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ ubuntu-seeds/+git/edubuntu,
> > which I believe would actually require forking the seed? Basically, it
> > would be silly to have to constantly throw pull requests here.
> > 3) Work on the seed and line it up with Amy's vision
> > 4) Re-establish it as an official flavor
> > 
> > The vision so far is to keep the GNOME desktop and partner with the
> > Desktop
> > Team, providing any assistance there as needed. It would install every
> > edubuntu-* metapackage by default, but also have a tool similar to Ubuntu
> > Studio in that it would also have a meta uninstaller so the system could
> > be
> > customized to not have the tools that it doesn't need for a particular age
> > group (i.e. early learning doesn't need algebraic tools, etc.). Likewise,
> > there would also be a tool similar to ubuntustudio-installer that would
> > allow the metas to be installed on all flavors. However, the advantage of
> > having an all-in-one .iso image is that it saves time during installation
> > and is easier in areas with slow or no internet, and would also contain a
> > few special "customizations" for education (logos, wallpapers, etc.).
> > 
> > I hope we can reestablish Edubuntu as Amy has a wonderful vision
> > for the project, and I know this was one of Ubuntu's general goals in
> > the past.


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Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
Technical Lead - Edubuntu Revival