Fedora Education Initiative: two months later
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Wed May 31 19:00:44 UTC 2006
So. Let's get an update, shall we? :)
Warren's initial note is a good starting place. I'll make comments and
questions inline.
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Warren Togami wrote:
> I met David Trask and Matt Oquist at LinuxWorld Boston last week and we
> had a great discussion with a few other Red Hat folks about the current
> successes of K12LTSP and ways to improve the software and community
> around it. This is significant because this is the first time we got
> other Red Hat people aware of and excited about the K12LTSP project,
> which today exposes Fedora to hundreds of schools and countless
> thousands of students worldwide.
>
> We came up with some objectives and action items from this meeting to
> further the goals of both K12LTSP and the Fedora Project. I believe
> that we have a huge opportunity here to work closer together and better
> the software for the education community.
>
> Goals for us on this list are mainly development and administration of
> Fedora related education initiatives. I envision keeping k12osn as
> mostly educator end-user support for now, and we can later reorganize
> the community infrastructure around K12LTSP when we have a clearer
> picture of what it becomes.
>
> Strawman Objectives for the next six months include:
> ====================================================
> - Development discussion related to merging K12LTSP to become an
> official supported part of the Fedora Project. This means that more
> contributors will help K12LTSP development goals.
> - Perhaps K12LTSP can be a "mode" to enable in the standard Fedora.
> - Eventually convert K12LTSP to use the Muekow framework. Muekow
> potentially aligns with the basic building block goals of the Fedora
> Stateless project, so hopefully we can combine resources from multiple
> Fedora projects and achieve this by FC6 in a clean and Fedora supported way.
> - Collaborate on Samba and LDAP related integration possibly with Fedora
> Directory Server in order to achieve out-of-the-box centralized
> authentication between mixed platform school networks (Linux, Mac, Windows).
Warren... any update on these technical tasks? How are they progressing?
> - Plan Fedora's involvement in Open Source in Education conferences
> coming up, like the ones in ME and NH during June and July.
We're trying to get someone to attend besides Warren -- who I presume is
going to at least one, if not both.
Also, we're looking to hold a local event here in North Carolina. Hey,
NELS folks -- got any materials we can leverage for a one-day conference
for Technology Coordinators?
> - Reorganize the community to better support educators in the use of
> K12LTSP.
> - Design messaging for the promotion of the K12LTSP model.
This is another piece we're working on funding for. We'd like a full-time
person working on this.
> - Write more documentation to promote the K12LTSP model, and make it
> easier to setup a K12LTSP lab.
See above.
> - Professional production of an educational documentary video
> demonstrating the success of the K12LTSP model. A well made video would
> make it easier for LUG's worldwide to convince schools to try K12LTSP.
Our hope is that we can either (a) send a cameraperson to NELS (still
working on that), or (b) send a cameraperson to our local event (cheaper,
heh.)
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