current Fedora EDU state

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Hi everybody,

it has been quite calm, so I would like to give you a short overview of 
what has happened in the past in relationship to the Edu-SIG.

Well, we had the last meeting some time ago, so here is the log (I think 
I hadn't posted it yet).

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Meetings/2008-05-09

We talked about the different applications to include on a spin. The 
major decision was to release a math-related spin first. Currently, the 
most important thing is to release the spin ASAP. We have already talked 
about the applications we want to include. You might have a look at them 
on the following wiki page. If you have any further ideas, please don't 
hesitate to suggest them.

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Apps

Finally, I played around with some kickstart files and figured out, that 
we'd be able to include all the chosen apps, as well as an KDE desktop 
environment. The most recent problem was, that we don't want to include 
the whole kdeedu package, since it includes way more than only 
mathematic applications. So, here is the bug request for splitting 
kdeedu up.

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446093

Once everything is ready and in rawhide, I might go on creating the 
kickstart file, so that we can submit it to the Spins SIG & Rel-Eng.

All in all, since Fedora 9 is now out, I think we should hurry a little 
bit up. The earlier we publish a spin, the more feedback we'd be able to 
gather. But it's clear enough that such a spin must be still 
production-ready.

On the other hand, we talked in the last meeting about further spins. A 
great idea was to create a spin, which includes the Sugar desktop 
environment (well known from the OLPC). Since this is also in Fedora 9, 
this wouldn't be such a big problem, but there are still those 
activities for use with Sugar missing.

The last thing I wanted to mention is the LinuxTag happening at the of 
May in Berlin. Is there anybody attending it? Unfortunately, I'll only 
be there on Saturday, May 31 (the last day), since the other dates 
interfered with my school schedule. Those who are interested in 
education and who'll be there, please let me know, so that maybe, we 
might sit down for a cup of coffee and talk a little bit about the whole 
thing here... :)

Kind Regards,
Sebastian Dziallas