Fwd: Process of creating an education remix

[Sebastian Dziallas]

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I was talking with Jeff Elkner (who teaches high school in Virginia, has 
been deeply involved with teaching open source for many years, and is 
the coauthor of 
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/html/, among a myriad 
of fantastic open source in education projects) tonight and he was 
wondering how to create a custom Linux image for a class he's teaching 
this fall.

It would be a normal desktop with office applications (openoffice, etc) 
and would be put on a USB stick since the students can't install things 
on their computers. The purpose would be to get students comfortable 
with using open source applications for their work, rather than a focus 
on training developers (though the students will be exposed to basic 
programming in python via https://launchpad.net/gasp).

Is this something that the Education SIG would be interested in doing? 
What would be needed and what would be involved? Nothing set in stone or 
anything like that yet -- just exploring possibilities.

--Mel