[K12OSN] Fedora Education Initiative Launch

[Eric Harrison]

Simply excellent news!

-Eric

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).
> - Plan Fedora's involvement in Open Source in Education conferences
> coming up, like the ones in ME and NH during June and July.
> - Reorganize the community to better support educators in the use of
> K12LTSP.
> - Design messaging for the promotion of the K12LTSP model.
> - Write more documentation to promote the K12LTSP model, and make it
> easier to setup a K12LTSP lab.
> - 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.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list
> Please share your ideas, comments, or questions here on
> fedora-education-list.
> 
> http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html
> K12LTSP Home Page
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
> 
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