[K12OSN] Introducing Fedora's Education SIG

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Hi everybody,

I'm Sebastian Dziallas, the lead of Fedora's Education Special Interest 
Group, where we're currently working out a new concept of an educational 
open source solution for students, as well as teachers.

It basically includes a spin - a special flavor of Fedora - designed 
especially for students and teachers, to provide them with an 
encouraging experience to contribute to educational efforts.

So this is about allowing you, your students, to better work with 
upstream projects and even to contribute to them. So we're not providing 
the perfect solution. We're making the tools to create it.

Now, why am I sending this here? Because we need YOU!

We need teachers interested in such solutions, who're willing to talk to 
developers, as it is currently happening in SugarLabs' Math4 project 
[1], which has been started by Greg DeKoenigsberg. Following that way, 
developers will have people to make stuff for.

In the end, it's all about establishing a connection between the 
different involved parties: Students. Teachers. Developers.

That's what we're trying to do.

So if you can articulate problems, on which classes could work, for 
example using our spin, just speak up. If this sounds interesting to 
you, you might also want to head over to our wiki page [2].

Please share any ideas or thoughts you may have with us! Mel, who I 
cc'ed to this e-mail, Warren and me are happy to answer questions...

Best Regards,
Sebastian Dziallas

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education