in Physical Chemistry
at the University of Nevada, Reno (that's in the US ;-) ). You can
find more info if you want at my LP page:
https://launchpad.net/people/mantha/
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Jerome Gotangco wrote:
Help would be great. What I was thinking of is split the newletter to
4 major parts
1. Development status
2. Edubuntu Community activities
3. Real-life deployments
4. Deployment/Configuration tips and tricks.
Any more suggestions?
This is just my little
* Anne-Marie Mahfouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-30 16:58:51]:
Hi,
I am Anne-Marie, the KDE-Edu module coordinator (and founder). I am glad
Edubuntu uses our programs and I would like to work more closely with you all
in order to get feedback from teachers, schools and parents to
1)
Bruno Coudoin wrote:
Le mardi 09 janvier 2007 à 14:17 -0800, Jordan Mantha a écrit :
I've started a list of potential candidates [1] that I found trolling
around the web and would really like to get feedback on them and other
packages to include so please take a look and discuss
Gavin McCullagh wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007, Jordan Mantha wrote:
I've started a list of potential candidates [1] that I found trolling
around the web
You might get some extra inspiration here, if you haven't looked already:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Software?highlight=%28
Will van der Leij wrote:
For Edubuntu I think putting up a wiki page with sections for technical,
documentation, artwork, and community (like our weekly meetings) with
links to specs/wiki pages for each item. Sound like and ok idea?
Would it be
possible to get a roadmap for Gutsy
Gavin McCullagh wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Jordan Mantha wrote:
I think most of you are aware that there is a problem in the Feisty
Desktop CD in that when a user installs Edubuntu from the Desktop CD the
educational apps don't get installed. This is do to edubuntu-desktop no
longer
It was reported in #edubuntu this evening that the Offsite Screenshots link
on http://www.edubuntu.org/screenshots is bad. It says it's for Edubuntu
5.10. There is a screenshot tour of 7.04 at:
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=784slide=1
so can somebody update that link?
Sounds haawt. Do it!
-Jordan
On Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 03:04:12PM +0200, Will van der Leij wrote:
Hi Folks,
Thanks to all working on the new website. Been reading the latest
minutes from the last meeting (which I missed, blame my ISP).
Also went through minutes from 6/6/2007 in which we
Chemistry Utils about
putting my effort there instead. Gnome Chemistry Utils is a great suite
of Chemistry tools and is very usable and quite different from Kalzium.
/Edubuntu Talk ;-)
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Rock on! That is so sweet.
I'm curious, of course, about the grades (elementary?) and what apps
the teacher's are stoked about.I'm also wondering about what web
resources and non-Edubuntu resources they are using.
-Jordan
On 8/27/07, David Trask [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Today was a great
Hi all,
I was looking at the current size status of the Edubuntu .isos since
it we aren't having a Tribe 6 today. Here's a summary:
server: 715MB (i386) 687MB (amd64)
server addon: 637MB (i386) 643MB (amd64)
desktop: 705MB (i386) 680MB (amd64)
DVD: 5.1GB (i386) 5.1GB (amd64)
and for
Hi all!
After talking with highvoltage on IRC the other day we decided we need
to get edubuntu.org moving along.
I added some new content at https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/Website
under Website Planning . Let's start some discussion here about
specifics and additions/deletions.
-Jordan
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To help build a bit of a collaborative area for people to work on
Edubuntu artwork the edubuntu-look Launchpad project [0] was created and
the edubuntu-artwork Launchpad team [1] was made a driver for it. This
means that members of that team can make changes to a bzr branch that
holds artwork.
In the last meeting we talked a little bit about a new icon theme based
on Gartoon that is being worked on called GNUtoon [0]. The author along
with Cory Kontros also wanted to make an Ubuntu-specific version called
Ubuntoon [1]. I've done an initial packaging of their efforts and put it
in the
Another issue that was brought up at the last meeting [0] was that we
haven't had any commits to the Edubuntu documentation [1] since 7.10 was
released.
At a minimum we need to make sure that the existing docs are updated to
8.04. This primarily involves working on the Edubuntu Handbook[2]. I'm
Hi all,
Trying to give a status report on everything Edubuntu I've been
doing/concerned with.
First, I dropped rasmol from the ship-addon seed as it's just too old
and is not very user friendly. I would prefer to get something modern
and active like gnome-chemistry-utils or gchemical in it's
Jim Kronebusch wrote:
This probably isn't the appropriate list to post this, but it is a start.
Koha seems to
be the most widely used open source library software, but no distribution
seems to have
it in their repository. Is there a possibility that Ubuntu/Edubuntu could be?
Maybe
even
to
allow people to get an .iso with all the updates since release. It
wouldn't be possible to have a 6.06.1 without the 6.06 :-)
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Hi all,
I was looking into the status of the Ubuntu Education Edition CD for
the upcoming Intrepid Alpha 4 and it seems that denemo is a problem.
In the newer denemo version in Intrepid, Debian has introduced a new
dependency on libaubio-dev. In order to get that dependency we'd need
to move
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM, R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:05 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
I find it hard to believe that any devs with any power or will to improve
Edu/Ubu Buntu actually read this list and take the time to test
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:39 AM, john [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I've noticed that this list is getting less and less active and
questions are simply going un-answered. Has the discussion about
ubuntu and ltsp shifted elsewhere?
superseded, no. underutilized, I think so.
Much of the
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:43 AM, David Ally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Please i need urgent help on installing KDE desktop on my ubuntu machine. I
have all the CDs, Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Xbuntu,
etc.but it seems adding kde desktop using them is beyond my
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Caroline Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm 99.9% certain they used to have a BSD-style license so maybe you
can get an earlier copy of the image.
I've closed the bug unless anyone can find the BSD licensed version.
We don't package non-free software.
Just a
* Building community - development,support,triage,contributor
You can find the agenda at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Community/MeetingAgenda
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On Wednesday, the 5th, at 18:00 UTC the Edubuntu community had a development
meeting. Here are the minutes for those who are interested and/or missed the
meeting.
Attendees:
benoitstandre
dfarning
highvoltage
kaingeo
LaserJock
Lns
morgs
nubae
ogra
rockstar
stgraber
tomeu
LaserJock chaired the
Hi all!
With the help of William Grant I got script going [0] that will allow
us to keep track of the version state of Edubuntu packages in Debian
and Ubuntu. This allows us to quickly see which packages have newer
versions in Debian and gives quick links to developer-oriented
information.
As of
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Caroline Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We get moodle from Debian I presume. What version do they have in
Debian testing or unstable? We can get a merge or a sync of that into
jaunty. The MOTU pages on the wiki are a good place to start and
explain merging,
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Jordan Mantha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As of right now it looks like only kino, moodle, and qcad have never
versions we can pull so if people want to take a crack at getting
involved with Edubuntu development those are a good opportunity to get
your hands dirty
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Yves Combe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Van Assche wrote:
Just to start a little bit of discussion here, first thanks Jordan for
the thorough breakdown of where we are and where we are going. In
terms of the Edubuntu apps, maybe we could list them here in
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Morgan Collett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For jaunty, we need to review our patches and merge from sid since
they have caught up with upstream as far as I know - but Sugar
upstream has started on an unstable release series which should
hopefully lead to a new
Today we had another great Edubuntu team meeting. Here is a condensed
version of what we covered:
== Review of the Edubuntu Strategy ==
Much of the meeting was spent going over the Edubuntu Strategy
Document [0] and related issues including:
* Clarification of educational level
I was looking at Sugar this evening (thanks for the prod David) and
what it would take to get it into Main. Unfortunately I can't see how
we can possibly get it done for Jaunty. The current list of
dependencies we'd also have to get into Main (just for sugar and
sugar-activites) is:
empy
farsight
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote:
A couple of us have been comparing gpaint and kolourpaint4, and the
latter is a far better choice, resembling pbrush a little more closely
and seeming to run more stable. I'd like to propose, therefore,
changing the
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:44 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote:
We are trying to restructure the website as best as possible, and want
to get some feedback for the listed contacts on the community pages
and help pages. Are you still active there? Should we replace the
contact
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah, those are my thoughts and experiences as well. Teaching kompozer
is far easier and more logical taking web design as a full subject
comprised of both programming and design. At a younger age, its
doubtful they'd
Hi all!
I just wanted to point out a great resource for developing and
brainstorming ideas for Edubuntu. The guys at brainstorm.ubuntu.com
have rolled out a new release of their site, which has two nice
categories:
* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/edubuntu
*
I wanted to bring up a couple organizational issues. The first is
getting the Edubuntu Council back on track. We have some people
applying for Edubuntu Membership and should also try to make sure
there's always some sort of leadership group that can take care of
issues as they may arise.
Right
the status is that it still doesn't work. Scott Balneaves
and I worked on it a bit but kept running into bugs. I'm not sure if
he's had a chance to get further since the last I talked to him, but
I've got a few other pressing things before I can look at it again.
Andreas Olsson and Jordan Mantha
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Néstor nesto...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you be more explicit on Sabayons' bugs, please? It's still
possible that I could take a look one of these days, and any comment
would help a lot.
This can possibly David, but in fact, I think that's a very very
important
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, David Groos djgr...@gmail.com wrote:
In the previous e-mail, Jordan, you explained how Sabayon works with user
profiles. Would you say this is the ideal approach? What do others think?
Why did the creators/maintainers abandon the project or I should say leave
the meeting. Feel
free to add agenda items you want to talk about.
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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase s...@lutzhaase.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
I wanted to do a bigger picture so we all knew where we are at all times.
These are the links to my proposal:
http://doubleskill.de/svens_stuff/Edubuntu1.png (first revision)
The meeting was well attended with lots of new people (awesome!),
attendees included:
bencrisford, nestor, Timequeezer, abruptus, Svenstaro, Lns, LaserJock,
asanchez, pygi, Ahmuck, davidgroos, alkisg, jt4sugar, nubae, and some
stragglers.
* Agenda Item: Lns / nubae - Are they in Edubuntu-members
So I was thinking today as I was reading the edubuntu-users thread
about user management scripts that it's a real shame that we aren't
doing more with what Edubuntu users around the world are doing to make
their systems work better/faster/more efficiently/etc. Additionally,
it's very easy for
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haases...@lutzhaase.com wrote:
On 13.07.2009 15:22, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
Hi
This week's Edubuntu meeting is on Thursday, 16 July at 19:00 UTC.
We will attempt to have Edubuntu meetings again every week, if you have
a suggestion
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote:
Does anyone have statistics for the edubuntu.org website and it's wiki ?
Looks like maybe around 4k hits per day on edubuntu.org right now. I
don't have any historical data though. The ubuntu wiki is hit a lot
and Canonical would
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/WikiSite/GrowEdubuntu
Hmm, do we need a whole separate page for Grow Edubuntu? I was
thinking that the homepage would rather point to relevant primary
development pages such as a spec list page,
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote:
Jordan Mantha wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/WikiSite/GrowEdubuntu
snip
So, what is the goal of the wiki homepage !?
I thought
- make clear where you
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote:
Gavin McCullagh wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Scott Balneaves wrote:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-members/+members#active
Heck: Gavin, who answers more questions on this list than anyone, isn't
even a
member!
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote:
Please subscribe to this page:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/WikiSite/Tasks
With the task about fixing up
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/edubuntu , before Richard
left Canonical that page was slated for
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote:
Hi,
Here is some more information on why I (maybe wrongly) moved the
MeetingLogs. I would appreciate a non-emotional and rational discussion
which would lead to a clear task as how I need approach this issue.
Thanks for all the
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:24 PM, David Groos djgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi uwe and all,
Not sure if this is what people are looking for, but about 3/4's of the way
down this page is the log of the meeting-chat.
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/09/11/%23ubuntu-meeting.html
What's this nonsense
Somebody on identi.ca asked me to let you all know that there will be
an Education mini-conference at LCA (linux.conf.au) 2010. If you'll be
in the New Zealand area in January this might be a lot of fun.
For more details check out:
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/wiki/Miniconfs/Education
-Jordan
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HI all,
I've been trying to get the new Edubuntu DVD ready for the Ubuntu
Alpha 6 release, the last alpha for Karmic. [0] I was able to put all
the usual Edubuntu apps into the Livefs part of the DVD, however that
pushed the size of the DVD to 4.5GB . Since a regular DVD is 4.2 GB
and 4.5GB is a
, I hope that answers you question sufficently. Thanks for
the question and I hope you find contributing to Ubuntu/Edubuntu fun
and rewarding.
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Ace has asked for some guidance regarding stuff that came up during
his wiki cleanup project and in particular his moving of meeting logs
and his use of the WikiSite namespace. I would like to call on the
Edubuntu Council to consider his request and come to some conclusion
so his work is not being
Shouldn't this be Edubuntu/Specs/Lucid/LTSPGuiInstall to be consistent
(and not redundant)?
URL aside, I think this would be awesome for the 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx
if people haven't seen the announcement) release of Edubuntu to have a
GUI installer for LTSP so that we can remove that from the
With the release of Edubuntu 9.10 coming closer every day I would like
to throw out a relatively simple way people can be helping make
Edubuntu better: working in the bug tracker. First of all, this
doesn't mean fixing bugs and coding (although that's always wonderful
too). What Edubuntu actually
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Hi
Jordan Mantha wrote:
So given all that, I would like to put out the following for consideration:
1) Address the use of the WikiSite namespace as outlined in Ace's email here:
https
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ace Suares a...@suares.an wrote:
Hi,
As told before, I have no wish to keep WikiSite for real content. It was
just needed (and is needed) for a good cleanup. I agree to - in the end
- only use it for includes etc.
/Edubuntu/Meeting/year/date
I think it's
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Ace Suares a...@suares.an wrote:
Dear Stéphane, Jordan and Jonathan (the EC)
Let me be clear about this: I am totally into a functional EC and
functional meetings, that guide the work done by me and others, as far
as guiding is needed (and it is).
It is
Hi everybody,
I think we really need to get a better meeting time going. And in the
absence of some overwhelming consensus I've got a suggestion. How
would alternating between 13:00 UTC and 22:00 or 23:00 UTC work for
people. The idea would be that everybody should have a reasonable
chance of
Here are the meeting minutes from our October 2nd meeting:
Attendees: LaserJock, alkisg, highvoltage, dinda, nubae, stgraber
Edubuntu Council Business:
* alkisg applied for Edubuntu Membership. After review of his
application, work, and a discussion with him he was unanimously
approved.
Here are the meeting minutes for the October 9th meeting:
Attendees: LaserJock, dinda, sbalneav, highvoltage, alkisg, stgraber
LaserJock started the meeting by reminding everyone that there was
only six days left before Final Freeze in preparation for Release
Candidate.
* Final Freeze prep
Hi all!
I'm making a final call for feedback on the times/days that people are
available for our weekly meeting. The poll is at:
http://doodle.com/hy43ys9yz7q4wt54
In a couple of days I'll report back with the results and we can move
forward with getting one or two meeting times that work for
Edubunteros,
During our last meeting we discussed the state of the Edubuntu Members
Launchpad team [0], particularly the fact that we have about three
times as many proposed members as current members. The vast majority
of the proposed members are completely unknown to the Edubuntu team.
People
Hi all,
For about a week or so the daily Edubuntu DVD builds (
http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/ ) have had a broken
text-based installer. The Live installer worked fine but the
text-based installer gave a fatal error just after partitioning. I'm
happy to report that Colin Watson has fixed
Hi all,
So we had 14 responses to the Doodle poll [0] for good meeting
times/dates. Generally, it looks like people like the weekends, with
both Saturday and Sunday getting the highest responses (7/14). Based
on the overall trend, availability of core members, and the desire to
include the Asian
Hi everybody,
I just wanted to say briefly that I've decided to retire from
Edubuntu development as of the release of Karmic Koala (9.10) on the
29th. It sure has been a great three years working with lots of
fascinating and wonderful people. But even great things must come to
an end at some
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Hi Jordan
Jordan Mantha wrote:
During our last meeting we discussed the state of the Edubuntu Members
Launchpad team [0], particularly the fact that we have about three
times as many proposed members
Congrats the the new Edubuntu Council!
I want to take one last opportunity, as I'm now officially no longer
in the EC, to thank everybody who's been contributing to Edubuntu over
the last couple years and especially to the 6 fine folks below who
stepped up to make an investment in Edubuntu's
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Carter jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Greetings
Below is a summary of what we discussed during tonight's Edubuntu
meeting. If anything is missing or if you have any questions, feel
free to reply to this thread.
Nifty.
snip
* We're losing our sugar
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Gavin McCullagh gmccull...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Scott Balneaves wrote:
On Tuesday, January 12th, I'll be working all day on trying to fix people's
bugs with edubuntu.
If people could look at:
Just be careful with the specs as they are likely linked to Launchpad
Blueprints. Also be aware, you probably are, that it's not only
internal links that matter but also external links. If a page is
widely linked to externally it's probably worth a redirect. Otherwise
I think it's probably worth
My suggestion (for what that's worth) would be to ship the first 3 and
make the rainbow one default.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Greetings
Mads has had some difficulty getting inspiration for our artwork, but he
gave it a bash
I tend to use Inkscape a lot for that kind of thing. It's a little bit
more friendly than GIMP and does raster graphics which often look
nicer. I used it for annotating all my figures in my dissertation.
-Jordan
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:42 AM, David Groos djgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I
Congrats
This is indeed a dream come true for me. I'm so happy to see the
Edubuntu Council and team in general, on such a good track for the
future. Rock on!
-Jordan
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Stéphane Graber stgra...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
I wasn't able to attend the
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote:
12. Moodle
Moodle's maintenance isn't currently that great, imho we should probably
catch up on what's been going on in Debian and merge efforts there.
The last emails I got from the Moodle maintainers
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