retirement

2009-10-19 Thread Jordan Mantha
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

Final call for meeting time poll

2009-10-13 Thread Jordan Mantha
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

Clean up of proposed Edubuntu Member applications

2009-10-13 Thread Jordan Mantha
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

Re: Leaving Edubuntu

2009-10-05 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:13 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: snip On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM, R. Scott Belford sc...@hosef.org wrote: I'm sorry, David, but you are now moving into the area of flaming, inciting, and trolling.  Unless I missed something, it was made quite

Edubuntu bugs and you

2009-09-27 Thread Jordan Mantha
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

Re: question: Ubuntu code of conduct and licensing of documentation/website

2009-09-18 Thread Jordan Mantha
, I hope that answers you question sufficently. Thanks for the question and I hope you find contributing to Ubuntu/Edubuntu fun and rewarding. -Jordan Mantha (aka LaserJock) -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Education Miniconf at LCA

2009-09-15 Thread Jordan Mantha
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 --

Re: Next Meeting: Fri Sep 11 17:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting

2009-09-11 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Ace Suares a...@suares.an wrote: Gaging the reaction to the meeting schedule, it looks like there is VERY LITTLE interest in edubuntu meetings. If that is the general situation, then I think that is very sad. How did you come to that conclusion? I wouldn't

Re: 0ubuntu12--what is it?

2009-08-19 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:06 AM, David Groosdjgr...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy--for those of you in-the-know, please enlighten me: what is the, for example, 0ubuntu12 in these italc-master updates mean?  It appears that it is the same version of italc-master: 1.0.9.1.  Do I have downloads from

Re: Task for everyone with a Jaunty /LTSP installation

2009-07-29 Thread Jordan Mantha
opportunity to get involved. -Jordan Mantha -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: Please checkout wiki homepage proposal

2009-07-25 Thread Jordan Mantha
I'm going to CC edubuntu-devel as this has really turned into a development discussion. I'd like to move conversations to edubuntu-devel where possible so that we don't distract from user support and/or make people feel unwelcome by lots of developer-speak and project internals. On Sat, Jul 25,

Re: Hiring Edubuntu Staff

2009-07-23 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:05 PM, R. Scott Belfordsc...@hosef.org wrote: For what it is worth, it is now nearly a year since I tracked down every key Canonical employee I could find at Linuxworld 2008, both at the conference and at after-hours events, to communicate two messages: the state of

Re: Links in wiki

2009-07-22 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Ace Suaresa...@suares.an wrote: snip Unfortunately the edubuntu.org page takes ages to load from my location, or will not load at all. Is there some problem with the site? Other sites load quickly. There's no problem with the site that I'm aware of. I don't

how about a community script repository?

2009-06-18 Thread Jordan Mantha
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

Ubuntu Technical Board meeting results

2009-06-16 Thread Jordan Mantha
Today the Ubuntu Technical Board met and discussed a few topics that the Edubuntu Council put forward regarding the future technical direction of Edubuntu. I'm sending a copy of the Meeting Minutes below. I think it's a positive step forward for the Edubuntu community. If you have any questions

Fwd: smartcard reader on edubuntu thin client

2009-04-17 Thread Jordan Mantha
Got this request for support, would appreciate any help. Please CC Kris in any replies. -Jordan -- Forwarded message -- From: Kris krobberec...@dbhaacht.be Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM Subject: smartcard reader on edubuntu thin client To: laserj...@ubuntu.com Hello,

Fwd: Printer Problem

2009-03-20 Thread Jordan Mantha
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bernard Yap yap.berna...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM Subject: Printer Problem To: laserj...@ubuntu.com I cannot use my HP Deskjet D2460 in my Edubuntu 7.04 computer. I cannot find its driver in the list provided by the computer.

Fwd: nic with bootrom

2009-03-05 Thread Jordan Mantha
Ray, I'm forwarding your email on to the Edubuntu Users mailing list, they'll have much better suggestions than me. To the list, make sure to CC Ray as I'm not sure if he's subscribed or not, thanks. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ray Smith r...@compurite.co.za Date: Thu, Mar 5,

Edubuntu Meeting

2009-02-24 Thread Jordan Mantha
the meeting. Feel free to add agenda items you want to talk about. -Jordan Mantha -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

a good place to put ideas for education and Edubuntu

2009-01-20 Thread Jordan Mantha
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 *

Jaunty planning meeting for Edubuntu

2008-10-26 Thread Jordan Mantha
* Building community - development,support,triage,contributor You can find the agenda at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Community/MeetingAgenda -Jordan Mantha -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

gpaint status in Intrepid

2008-09-05 Thread Jordan Mantha
Hi all, Caroline Ford did a blitz-triage through gpaint the other day and after having a chat with her today I'd like to get some feedback on whether we should really be shipping gpaint for Intrepid. Here are some of the issues: * https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209173 - If you try to use the

Re: Sabayon not working in Hardy

2008-03-31 Thread Jordan Mantha
Richard Doyle wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 03:58 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote: snip Has anyone tried edubuntu-menus? Sounds like it would do part of what I want. As far as I can tell, edubuntu-menus was never implemented, but you can do much of what it proposes with alacarte. edubuntu-menus

Re: how activate my pen drive

2008-02-26 Thread Jordan Mantha
R. Scott Belford wrote: David Van Assche wrote: What is unacceptable, to pay Canonical, or the usb bug ;-) The bug is what it is, though leaving it unfixed for so long did nothing to advance the acceptance of edubuntu. Debianedu handled it differently, and EH would have fixed it the same

Re: documentation

2008-02-12 Thread Jordan Mantha
Jim Hutchinson wrote: I am trying to get a conference presentation on setting up an edubuntu thin-client approved and would like to attach a PDF of some setup/install documentation. I know there is some info on the wiki but didn't know if there was anything semi-professional available that

Ubuntoon icon theme

2008-01-27 Thread Jordan Mantha
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

Documentation for Hardy

2008-01-27 Thread Jordan Mantha
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

Re: School Advocacy pamphlet for 7.10

2007-11-21 Thread Jordan Mantha
://lists.ubuntu.com), which I'm also sending this to. -Jordan Mantha -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: how to restrict network printouts

2007-09-06 Thread Jordan Mantha
That's pretty cool info on the print approval queue. Think you could put that up on a wiki page? Maybe under https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuRecipes/ ? -Jordan On 9/6/07, Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, Serdar Dolphin wrote: I work at elementary

Re: Open Office

2007-09-06 Thread Jordan Mantha
in the 7.04 Universe repository). It is a guide written by the OOoAuthors team (http://oooauthors.org). -Jordan Mantha -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: How to remove Firefox?

2007-09-04 Thread Jordan Mantha
On 9/4/07, Karl Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Dienstag, den 04.09.2007, 09:01 -0500 schrieb Jim Kronebusch: Well after all the trouble I had with firefox I switched to Opera for now. However when I went to apt-get remove firefox I had a plethora of

Edubuntu Fix-it-Friday next week

2007-08-31 Thread Jordan Mantha
Next Friday (the 7th of September) the Edubuntu community will be holding a Fix-it-Friday. This is a day for Edubuntu developers and user to get together and focus on crushing as many bugs as possible. The way to find out what bugs are buggin' us are to look at the Launchpad bug report at [1].