Dear Skoletuxe, dear Debian-Eduans,
On behalf of the German Skolelinux team, we wish a happy new year to you all! We thank everyone who supported us in the year 2004. We have to mourn the passing of our friend Ralf Niemand who succumbed to his disease. The fight for free software in education has just begun for our project. It turns out more and more which important strategic role schools play. After having gained a lot of public interest during the passed year, it is time for us to focus on appilications as we change to Sarge. Our german [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailinglist has now more than 200 members and our newsletter more than 130. Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) addresses users in school and at home. Therefore we would like to advertise all the applications that are already available with Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) now, or will be available with Sarge. NX for example makes it possible to work quite easy from home. Some developers expect an increase of publicity for their own software through Skolelinux (Debian-Edu). Owing to Debian this is quite easy. All schoolars, all teachers and all administrative staff should be able to use Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) in their schools and in private. We still need more well documented examples from educational practice. Perhaps an international exchange programme between Skolelinux using schools could be started. No Debian developer in the world should be unaware of Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) by the end of 2005. And as this year ends, we shall have the 100th school using Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) in Germany. Our learning and working-weekends at Guetersloh shall create personal contacts by means of common learning and working, in order to boost the idea of Free Software, but also for social life. Let's have fun and achieve good results! During the next meeting at Guetersloh we'll squash bugs in Sarge according to our knowledge. All Debian Developers are most sincerly invited. These topics are planed: January 14 to 16: Usage of Mambo for Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) February 11 to 13: E-learning with Ilias and Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) March 18 to 20: Moodle as pedagogical-electronical teaching aid Several expert agreed to join us for these weekends and share their knowledge. The topics are of special interest for teachers. Please add yourself to our Wiki, if you would like to participate: http://www.skolelinux.de/wiki/ArbeitTreffen Join us! Regards/Viele Gruesse! Kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID 0xE263 FCD4 http://www.skolelinux.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
