Dear Ben! I did not understand quite good what you wanted to tell me.
There is a special need in a school environment for: 1. very easy installation, more easy than it will be with the future Debian installer. 2. special pre-configured servers and clients as I have mentioned in my last eMail. 3. special software administration tools as other members already have mentioned (the 6-12 and the above 12 thing for instance, network administration, internet access control by classroom) 4. and of course special applications which will only be used in a school environment (like mathematical, astronomical, geographical educational software etc.) What of all these is the project not supposed to do? And who then will develop these things? I only know: If there is a Debian distribution not containing most of these useful things I won't use it. Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Terminal server under Debian-Edu > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:29:30PM +0200, Stefan Padberg wrote: > > I think the DebianEdu project should divide in two branches: one > > concentrating in developing good application software, and the other should > > concentrate on good installation and server software. > > A small clarification here on point one, here. Debian generally does not > develop software (except in support of the project itself: packaging tools, > archive management scripts, etc.) So, s/developing/packaging/ and we are in > agreement. > > Regarding point two, neither of these two things (installation and server > software) are edu-specific needs. So while DebianEdu should encourage the > development of, and make an effort to make effective use of other Debian > subprojects like the debian-installer project and debian-cd (both of which, > I understand, have yet to be integrated,) it should itself be only a > consumer/supporter of these things, and should not make them its primary > work. > > Now, please don't get the idea that I am throwing cold water on your ideas. > These things are certainly necessary ingredients of making a successful > education-oriented distribution. But one of the virtues of being a > *sub*project of Debian is that DebianEdu gets to pick and choose the parts > of the problem of making a high-quality distribution that it is particularly > interested in and skilled at doing, while leaving the rest to the rest of > the project. > > And all of that being said, many of us (Debian developers) wear many hats. > If I can see that helping out another subproject within Debian will benefit > my own project, then I will do so. For example, wearing my "DebianJr > project leader" hat, I have learned the above principle (basically summed up > as "pick an area of Debian to focus on, and stick to it"). And wearing my > "DebianEdu member" hat, I now share it with you, in the hopes that it will > help the group rapidly get off to a productive start. > > Ben > -- > nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [ pgp key fingerprint = 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] > [ gpg key fingerprint = 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
