Le Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:07:24PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen �crivait: > A single-desktop CD image would be the focus of another Debian > sub-project (debian-desktop). No need to have that focus in
I meant of course a desktop configuration but only with education-related applications. This is what is/was the initial Debian-Education we did here in France. > debian-edu. And having a specific goal and a limited focus in > debian-edu will not stop anyone from making modifications to make it > easier to use debian-edu in new and interesting ways. Agreed, but those modifications should be accepted under the umbrella "Debian-Edu" and not be kept as separate forks ... even if they are maintained separately internally. > everything. If it is to include everything, it is the Debian project, > not a sub-project. Bah, everything "education-related" fits with my view of Debian-Edu. > A limited goal will make it easier for everyone to pull in the same > direction, and will produce a better result. When the initial goal is Not everyone want to follow an imposed direction. > I believe we must choose one goal at the time, and work together to > get there. This will not block anyone from working on their goals, > but it will get more people working on the same goal. Ok, I think we agree on the concept but we have problems expressing it with words that satisfy our meaning. > already present. All that is needed is for someone to spend the time > to find, choose, configure and tune among the 9000 packages in Debian. You're optimistic :-) > Some packages are still missing in Debian and need to be packaged, but > this is the minority. Minority that I didn't even manage to get rolling ... I don't know many people who packaged a new app (listed on the wiki) because of DebianEdu. > Hm, I guess I should stop here. This is long enough now. Is this > something more people would want to work on, or should debian-edu move > in another direction. This is definitely something that I want to see. I have no problem with making it priority one since it includes 95% of the work to make the single education desktop CD that I'd like to have (just to be able to provide a version two here for the french schools who already use the first version). :) Cheers, -- Rapha�l Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
