Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
So, during my stay at the conference in Valencia, I was able to talk to Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical, and discuss the possibility of cooperation between the Edubuntu and the Debian-edu/Skolelinux projects. We were able to clear away a few misunderstandings away (skolelinux do not want to cooperate with canonical, canonical will only cooperate with skolelinux if it is based on ubuntu), and agreed that there actually is good base for cooperation.
I think this is wery interessting for our project. Specialy when we know that K12 are moving from Fedora to Ubuntu, and that the next version of LTSP will be "Ubuntu-ready".
We will start by increasing cross-project communication, by inviting the Edubuntu people to join us at our next devcamp in Bergen (they cover their own expences, so this should not affect the skolelinux budget).
Nice
I hope we can use this opportunity to spread the skolelinux network architecture and solutions, while getting more eyes looking at the common problems and hopefully come up with common solutions to the issues at hand.
Good idea
The two projects have fairly aligned goals, trying to provide the best possible software package for schools. We do have different time schedules, and this will lead to friction when upcoming deadlines make it hard to spend enough time to find the best solution. I believe we can make this cooperation work, if we base it on our will to pull in the same direction when possible, and discuss and explain the different goals when we end up pulling in slightly different directions.
Is it smart to be a "Debian-only" solution for Skolelinux in the future. What if we were less distribution-fixed?
This might be worth a news report of some kind. For that, I had two pictures of the conclusion of the talks, <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/2005-05-05T1954Z-edubuntu-deal1.jpg> and <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/2005-05-05T1954Z-edubuntu-deal2.jpg>.
(The last picture even got the handwaving of Bart Cornelis included. :)
Markus
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