John Gay wrote: > > Fabian wrote:- > >IMHO, there are a few important points in such a project : > >- light administration ==> we wan't to remove computing task to teachers > >to let them do what they know : teaching ; so we have to explore > >diskless solutions and other things like this > > I'm currently doing some work with remote X-Terminals. I've got one working > on a > 486 with 8M RAM and using about 120M of hard-drive. > [...]
Do you look at http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/ ? I don't test it, but it looks good... > >- education programs ==> packaging of free educationnal softwares (this > >rejoins OFSET work) > > With Debian-JR's work, and others, it could be as easy as just installing > task-debian-junior, task-debian-edu, task-debian-admin. > Debian-JR provides a good list of software of interest for the young and young > at heart. Debian-EDU can concentrate on more education-oriented software and > Debian-Admin could provide a good, organised admin package to simplify > sys-admin > tasks for people without decades of computer experience. I'm sure there are > other areas that can be used as well. I think the best idea is with the new > task-based installs, several groups can set-up different tasks, and the > end-user > can pick and choose the tasks needed for their application. I agree. > >- Internationalization of Debian ==> for the moment, I don't think it is > >as ready for other countries than a Mandrake distribution for example > >(package description is in english,...) > > I know some of the people who were involved in the Irish language work for > Mandrake. This involved primarily the install scripts. I also believe the > Debian > provides the widest internationalisation support, but I could be wrong. Even > so, > it should be simple to install the mandrake internationalisation files into > Debian, once the filesystem differences are taken into account. This would > just > take people to work on it. Yes, it's important... > In conclusion, I would just like to say I'm very happy to see your commitment > to > Linux in Education. I would be glad to help in any way I can, even though my > skills are limited. If we all do our little part, a lot can get done! > Surely ! B.R. ------------- Fabien SALVI Centre de Ressources Informatiques Archamps, France -- http://www.cri74.org PingOO GNU/linux distribution : http://www.pingoo.org
