I have mentioned quite a few times that I am not a great one for consensus rule - this gave us Hitler and Russian Communism. What I have presented is my opinion based on my needs analysis for my situation.
It is already clear that there is a multiplicity of needs in the education sector. If Edubuntu is to be "stuffed" with eye-candy, themes, and so forth I do think: 1. These should be optional; with a plain vanilla variety as an alternative for those with nut allergies. 2. The GUI should be lockable by the lab administrator: I worked for 2 years as a language lab administrator in St Andrews in Scotland (Macintosh), and 4 years as the same in the United Arab Emirates (both Macintosh and Windows 98). The lack of "lock down" meant a number of rather difficult things: In the UAE the 'men' at the boys' campus had great fun putting naked ladies on the desktop. The 'women' at the girls' campus spent an awful lot of time putting artistic love messages to both the male and femal teachers on the desktops. The 'men' were also rather good at flicking the 110/230 volt switch on the back and blowing brand-new computers. In Scotland the Chinese, Japanese and Korean students delighted in repeatedly reinstalling MSN messenger and various chat clients, as well as changing the system script system to their respective writing systems. Ultimately, in Scotland, we went for a netboot from a preconfigured disc image - if this were possible with Edubuntu things would be super. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
