Thats very cool David! Is there a list of the educational software that Andalucia has choosen?
Do they have any software for student management/account creation? Is it all LTSP or are there netbooks or other configurations too? Thanks! Caroline On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:06 AM, David Van Assche <[email protected]>wrote: > You should probably be aware that almost all of Spain is using Linux in the > educational sector with Ubuntu being the leading provider in that area. > Every public school in Andalucia (Southern Spain) for example, which include > about 5000 servers and 1 million+ computers run Guadalinex-edu which is a > direct distro copy of Ubuntu + educational apps chosen for this market > sector. > Further East, the region of Extremadura, the entire region uses LTSP based > Debian for all their public schools. In Cataluña, opensuse-edu is being used > for the entire school region, Madrid uses Ubuntu for its public school > system, Castilla and Leon uses Ubuntu too. > The entire country of Portugal uses Caixa Magica LTSP which is based on > Mandriva. > > So for the Iberic peninsula (Spain + Portugal) I would estimate a good 6-7 > million computers running Educational Linux (mostly ubuntu) > > kind regards, > David Van Assche > > P.S. I manage a couple of private schools in Southern Spain running LTSP > Edubuntu. > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Belinda Lopez <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Wow - I've already been blown away by the work being done in the >> Education sector. Ubuntu in schools, just makes sense. Yesterday I was >> directed to this great map showing schools in Finland with Ubuntu >> deployments: >> http://bit.ly/amFiOO and more on what is happening around open source >> there: >> http://www.opinsys.fi/en/mista-on-hyvat-koulu-tehty >> http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source >> >> And next week I'm visiting a local school in Houston, TX that has migrated >> to Ubuntu/Moodle and lots of other open source offerings. The project >> leaders is also the Moodle Core Contrib coordinator so I will ask how we can >> get more folks interested in helping with the technical side of >> Ubuntu/Edubuntu. >> >> I'll keep plugging away at coordinating all this great info and have also >> started updating some of the wiki pages. Great stuff folks! Let's keep the >> momentum going! >> >> Belinda >> >> >> >> >> On 09/01/2010 08:05 PM, David Groos wrote: >> >> Nice! Cool things are happening... >> >> Belinda, I just got an e-mail from someone who was looking to install LTSP >> on edubuntu lucid and was asking what he needed beyond the instructions on >> this >> page <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installlucid> I had written. I >> referred him to this >> page<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installLTSPlucid>as well as the >> basicsetup >> page<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/BasicSetup>. >> From my point of view, a critical resource would be a complete set of >> tutorials on setting up a LTSP lab in a school with Lucid. It needs an >> easily-updatable pathway to create a 10.10 BasicSetup page... With a good >> 'Hub' page Edubuntu would be open to many more tech inclined educators... >> >> Good luck >> David >> >> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Belinda, >>> >>> You might want to talk to Maine Open 1 to 1 (open1to1.org) they are a >>> Ubuntu netbook remix remix that is being used by a couple thousand students >>> in Maine on netbooks. There are also deployments in NH and VT. They just >>> started last year, this year they are working on being more involved in the >>> Ubuntu community. We are also working to put Sugar, which is currently >>> being ported to Ubuntu (Ubuntu Sugar Remix) into this remix also. >>> >>> I am working with the Boston area Ubuntu community and folks from Tufts >>> and Harvard to do a stick based deployment in Somerville where we will give >>> families in housing projects refurbished computers and each person in the >>> family a bootable USB sticks with Open 1 to 1 (or maybe a different mix of >>> software for the parents). We will work with community computer centers to >>> give classes and use these spaces to provide internet access. >>> >>> Hope that helps! >>> >>> Thanks for doing this work. >>> >>> Caroline >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Belinda Lopez < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Greetings all! >>>> I'm working on a short-term assignment to review and update >>>> Canonical's Ubuntu in Education resources. This includes making the >>>> various websites easier to use for end user like students, parents, >>>> educators as well as solution providers and others who want to do >>>> business in the Education market place using Ubuntu and its >>>> derivatives. The Education sector is an important space on many levels >>>> to both Canonical and Ubuntu. I can't make any promises other than it >>>> being a personal goal of mine to help drive the adoption of Ubuntu in >>>> Education at every level so for starters I'm opening up the dialog with >>>> the community on best to use the limited resources Canonical currently >>>> has to develop some new content for the following audiences: >>>> >>>> End users: students, parents, educators >>>> School level adoptions: decision makers >>>> District/regional deployments; policy makers >>>> Solution Providers: those delivering services and hardware to the >>>> Education sector. >>>> >>>> If you have any thoughts on what each audience needs to know please >>>> voice your thoughts here or email me privately. I've also added this >>>> item to the Edubuntu meeting agenda to help further the conversation. >>>> >>>> Also, does anyone have idea of how many schools might be using >>>> Ubuntu/Edubuntu? or if there is some place we can ask people to let us >>>> know about their schools? >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> >>>> Belinda/dinda >>>> >>>> Education >>>> Canonical >>>> [email protected] >>>> [email protected] >>>> IRC: dinda >>>> Office: Galveston, Texas >>>> -- >>>> Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings >>>> http://www.ubuntu.com >>>> http://www.edubuntu.org >>>> http://www.canonical.com >>>> --------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> edubuntu-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Caroline Meeks >>> Solution Grove >>> [email protected] >>> >>> 617-500-3488 - Office >>> 505-213-3268 - Fax >>> >>> -- >>> edubuntu-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel >>> >>> >> >> Education >> [email protected]@ubuntu.com >> IRC: dinda >> Office: Galveston, Texas >> -- >> Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beingshttp://www.ubuntu.comhttp://www.edubuntu.org >> http://www.canonical.com >> --------------------------- >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-education mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-education >> >> > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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