Fedora EDU: So what?

Greg was writing this almost two month ago in his blog. I agree with him. In that time, there was... very few development taking place in the Education SIG. When I founded the SIG, I was hoping for a kind of initial push, to get people interested in joining and maybe later in contributing to the SIG. Well, it turned out, that I was somewhat optimistic. There were some people posting around on the mailing list, but that was it. It became calmer and calmer, and right now, the SIG itself is in a disastrous state - I don't know the real reason for this, because if I knew, I'd have tried to fix it. It might well be that I, myself, also made mistakes. Sure, everybody makes mistakes - that's why we're humans. I'm not going to deny any of them here. I'm also not going to blame anyone, so please don't feel offended, this is really not my intention; I just really want and need to bring this topic to the surface. The whole thing might also sound somwhat exaggerated to you, but that's really not the way it is! Have a look at the mailing list archive - it's very, very calm.

When Greg posted this statement above, this was already the case. But since then, almost nothing has neither changed nor improved. Work has continued and there were some great surprises, but still: Right now, it's mostly Rex (a huge thank you here!) and me doing the work in the Education SIG - but this might look completely different in the various other educational efforts. It's just sometimes very frustrating... I'm posting to the mailing list, asking for opinions, announcing a meeting, but there comes nothing back! I'm far away for running away - therefore, I'm just not ready. But I'd really appreciate a kind of hint, that the people, who are interested in this topic, if they exist, are still alive. Maybe, we just need a heavy restructuring for all this - right now, there're vacations over here, so let me get another cup of coffee... I'll think about it.

On the other hand, there appeared also the OLPC SIG. Greg did a great job (another huge thank you here!) and I'm joining him and all the others in their efforts concerning the OLPC and the Fedora projects. But I'm also dreaming of a kind of joint project of all those efforts in Fedora related to education (OLPC SIG, K12LTSP, Education SIG)... more to come! By the way: Fedora Education Math Spin preview release is close...