January 2009 Archives

Fedora EDU: A remix. And more to come.

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Okay folks, we have something ready for you! It's just a preview, provided as-is, far away from being official and just intended for testing. So what is it?

You can now get an (unbranded) education remix right here: http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/torrents/f10-education-preview-1.torrent (thanks to rdieter for setting this up!)

Why are we releasing this now? As this is still based on F10, the main purpose is to gather feedback concerning the spin for F11.

You're asking what we've on the spin? We've included more applications for educational goals than before:
You'll be able to evaluate the whole KDE Education Suite including new apps like marble or step. We're also having some graphics applications like Blender, GIMP and Inkscape around - so there's enough space for you to give full scope to your creativity. What else? You get the OpenOffice suite on the CD, as well as a great TODO list called Tasque. And you always wanted to test your brain? Nevermind, just fire gbrainy up!
These are just the most important apps, you can check out more information in the wiki.

As always, feedback is greatly appreciated, so feel free to join us in #fedora-edu on Freenode or just drop a comment on the mailing list.

Fedora EDU: Making progress. A new meeting.

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Progress is underway. Yay!

We're heavily working on creating something on behalf of the EDU SIG for F11. So what's waiting for you? Well, we've done some preliminary work and also thrown a wiki page together here. So far, there're discussion going on, whether to use KDE or XFCE and which apps to include. I've also been working on various kickstart files and already compared the different options. But we want to concentrate a bit, which means... having a meeting! Why don't you join us on...

Wednesday, January 14 at 1600 UTC on #fedora-edu

Wait... that's tomorrow, right? Yep, so see you then! For the record: We also have an agenda, and would be happy to get opinions from others. This is the point where you can influence the development of an educational spin to make it fit your needs - and the one of thousands of teachers, students and pupils around the world!

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