tirsdag 15 mars 2005, 16:35, skrev C. Gatzemeier: > Sounds like explicitly dividing and aritificially increasing the > distance between developers and users. Sounds like a bussiness plan. > Is this beneficial for debian-edu?
The science on how to use Skolelinux is anchored in the Scandinavian school of system development in how to bridge the gap between the developers and users. Some of the theory you'll find in this articles: http://archive.cpsr.net/conferences/pdc98/history.html http://www.ics.uci.edu/~grudin/Papers/IEEE91/IEEE91.html So my perspective is what's benificial for the schools, the teachers and the decision-makers to get them to use debian-edu in their organisation. I believe that more schools that are using debian-edu, also recruit more people to the Debian project. If you agreeing that more users, and more developers that follows is beneficial for debian-edu, we should not scare users away by burden them with deemands and expectations of beeing a Debian-developer. It's smarter to make it easier to contribute. I have got some feedback from heavy contributors to Skolelinux that it is somethimes to difficult to contribtue Debian. Then it's unfortunate to reject their work through making contributing more difficult. So in my view, the answer to your question, about what's beneficial for debian-edu, is the other way around. Some of the way that a Debian developer handles documentation widens the gap between the developer and user. Just to get the CD at the Debian web-site you have to click 6 times - and find the right iso-s you have to download. To get it from the Skolelinux-website it's 2 click away. The installation manual in Debian is 120 pages. Installing Skolelinux is explained in 10-18 pages. When making the system more easy to adapt, then you get more users, and then you get more developers. In a way you can In a way you can characterise this as an business plan. But this is a kind of labelling that don't take into account what the teachers ask for, and how to adopt free software in schools. By this kind of labelling, some people could be scared away from using free software. And at the end of the day the free software business plan is expressed in the GNU General Public License: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html - K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
