Hey, I added a few more times for this week to the poll. I was wondering if the times are in utc+1 or utc+2?
-Antti pe 11. maalisk. 2022 klo 18.31 Dashamir Hoxha (dashoho...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > Dear Antti, thanks for your comprehensive answer. > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:33 PM Antti Sokero <asok...@opinsys.fi> wrote: > >> Hello Paolo and Dashamir, >> >> I'm sorry for my belated answer as it has been a winter holiday season >> here in Finland and also some busy days for me this week. First of all >> thank you for contacting us and for sure we can have a meeting, this would >> be nice. For me the best days next would be Tuesday or Thursday somewhere >> between 9:00 - 15:00 (finnish time) and according to the calendar they >> should be doable for my colleagues too. Also Friday might be doable between >> between 10-15. If these are not possible just let me know what would be the >> best alternatives for you and we can see if I can make some time. >> > > For me almost any time is OK. > I am sharing a poll, just to get started, but feel free (anyone) to > propose any other time, or to share another poll: > - https://cloud.fs.al/apps/polls/s/q4VnAw1Ak36ipNvW > By the way, I am sharing this message also with the DebianEdu people. > > By the way, we have proposed a project idea for GSoC2022, under the > umbrella of Debian: > - > https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2022/PendingProjects/BringingFUSSandDebianEduCloser > Debian has already been accepted as an organization in GSoC2022, so most > probably this idea will be materialized as a project. > > The details of the project still need to be discussed and refined, and > hopefully this is going to be one of the topics of the meeting. But the > general idea is to do some work for bringing closer Debian based > distributions that are used in education. I hope that Puavo is involved in > this project too, as a mentoring organization. For example I find Puavo Web > quite interesting and I would like to compare it to GOsa (which is used by > DebianEdu). Maybe Puavo has other interesting features too, that I am nor > aware of, and which could be adopted by the other systems (DebianEdu and > FUSS). > > Our Company Opinsys works on pretty much everything related to schools >> information technology. Our main focus is to make technology at schools >> work seamlessly and help students and teachers to concentrate on learning. >> Our team consists of different people from software developers to teachers. >> The business model is based for the most part on service contracts, but >> also hardware sales. Our service is tailored for schools and our main >> customer base forms from individual public/private schools, cities, and >> partners. Currently most of the schools using our service are located in >> Finland, but in the past year there has been active deployment also in >> Germany. We also have a partner in Switzerland using our technology. >> Overall I would estimate that we have about a couple of hundred schools and >> about 20-30000 devices using our operating system and service. >> >> Typical service contract is based on monthly fees based on the amount of >> devices used or amount of students. This one price can include all of the >> following or parts of it depending on the contract: >> - 1st level support and helpdesk for teachers and students at school >> - educating teacher on use of technology and give pedagogical >> - Local support at schools if >> - Device and user management (Puavo web) >> - Integration of student management to our user management (automatic >> user account creation) >> - Integration of user accounts to 3rd party services (for example to >> login with our puavo user accounts to google, azure, nextcloud, etc.) >> - Our Opinsys OS (Puavo OS) updates and support and development >> - iPad and Android management with 3rd party mdm >> >> Although most of our Finnish customers somewhat have the full service >> model, there is also variation on this. Some only use our cloud services >> and OS and we offer only 2nd level support. This can typically be tailored >> on the needs of the customer and their needs/resources/knowhow/capabilities. >> >> As for hardware sales we also sell different hardware that we have found >> useful and good for schools use. This could range from educational robots >> to projectors typically to fulfill our service and to make things easier >> for schools. The biggest hardware sales item currently is our refurbished >> laptops. We sell and support typically 3 year old business laptops. >> >> Here is one quite recent case from germany >> https://opinsys.com/contact/opinsyss-pre-owned-laptops-become-a-green-export-product-to-germany/ >> >> Puavo is the name of our open source project that has now been developed >> for over 10 years. It is our in-house developed software with the aim to >> provide tools to manage large-scale computer systems at schools. Although >> it has been open source right from the beginning, the main focus has been >> to develop a tool for our own and business needs. There has not been enough >> effort to make it easy to install/deploy your own instance. This can be >> done, but unfortunately there isn't any easy "click and install this app" >> solution available. If you or someone else would be interested in this >> perspective I'm sure we can give guidance on this. But at this point to get >> the whole puavo web infra and OS image building up and running, will most >> likely require "some time and tobacco" , so to speak :) . >> >> Therefore for a quick demo environment I could arrange access to a demo >> organization in our production puavo web instance and give the latest >> production operating system image. This would make it possible for you to >> see how the system works and "tastes" like. To build and deploy it yourself >> is possible, but would take a lot more effort. >> > > The GSoC project that I mentioned above might be a good opportunity to > write down some clean and up-to-date instructions about its installation. > This can certainly be one of the goals of the project. Personally I am not > much interested in just having a "taste" on how it works, I would also like > to know how easy it is to install and maintain it, and of course how to > install and maintain it. > > Best regards, > Dashamir > -- Antti Sokero, tuotepäällikkö Opinsys Oy http://twitter.com/asokero http://www.opinsys.fi/blogi PL 248, 40101 JYVÄSKYLÄ puh. 050 5467226
