iles, Excellent insights. We need the trademarked term "Just Works" and like you pointed out "cool stuff into schools in a relatively painless way". Installation and integration aspects are a good opportunity for Edubuntu to address. From my (very) limited exposure, the way to bootstrap might be with a proposal, articulating the concepts, an outline of what needs to be done et al and possibly get it approved for next release. May be, we can start with an outline. Thoughts ?
Cheers <k/> > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Miles Berry > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:08 AM > To: edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Web based applications > > Some interesting work's being done at the moment with > integrating a number of different web-based applications > covering a range of e-learning affordances. For example, Bill > Fitzgerald's exploring ways of integrating Elgg and Drupal > (with a bit of Moodle thrown in) - see > http://www.funnymonkey.com/together-at-last, and rapid > progress is being made on Moodle-Elgg integration - see > http://elgg.net/news/weblog/8901.html and, for more techie > stuff, > http://lists.elgg.org/pipermail/development/2006-February/0001 71.html . > > We're hearing more and more about the notion of a Personal > Learning Environment (see eg > http://headspacej.blogspot.com/2006/02/personal-learning-envir onment-model.html > and http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/ but Google will find > lots else) which uses RSS to pull together all the resources > a learner want to use. > > Exciting stuff, but Leon Cych has, I think sensibly, raised > the issue of how to actually get this cool stuff into > schools in a relatively painless way: > "My main concern at the moment is the fact that so many Open > Source systems are needing integration. What is needed is a > toolkit for convincing, installation and integration." > (http://elgg.net/leoncych/weblog/8962.html) > Well, obviously there's cultural and change management issues > here, but I wonder if the installation and integration > aspects might perhaps be something which edubuntu could sort > out in some future release? > > -- > Miles Berry > Deputy Head, St Ives School, Haslemere > http://stiveshaslemere.com > http://elgg.net/mberry/weblog -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel