Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Carter may be able to help you with some of his tuXlabs knowledge. Many of those installations are pretty remote with limited, or no Internet connections.
Good luck. regards JaneW On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 13:18 -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > Forgive me if this isn't stricly a "devel" question, but it's a bit > long for IRC and there's apparently not a "users" list for Edubuntu > that I can see at least. > > I have a bit of an unusual system design task. I need to create a > software environment to be used for school children in remote Fijian > villages see http://tig.csail.mit.edu/twiki/bin/view/TIG/TaveuniFiji > for some sparse background. > > Basicly neither the student nor the teachers are expected to have any > exposure to computers. The school houses don't even have electricity, > so the hardware platform is IBM Thinkpads with extended batteries and > they will need to be taken to an other location by the teacher for > recharge. > > Edubuntu has a simple install and a nice kid centric GUI and defaults > to having the right software set, so seems like a very nice fit. > > So my questions or areas of uncertainty are what UI changes to make > (if any) for peopel with absolutely zero prior computer contact and no > recourse to anyone who does or the internet, and what issues I might > run into running hte system without network connection. The > applications, particularly the KDE Edutainment suite, are very > transparently networked, to the point I didn't realize quitte howmuch > of the kstars data was nonlocal. > > I'm a little blind as I don't have direct knowlege of the population > this is to serve and my experience is with rather overly experienced > users, I also won't be able to tweak the systems once they're in the > field so there's a bit of pressure to get it right the first time. > > Any pointers would be most welcome. > > Thanks, > -Jon > > > -- JaneW _____________ Jane Weideman mobile: +27 83 779 7800 Canonical Ltd. -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
