Nope, I've been using edubuntu for years now, and I would hate to see a name change in my lifetime. :P
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 17:40 +0000, kain...@yahoo.gr wrote: > Hello all, > I am a teacher in greece and a have an ambitious dream to switch greek > school labs to Ubuntu. In order to do that, we have form a team by the > name Linux Greek Teachers ( http://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr ), we > lecture about Ubuntu LTSP, writing documentation packaging greek > educational software, building repos and so on... I want to make some > remarks about Ubuntu in Education that came from community work, the > feedback from users or non users, and my personal experience. > > There are many schools around the world but i think most of them are > running windows. But why is that? If we answer to that we maybe make > a > deference: > > Problems: > 1. The ignore the existence of Ubuntu > 2. They have painful experiences with linux. Many computer teachers > ask me if Ubuntu has a graphical intreface (!) (you can imagine what > they think about terminal) > 3. The majority of teachers is technophobic. The fear of the unknown > is a big issue here, you can call it also linuxophobia or > ubuntuphobia. They know how to use windows so that is enough. > 4. If they subpass this fear they have no idea where to start. I use > linux > back from 1998 and it took me 6 months to set up a LTSP server back > in > 2007. Many outdated guides, just for geeks, no real answers to human > beings. > 5. No idea what application to use for school. > > Solutions: > 1. They can advertise from mouth to mouth. How can we accomplish that? > If we supply a complete solution to their problems we stand a chance. > When i am saying about a complete solution i mean, installation guide, > maintenance guide, exercises for students about Writer, Calc, Impress, > Firefox, Kturtle and so on. This material should mobilize even the > laziest teacher. > 2. Video exhibitions about Ubuntu and its school use. Real people are > bored with text we should try a visual way. > 3. Technophobia is solved if we can provide a map of installations > around the world and a real community so he can feel safe. > 4. I have written a guide for Ubuntu LTSP for starters, exersices for > kids for various programs, but i still belive that the installation of > Ubuntu LTSP is very dificult for a non linux user. My opinion is that > ltsp should have a gtk installation interface that can be installed > with synaptic from internet or the educational edition of ubuntu. > 5. A complete list of useful educational applications used on Ubuntu. > > Now lets explain the title of the mail. Where is edubuntu is fitting > here? I think nowhere. Edubuntu is a pack of educational software... > ok so what? everybody still thinks that is a distro. We should kill > the name also for the community teams and start all over again not as > Ubuntu educational edition but as Ubuntu Educational Applications. > Lets call it Ubuntu Education... Edubuntu is already dead and is a > very bad marketing. > > Please comment > Cheers > George > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo! > Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύ ματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail διαθέτει την > καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών μηνυμάτων > http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=gr -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
