Greetings Below is a summary of what we discussed during tonight's Edubuntu meeting. If anything is missing or if you have any questions, feel free to reply to this thread.
= Meeting Notes = == Agenda == * New Edubuntu Council * Technical updates (FeatureFreeze is early February) * LTSP Live * Edubuntu menu editor * Netbook edition * Artwork * Sabayon Status * Nanny Liaison with other projects (Qimo, Guadalinex, Sugar, ...) Edubuntu website Wiki Hug Day Other businesses ? == Present == mgariepy: Marc Gariepy stgraber: Stephane Graber nixternal: Richard Johnson sbalneav: Scot Balneaves alkisg: Alkis: Alkis Georgopoulos highvoltage: Jonathan Carter mhall119: Michael Hall == New Edubuntu Council == Alkis Georgopoulos, Jonathan Carter, Jordan Erickson, Richard Johnson, Scott Balneaves and Stephane Graber. == Technical == * Stephane and Jonathan is now the new release contacts for Edubuntu Live DVD: * Stephane contacted Colin Watsone with regard to the Live CD Chroot, the plan is to have an LTSP chroot available on the LiveCD ready for use and then a script would run that installs optional packages that are shipped on the DVD (dhcpd, tftpd, etc) and then configure LTSP at the users request. An installer hook would be necessary to configure this for installation as well. * sbalneav notes objections to livedvd lts: 1. It's going to use a lot of space on the DVD that could be used for either langpacks, which brings edubuntu to a wider audience, or could be used for more softaware/content (i.e. moodle plus course content) straber: having the live cd means that we can cut back on alternate installation which saves space 2. The performance is going to suck, and some people may draw inferences between what a livecd gives them versus a "real" ltsp install, performance wise (i.e. "eugh, this sucks we can't run a lab like this") highvoltage: for Live LTSP, the squashfs could be copied to a tmpfs if there's enought RAM available * highvoltage: If LTSP LiveCD installer hooks aren't avhievable for Lucid, having a script that installs or configure it from the Edubuntu menu after installation is another possible option Menus: * Edubuntu menu editor spec: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/Specifications/EdubuntuLucidMenuEditor, mgariepy is currently working on that, the UI is about 85% finished * stgraber has been talking to asanchez from Guadalinex, he will provide some example menus for the menu editor Edubuntu for Netbooks: * Edubuntu for netbooks, add more optional packages for the Edubuntu DVD that would make the target system configured for a netbook (maximus, netbook launcher, etc) through the installer. highvoltage volunteers for spec * alkisg: perhsaps the liveDVD could be configured to install remote systems via netboot. This may need some further investigation. At the worst, a wiki page on how to configure it manually would be good. A script could be included to simplify things. Artwork: * gartoon icon theme has become dated. Kids like it but older people find it too child-like. It could still be included by default but it's probably a good idea to get a new default icon theme. breathe icon theme is quite nice. * Mads Rosendahl did the artwork for the Ubuntu LDM theme, it's really nice, he's willing to contribute more artwork, we should get him to do so Sabayon: * sbalneav has gotten Sabayon to the point where teachers will be able to use it actively, and usefully * In the past two months sbalneav added apply-by-group, fixed all the crasher bugs, integrated it with Pessulus properly, and written a manual for it * sbalneav is now a Gnome developer! \o/ Nanny: * Nanny has been uploaded in the last few days, it's not part of the Parental Controls spec (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-zeitgeist-parental-control-lucid) but it has real code already Archive Re-organisation: * edubuntu-dev group exists, members in this group would get upload rights to edubuntu packages. perhaps we'll have a system where edubuntu-dev members vote on who may become an edubuntu-dev member? Some things have to be done from the Canonical side to make it active, admins will be poked after holidays. Hug days: We need hug days to sort out some long-standing issues! * wiki hug day - 21 January 2009 * bugs hug day - 12 January 2009 * docs hug day - Will be scheduled some other time * nixternal will get edubuntu-docs stuff rolling to prepare for some hugging Edubuntu website: * highvoltage wants to go with Wordpress because he likes it more, stgraber talked some sense into him * highvoltage will update drupal installation * we'll add block for planet Ubuntu == Liaison with other projects (Qimo, Guadalinex, Sugar) == * We're losing our sugar packages, see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2009-December/003194.html * stgraber has a good relationship with Guidalinex through their company Isotrol * highvoltage is assigned for relationship with Qimo Let's blog about areas that need work so that we can attract contributors fot those areas such as sugar. == Next Meeting == * 29 December 19:00 UTC And if you haven't read this far, I'll send another reminder for that meeting to the list :) Happy holidays! -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
