On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ubuntu Developers > > (snip original very, very long e-mail about Edubuntu originally typed) > > Here are some ideas we've been discussing in Edubuntu for Natty and > Natty+1. They probably won't fit in to one single Ubuntu track, so I > opened a new thread on this list (hope that's ok). They aren't all > intended to be implemented and some ideas will most certainly require a > lot of planning and discussion. > > We've never had a shortage of ideas before, usually just a shortage of > people to implement them. Having said that, additional ideas are always > welcome and this list will probably grow a bit in the lead-up to UDS.
This past release has seen the complete packaging of Sugar, originally created for the one Laptop per child project, for Debian and Ubuntu. For the upcoming cycle, 1. I will commit to sponsoring maintainers for Sugar .88 on maverick and releaseing Sugar .92 on natty. 2. Porting the OLPC school server packages to Debian and Ubuntu. > === Installer === > > * More options for desktop environments > * More LTSP options for LTSP options screen > * Fix delays caused in installer by installing almost all available > Ubuntu language packs, then removing almost all of them again except for > the one that the user chose > * New Ubiquity slideshow > > === Edubuntu Server === > > * Create meta-package that could be used on ubuntu-server that installs > and if possible, configures edu-webapps > * Test latest moodle packaging efforts done in Debian and sync > * Assist Schooltool team early in release to get final remaining Zope > dependencies in the archives > * Take a new look at central authentication in Ubuntu and how it can be > simplified, in particular the work done by Opensys > * Investigate other potential server side apps and tools and find a > better way to deliver them (web apps are a pain) > > == Edubuntu Artwork === > > * Update the breathe-icon-theme to remove old (brown) Ubuntu references > and make it more modern, make panel icons more appropriate and in line > with Ubuntu artwork, while maintaining some playfulness > * Refresh Edubuntu colours and update GTK theme, plymouth theme, GDM > login, etc to be more consistent, fix current artwork bugs > > == Edubuntu Documentation == > > * Edubuntu 11.04 installation guide, release notes, release announcement > * Edubuntu LTSP Tips and Tricks Document > * "Glue documentation" between upstream documentation for Edubuntu for > tools such as Pessulus, Sabayon, iTalc, Nanny, etc. Explain Edubuntu > specific differences. > * More instructional videos on YouTube, make better use of the awesome > YouTube community that have already created a bunch of screencasts, > feature videos on website/planet. > > == Edubuntu Desktop == > > * Zeitgeist admin integration, allow administrators to get summaries of > what users have been up to > * Qimo Gnome session with desktop-profiles > * Sugar session > * Remove ltsp-live from menus and add it to boot options when choosing > installer-only/gnome-session > > == Edubuntu Meta === > > * Possibly include one or more of the following: pencil, geogebra, > pdfmod, new italc, openspell [needs-packaging], calibre, freeciv, > lybniz, melting, linthesia, gimpbox [needs-packaging], ttf-sil-andika, > stellarium, planetarium, celestian > * Replace scribus with scribus-ng > * Fix depends for qcad-doc on qt3-assistant > * Work with Kubuntu to fix kde-edu dependencies, currently an entire > KDE session is installed on Edubuntu that we don't really want since > it's not configured at all > > == Edubuntu website == > > * Feature our users prominently, show the world where Edubuntu is used > with photos, stories and videos > * Add an Edubuntu marketplace, showing where Edubuntu support and > services can be found, including companies that sell pre-installed > Edubuntu systems such as Zareason and System76 (discuss with Canonical > folk at UDS) > > -Jonathan > > -- > edubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
