Very well written Warren....very cool! :-) Fedora Education Initiative <fedora-education-list@xxxxxxxxxx> on Monday, April 10, 2006 at 6:28 PM +0000 wrote: >I met David Trask and Matt Oquist at LinuxWorld Boston last week and we >had a great discussion with a few other Red Hat folks about the current >successes of K12LTSP and ways to improve the software and community >around it. This is significant because this is the first time we got >other Red Hat people aware of and excited about the K12LTSP project, >which today exposes Fedora to hundreds of schools and countless >thousands of students worldwide. > >We came up with some objectives and action items from this meeting to >further the goals of both K12LTSP and the Fedora Project. I believe >that we have a huge opportunity here to work closer together and better >the software for the education community. > >Goals for us on this list are mainly development and administration of >Fedora related education initiatives. I envision keeping k12osn as >mostly educator end-user support for now, and we can later reorganize >the community infrastructure around K12LTSP when we have a clearer >picture of what it becomes. > >Strawman Objectives for the next six months include: >==================================================== >- Development discussion related to merging K12LTSP to become an >official supported part of the Fedora Project. This means that more >contributors will help K12LTSP development goals. >- Perhaps K12LTSP can be a "mode" to enable in the standard Fedora. >- Eventually convert K12LTSP to use the Muekow framework. Muekow >potentially aligns with the basic building block goals of the Fedora >Stateless project, so hopefully we can combine resources from multiple >Fedora projects and achieve this by FC6 in a clean and Fedora supported >way. >- Collaborate on Samba and LDAP related integration possibly with Fedora >Directory Server in order to achieve out-of-the-box centralized >authentication between mixed platform school networks (Linux, Mac, >Windows). >- Plan Fedora's involvement in Open Source in Education conferences >coming up, like the ones in ME and NH during June and July. >- Reorganize the community to better support educators in the use of >K12LTSP. >- Design messaging for the promotion of the K12LTSP model. >- Write more documentation to promote the K12LTSP model, and make it >easier to setup a K12LTSP lab. >- Professional production of an educational documentary video >demonstrating the success of the K12LTSP model. A well made video would >make it easier for LUG's worldwide to convince schools to try K12LTSP. > >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list >Please share your ideas, comments, or questions here on >fedora-education-list. > >http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html >K12LTSP Home Page > >Warren Togami >wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx > > > >_______________________________________________ >Fedora-education-list mailing list >Fedora-education-list@xxxxxxxxxx >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School dtrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (207)923-3100
