Thanks for kicking things off, Warren. Here's a link to the "Open Letter to Educational Institutions" that I mentioned during our meeting last week: http://tinyurl.com/eaa99 (softwarefreedomday.org) > - 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). Single-sign-on is a very significant problem area for a lot of schools, both those that are ready to head directly into Samba/LDAP and those that [would] want to authenticate Linux boxes to their existing Active Directory network. It would be a huge win for Fedora if the ease of authentication configuration (for a Samba/LDAP server /or/ an AD client) compared favorably with Windows. I don't think this would be an appropriate part of a really good solution to the above problem, but Dave and I have worked on a hackish Perl script that eases the pain of configuring Samba together with OpenLDAP, and I mention it here just FYI: http://www.majen.net/smbldap/ Since there's no obvious forthcoming "really good" solution, we're planning to continue to support this script for a while. We're interested in enhancing it to support FDS as well, but no work has yet been done yet toward that end. --matt Warren Togami wrote: [Mon Apr 10 2006, 06:28:35PM EDT] > 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 -- Open Source Software Engineering Consultant http://majen.net/ 718 Fox Hollow Drive Hudson, NH 03051 U.S.A. +1 603.236.1054 (cell)
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