So. Let's get an update, shall we? :) Warren's initial note is a good starting place. I'll make comments and questions inline. On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Warren Togami 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). Warren... any update on these technical tasks? How are they progressing? > - Plan Fedora's involvement in Open Source in Education conferences > coming up, like the ones in ME and NH during June and July. We're trying to get someone to attend besides Warren -- who I presume is going to at least one, if not both. Also, we're looking to hold a local event here in North Carolina. Hey, NELS folks -- got any materials we can leverage for a one-day conference for Technology Coordinators? > - Reorganize the community to better support educators in the use of > K12LTSP. > - Design messaging for the promotion of the K12LTSP model. This is another piece we're working on funding for. We'd like a full-time person working on this. > - Write more documentation to promote the K12LTSP model, and make it > easier to setup a K12LTSP lab. See above. > - 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. Our hope is that we can either (a) send a cameraperson to NELS (still working on that), or (b) send a cameraperson to our local event (cheaper, heh.) --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-education-list mailing list Fedora-education-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list
