Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
This got somehow caught by mailman - forwarding to the list! --Sebastian -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Auto-discard notification Datum: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:05:01 -0400 Von: fedora-education-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx An: fedora-education-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxx
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I was talking with Jeff Elkner (who teaches high school in Virginia, has been deeply involved with teaching open source for many years, and is the coauthor of http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/html/, among a myriad of fantastic open source in education projects) tonight and he was wondering how to create a custom Linux image for a class he's teaching this fall.
Oh cool! :) Thanks Mel for posting this here; we should be able to help.
It would be a normal desktop with office applications (openoffice, etc) and would be put on a USB stick since the students can't install things on their computers. The purpose would be to get students comfortable with using open source applications for their work, rather than a focus on training developers (though the students will be exposed to basic programming in python via https://launchpad.net/gasp).
I see python-gasp is in Fedora, but a bit outdated... if man-power is needed, I could help co-maintaining it. Luke, what's its current state?
Oh, btw Mel: How do we proceed with the education-bookmarks, btw?
Is this something that the Education SIG would be interested in doing? What would be needed and what would be involved? Nothing set in stone or anything like that yet -- just exploring possibilities.
Definitely! We could either help out with instructions how to build a spin, directly incorporate changes in the upcoming F12 Education Spin or even build a specific release (maybe using the POSSE Remix brand?).
Jeff, I'd be glad to help out here! --Sebastian
--Mel
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