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Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] Re: ISO]
El Lun 29 Abr 2002 12:41, escribió:
> Stephen C. Daukas wrote:
> > At 08:31 AM 4/28/2002, Matt wrote:
> >> I am speaking for Red Hat here. I'm the tech coordinator for an
> >> education pilot program here in North Carolina. I was just hired last
> >> week to fill this role. I'm a newbie to education, but most
>
> No, I ended up in marketing (wheee!) under Emily Ball. It isn't
> education in the sense of Red Hat training classes (although there is
> some of that) it is education in the sense of K-12 and pre-K schools.
> Our pilot program is getting some Linux initiatives off the ground here
> in North Carolina, and we're hoping to expand past that -- we've already
> been talking with the folks in Oregon about their licensing situation.
> Essentially, I'm here to learn the tech side of getting Linux into
> schools and to help with that.
As a application developer http://croswords.50g.com and http://vsep.seul.org
I can point out some of the biggest problems I can see (in my side):
1. Packaging of .rpm's :
1.1 Many developers only produce tar.gz files, and then don't spend time in
packaging.
1.2 Some apps have difficult into get categorized in dirs, sometimes they
simply are not runnable, yes, for example, "CrosswordsForLinux" is just
a html-javascript page.
2 EDUML:
2.1 Due to the lack of power/time is still pending a way of exchange info
between educational apps. XML may be an add-on on many applications,
but it's simply essential in educational apps, or at least to create more
apps and get more of the existing apps. In this field, data are more
important than code, after all, it's the education the end, the means are
secondary (javascript, gnomish or kde-ish ).
3 Feedback
The natural reaction of people using free software is to forget that authors
would like feedback, me included, I use kmail, for example, and I haven't
thanked to them.
While this feedback may be nonsense in most fields, in EDU is essential ,
because again, it's the data what matters, more feedback, supplying data,
more apps, a kind of cyclic reaction.
4 I'm pessimistic:
Developers will continue producing propietary data and not spending enough
time in their rpm's. And users will continue being users.
5 I'm optimistic:
Random and stubborness, the only two proven forces of nature, have produced
excellences such as emacs, have driven the man to Moon, and have created Java.
Sooner or later, by chance and stubborness interesting edu apps, forged with
the sweat of dedicated and crazy developers will "fill the gap".
6 Don't pay too attention to these points, except to this point.
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MGA