RE: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] RE: [why schools don't adopt OSS]]]

["Jason Mellen" <jmellen@cfl.rr.com>]

Another thought is working with the Ximian Red Carpet program. Red Carpet
has a set of "channels" that one can subscribe to each containing related
packages. It would also allow schools to easily update their software. We
could develop a School channel with educational software and materials. I
need to research this a bit more for details but just a thought to put out
there.

jmellen

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Jason Mellen
Palm Bay High School
Webmaster / TSA / PTV / NHS
Department Assistant - Vocational Education


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of Doug Loss
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 6:46 AM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] RE: [why schools don't adopt
> OSS]]]
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> From: Paolo Pumilia <pumilia@acm.org>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] RE: [why schools don't adopt OSS]]
>
> >From Doug Loss, Nov 27:
>  .> From: Jim Thomas <jthomas@bittware.com>
>  .> I still think the community needs to come out with an Education
>  .> Distribution to ease installation.
>  .I agree with Roger on this.  It would be a major effort to keep such a
>  .distro up to date, and would duplicate work that's already being done.
>  .Additionally, you would measurably reduce the chances of any of the
>  .major distros being interested in supporting the the coalition if they
>  .saw it as in competition with them.
>  .
>
> Perhaps SEUL could be of help to schools in this regard through an
> agreement with major linux distributions to add special tasks
> (school-server, school-staff, school-student, etc) to their installation
> disks, whose content (programs and configuration files) are maintained
> by
> a special team.
> Whichever distro people happen to work with, they could recover the same
> starting set up they are accustomed to, by selecting a school-task.
>
> Updating tasks could be problematic, since linux distributions evolve
> at different pace, though...
>
>
> --
> Paolo