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From: BMan <bgray@redhat.com>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] material for schoolforge frontpage

Good stuff.

Regards,
BMan


On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, David M. Bucknell wrote:

> Yes, this is it. I like it. 
> 
> Thank you, Roger.
> 
> David
> 
> Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu> said:
> 
> > Ok, I've put these items into something approximating what we might see
> > on a frontpage of my idea schoolforge site. Nearly all of the resources
> > I'm envisioning don't currently have URLs or any solutions actually
> > available. The road ahead of us is very long, but wide. :)
> > 
> > I haven't put this in pretty html, but that's easy to do once we've
> > decided we like this idea.
> > 
> > What am I missing? Is this a really good start or a really bad idea?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > * Current news and headlines for open source software in education
> >     http://opensourceschools.org/
> > 
> > * Case studies and success stories of open source software in schools
> >     http://richtech.ca/seul/casedex.html
> >     http://www.k12ltsp.org/casestudy.html
> >     http://www.osef.org/
> >     Riverdale, Beacon, etc
> > 
> > * Ready-made educational software packages
> >   * for students (deb, rpm)
> >     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
> >   * for teachers (deb, rpm)
> >   * for school admins (deb, rpm)
> >   * for system admins (deb, rpm)
> > 
> > * Download a CD of school-related software (students, sysadmins)
> >     http://linuxforkids.com/ (students)
> >     http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/K12LTSP/ (sysadmins)
> >     plus 'teachers' if we make a cd for them
> > 
> > * Search a list of in-progress educational applications and reviews
> >     http://linuxforkids.com/
> >     http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/
> >     http://richtech.ca/seul/
> >     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
> > 
> > * Weekly reports on the status of the Linux in education community
> >     http://www.seul.org/edu/reports.html
> > 
> > * Discuss Linux in education -- mailing list (list archives), wiki
> >   http://www.seul.org/edu/
> >   http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/
> >   http://eduwiki.seul.org:8080/ and others
> > 
> > * Educational software development and hosting resources
> >     http://www.seul.org/pub/hosting.html
> >     http://edu.kde.org/projects/
> >     http://www.ofset.org/
> > 
> > * Comprehensive (unsorted) list of free software education projects
> >   worldwide
> >   http://seuldat.seul.org/
> >   (once we compile it from www.seul.org/edu/links.html and others)
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > On the plate later: (somebody want to set up these pages, and the material
> >                      behind them? You could be famous!)
> > * Volunteer to help! I'm a:
> >   Student
> >   Teacher
> >   School Admin
> >   Sysadmin
> > * Press releases and publicity
> >   http://opensourceschools.org?
> >   Red Hat's PR team?
> > * Advocating free software to
> >   * schools
> >     (and even various types of schools)
> >     * to teachers
> >     * to school admins
> >   * governments
> >   * corporations
> > * Donate money to the Linux in Education non-profit (tax deductable)
> > * Find people who are donating hardware in your area
> >   eg computerbank
> > * Curricula for teachers for better using Linux in the classroom
> >   * Ready-to-use curricula
> >   * Help write new ones
> >     http://itp.innoved.org/wiki/freecourse (?)
> >     http://richtech.ca/testbank/ (?)
> > * Search LUG contacts worldwide
> >   Find educational volunteer contacts local to you
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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