[seul-edu] Re: [school-discuss] introduction to the solar system - mercury and venus

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

mike eschman wrote:
> if we put all our resources to freshmeat,  it would all get checked out and 
> rated.  i have NEVER had a piece rated production-stable on freshmeat flame 
> on me, NEVER!  Over the past 6 years, we have probably tried 3000+ packages 
> for linux ...
>
> the freshmeat guys focus on things like does it work.
>
> what do you think?
We talked about that early on (and in fact tried it), but decided 
not do so for this reason.  Freshmeat's definition of the 
"education" category is something like "primarily or solely 
intended for educational use," where our definition is more like, 
"of use in an educational environment."  For that reason, we 
include many applications that wouldn't be classified as 
"educational" by Freshmeat.  We were concerned that if we stayed 
with the Freshmeat classification we'd miss a large number of 
apps that we should list.  Besides, we include apps that never 
get listed on Freshmeat, since they wait for people to register 
their apps while we search out apps to add to our index.

Now, if you're talking about some agreement with Freshmeat where 
we (SEUL/edu) move all our app listings there and rely on them to 
 maintain the accuracy of the listing while we get to maintain a 
categorized index (so that all the apps are properly listed as 
educational), I'd certainly entertain something like that, but 
I'm not sure it's ever been suggested before.  I know Jeff Covey 
has provided us with some helpful tips and resources in the past, 
though.  I'll see (I've CCed him on this message; Jeff, the 
problem being discussed is keeping the records in the SEUL/edu 
Educational Applications Index current) what his thoughts are on 
the feasibility of this.

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