Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: Computers in the classroom]

[Chris Ellec <chris@linuxforkids.com>]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> 
> 
> We wouldn't want to sell/distribute such CDs ourselves anyway. It's too
> much of a hassle to put that sort of mechanism in place.
> 

Yes it is, if you don't have the tax/money/paperwork infrastructure.

> 
> We've got a lot of software, seul-based and otherwise, that could be
> useful for an educational cd. Are people working on this already? (I
> suspect people are, somewhere.) If not, would you be interested in
> throwing together a first version of this, Manuel?
> 

For what it's worth, I have been selling the LinuxForKids CD collection
from the web site http://www.linuxforkids.org. I sell it for $5.95,
which just leaves a couple buck of profit after all is said and done
(which I am reinvestng in LinuxForKids). Obviously I am not doing it to
get rich. The whole CD is GPL, so people can get one CD and share it or
make copies. In its present state, it is about 100Mb of source tarballs
and a few rpm, with a copy of the web site. So it is not for linux
newbies.

> I bet we could get Mandrake and Suse and Redhat (among others) to
> include the educational software cd in their boxed sets, with just a
> bit of advocacy, if we can come up with something that's at all useful.
> (Everybody wins.)

I am slowing working towards a more friendly version, with installer and
such, that I plan to offer the big distributions to include with their
CD as you just said.


Chris
http://www.linuxforkids.org