Agenda Items for Edubuntu Summit - urgent

[Jane Weideman]

Hi all,

If there is more input to the agenda please provide asap, as we need to
finalise it...

Thanks
JaneW

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:14 +0200, Jane Weideman wrote:

> Please review this list, and feel free to offer additional topics, or
> suggestions, as well as any relevant input to the already listed topics.
> 
> Please also give through to the schedule sequence and discussion
> dependencies, and which topics should be addressed first etc.
> 
> We will start with registration and introductions on the Friday.
> 

Available Time and revised proposed Format:

* Friday *
08:30 - 09:00 - Registration and introductions
09:00 - 10:00 - Welcome (Mark Shuttleworth))
10:00 - 18:00 - Edubuntu Sessions TBC  
        18:00 - Close of day - Dinner

* Saturday *
09:00 - 12:30 - Edubuntu Sessions TBC  
12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 - 16:30 - Edubuntu Sessions TBC  

*Sunday*
09:00 - 12:30 - Edubuntu Sessions TBC  
12:30 - 13:00 - Close, and farewell. Lunch and then departure.

> _____
> 
> Agenda Items for Edubuntu Summit
> 
> 1-3 July 2005, London
> 
> 
>       * Skubuntu presentation by Jonathan Carter (and Hilton Theunissen)
>         
>       * Package Selection and Evaluation – how are packages selected and
>         evaluated ? Should involve input from the educators who are
>         targetted to use the packages (Paul Flint).
>         
>       * We need to start looking at the various packages available and
>         evaluating them, as well as classifying them in 3-4 categories
>         such as Junior Primary (6-8), Senior Primary (9-11), Junior High
>         (12-14) and Senior High (15-17) etc. 
>         
>               * This process of evaluation is critical as this is the
>                 most discussed need for the educational change agent.
>                 Rather than looking for packages and evaluating
>                 them, it would be wiser and more effective to build a
>                 mechanism that
>                 allows all the educators out there to evaluate packages
>                 and our job
>                 becomes tabulating and displaying the evaluations. This
>                 is a paramount
>                 importance to the educational community, basically
>                 because all they really
>                 do is to evaluate, it is the stuff of their daily lives
>                 (ever get a bad
>                 grade? :^). Essentially, no evaluation methodology, no
>                 Edubuntu.
>                 
>                 What we may need is a mechanism similar to what has been
>                 built to evaluate
>                 installs. I talked some about this and I feel that this
>                 evaluation
>                 capability should be somewhat user intrusive, but should
>                 allow three
>                 general goals:
>                 
>                 1. You can tell it to buzz-off and you never see it
>                 again.
>                 2. You can tell it what you think on a casual user
>                 basis.
>                 3. You can get seriously medieval.
>                 
>                 The result can be a successful evaluation which is
>                 communicated in the
>                 same way as the install evaluations. The same mechanism
>                 is used (actually
>                 re-used :^), to get this information back to the
>                 evaluation process which
>                 in turn updates the evaluation web site (and
>                 yadda-yadda). 
>                 
>       * Edubuntu Logo and Branding – select and agree on logos to be
>         used (get more final images and graphic files from Hennie)
>         
>       * Edubuntu Documentation (speak to Jerome (jsgotangco))
>         
>               * Added:
>                 trunk/edubuntu/
>                 trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuAbout/
>                 trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuReleaseNotes/
>                 trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuSetup/
>                 trunk/edubuntu/EdubuntuUserGuide/
>                 Log:www.edubuntu.org
>                 Edubuntu documentation added on svn () 
>                 
>               * Colin Applegate's step-by-step install guide ..?
>         
>       * Architectural basics – Oliver Grawert (ogra)
>         
>               * edubuntu can use ltsp, but could be used even without
>                 this architecture, is a thin client architecture by
>                 default desirable ?
>                 
>               * which default desktop environment(s) do we want to
>                 support ?
>                 
>               * how do we want to implement the educational/scientific
>                 software and which sets do we want to support (see
>                 http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu for a initial
>                 list) ?
>                 
>               * which default administrational software will we need
>                 (class management, scheduling etc.) ?
>                 
>               * what do we do about multimedia apps for video/audio
>                 editing, composing ?
>         
>       * "Customer" requirements – Jeff Elkner – Paul Flint
>         
>               * what is our target audience, what are their specific
>                 needs (i.e. would edubuntu-elementary,
>                 edubuntu-highschool, edubuntu-lab metapackages be
>                 desirable)
>                 
>               * are there special technical requirements we need to
>                 cover additionally to the ones listed at
>                 http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientIntegration?
>                 
>               * how much windows compatibility do we need and in which
>                 areas (for example wine pre-configurations for certain
>                 software in vocational schools) ?
>       * Presentation by representatives of other edu distros:
>         
>               * SkoleLinux – Petter Reinholdtsen
>                 
>               * Lliurex - Silvia Caballer
>                 
>               * Interactors - Quim Gil
>                 
>               * (K12)LTSP -Eric Harrison  
>                 
>               * etc
>         
> _______
> 
> This is posted up on the wiki too - if you'd prefer to provide
> your input there.
> 
> www.edubuntu.org
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> JaneW
> _____________
> Jane Weideman
> mobile: +27 83 779 7800
> Canonical Ltd.
> 
> 
> 
-- 
JaneW
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Jane Weideman
mobile: +27 83 779 7800
Canonical Ltd.