education July 2008

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REMINDER: Next Meeting (Tomorrow)
by Sebastian Dziallas 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hi everybody, as announced here [1], I would like to invite you to our upcoming meeting happening tomorrow: Friday, August 1 at 1800 UTC on #fedora-meeting For further information, please refer to the link [1]. You might also be interested in this post [2] on my blog. Best Regards, Sebastian Dziallas --- [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-education-list/2008-July/msg00007.ht… [2] http://sdziallas.joyeurs.com/blog/2008/07/fedora-edu-so-what.html

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Announcing New Meeting (2008-08-01)
by Sebastian Dziallas 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

Hi all, the last announcement was maybe a little bit too short-term, so let us give it another try! The next Education SIG's meeting would take place on: Friday, August 1 at 1800 UTC on #fedora-meeting If you're planning to participate or are just interested and going to be around then, please reply here, so that we can get an overview, whether it makes sense to held the meeting or not. Further information and possible topics can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Meetings Thanks! Sebastian

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REMINDER: Upcoming Meeting (Today)
by Sebastian Dziallas 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Hi all, here is just a reminder for the EDU SIG's meeting, which is going to take place... today, Friday, July 25 at 1800 UTC on #fedora-meeting! ...which is about two and a half hours from now. I'd be happy to see you there - come on in and join us! Sebastian

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New Meeting & Further Progress
by Sebastian Dziallas 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi all, I wanted to give you some kind of update (including announcements), what is happening here right now, as well as in other efforts related to education. === 1. The most recent announcement outside the Education SIG, but still related to education, might have been the foundation of the Fedora OLPC SIG. Greg DeKoenigsberg announced the OLPC SIG here (for all those, who haven't noticed yet ;) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00009.html And here is the wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC I applaud the OLPC project's efforts concerning education, including those related to the Sugar desktop environment and would like to encourage everyone, who is interested, to join this SIG (you'll meet me there, too :). === 2. Lets move to some of our internal topics: I would like to announce a new meeting for... tomorrow, Friday, July 25 at 1800 UTC on #fedora-meeting If you're interested, please join us there. Further information can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Meetings === 3. Our Fedora Education Math Spin... there are also some news concerning this topic! Finally, we moved away from our former plans to release a spin for F9. We're now focused on publishing a spin for F10. But that doesn't mean, that you'll have to wait until the final release of Fedora 10! The spin (or more specifically the kickstart file) is already in the GIT repository. If you want to have a look at it, any suggestions are welcome. Here is the link: http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git?p=spin-kickstarts.git;… We're going to release a preview spin based on F10 Alpha very soon! So stay tuned... work is still in progress! :) By the way: I created also a Feature Page for the spin, which is necessary to get it approved by FESCo later. It is located here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Education Please come up with any ideas or suggestions you may have! Thanks! Best Regards, Sebastian Dziallas

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Sugar on Fedora
by David Farning 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

I would like establish a relationship between Sugar Labs and the Fedora Education Special Interest Group. The Sugar learning environment which was originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child project has outgrown it's roots and has been spun off to Sugar Labs [1]. Fedora packages are making Sugar available for Fedora. I am wondering if there is interest in creating a Sugar Respin within the education SIG... and how we at Sugar Labs can help. thanks dfarning 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page

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Announcing the Fedora EDU Spin Preview
by Sebastian Dziallas 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hi all, the time has come... we've an education spin ready! Okay, it's just a preview, not yet an official spin and of course not bug-free - but I think it's still worth announcing it. Here are the announcements: [1] http://rdieter.livejournal.com/8549.html [2] http://sdziallas.joyeurs.com/blog/2008/07/fedora-edu-spin-preview-is-liv.ht… There are some things, one should know, which are also partly explained in the blog posts: Be prepared! The spin contains a KDE 4.1 preview and therefore uses the repos at kde-redhat. It also only focusses on mathematical apps - so don't expect *all* educational apps on it. But still, if you have any suggestions, questions or ideas, how to to improve, please don't hesitate to speak up. Having that said, here is the link to the download (currently i386 + torrent only): http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/torrents/livecd-f9-edu-math-preview/ Thank you everybody, Sebastian Dziallas

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FOSSED 2008 at Governor's Academy! Educators and developers come together!
by David Trask 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Spread this message far and wide! Register soon! Please register this week....I need to get the count as soon as possible! Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the 2008 edition of FOSSED (Free and Open Source Software in Education) at Governor's Academy in Byfield, MA on August 3-6, 2008. FOSSED has been in existence for 6 years providing incredible professional development opportunities for educators and techies from all over North America. The original FOSSED held each year at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine has been a smashing success and has featured such notable FOSS celebrities as Jim McQuillan (founder of LTSP), Jon "Maddog" Hall, Warren Togami (founder of Fedora), and many more. For the past two years we've expanded FOSSED to another conference held at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). This year we're simply moving a little further south to the beautiful campus of Governors Academy in Byfield MA. http://www.thegovernorsacademy.org This year we're adding to and changing the focus of FOSSED a bit and giving developers an opportunity to come together, work together, learn and really get a chance to find out what's really going on in the world of FOSS in education. Educators and developers coming together. We're pleased to announce that Walter Bender of SugarLabs.org (read more here: http://www.openeducation.net/2008/06/03/walter-bender-discusses-sugar-labs-… ) will be one of our keynote speakers for FOSSED 2008. As the conference registrations develop we'll be inviting many more notable folks from the world of FOSS. We'd like to invite you to join us! Bring yourself...bring a team! Participate, present, sprint, or just listen and learn. We'll provide the atmosphere, the time, and the experience...all we need is YOU! We've made it easy for you to attend. One price includes EVERYTHING! Room, meals, and conference....all for one low price. $495 for on-campus and $445 for commuters 3 days of hands on learning, interaction, and more! For more information and to register please visit our site at http://fossed.blogspot.com or if you have questions please feel free to email me at copperdoggy(a)gmail.com Read more about FOSSED in the October issue of Linux Journal here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9800 Register soon! Got questions? Contact me! --- David Trask FOSSED 2008 Copper Dog Consulting copperdoggy(a)gmail.com (207) 446-2738 David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School dtrask(a)vcsvikings.org (207)923-3100

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