=== Test the POSSE Education Fedora Remix today! ===
Have you ever wanted to contribute - or get others to contribute - to an
open source education project, but never found the time to set up and
get started? We've got a ready-to-go contributors' (not just code!)
environment for you.
The Fedora Education SIG (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Education_SIG)
announces today in cooperation with POSSE
(http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2009), a Red Hat
sponsored summer program to introduce professors to the open source way
of development, the release of the POSSE Education remix. The remix will
be deployed immediately to the professors at POSSE and has been
developed with the purpose of creating a ready-to-go development
environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also
outside of the Fedora ecosystem in mind. It contains development
environments, tools, documentation, and getting-started resources for
contributing to a number of projects including Fedora, Mozilla, Sugar
Labs and KDE Education and can be used by individuals or by teachers,
students, and classrooms that want to contribute to open source projects
as part of their course effort.
The download is directly available, together with the SHA-1 checksum,
over HTTP from here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/remixes/POSSE/POSSE-Education-1.iso
391a0170e09e68142cbe2c95b62b2b0c6fa628d5 POSSE-Education-1.iso
Being based on the latest Fedora release, this remix provides users with
a stable environment with supplemental features, such as:
* an easy starting point into educational open source projects by
providing pre-selected bookmarks and related IRC channels
* the Sugar Platform (http://www.sugarlabs.org), as seen on the OLPC
- as of 2009/07/15, all required dependencies for building
sugar-jhbuild, a way of pulling and running the latest sugar bits, are
included
* a number of educational applications, such as the KDE Education
Packages (http://edu.kde.org) or software for numerical operations
- a Moodle session (http://www.moodle.org) to showcase an open source
learning management system
* a whole development environment including gcc, python and more, as
well as Fedora's packaging tools
- the Eclipse environment with plugins for Python and RPM, but also
LaTeX and documentation purposes
A getting started guide is also available and contains instructions for
various applications and communities:
https://fedorahosted.org/education/wiki/GetStarted
If you are interested in getting in touch with the developers, other
users or would just like to submit feedback, please join our mailing
list here: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list.
If you are interested in using this for your own development or in your
classroom, or have an open source education project you'd like to see
included in the next version, please let us know and we'll get you started.
If you report bugs in bugzilla, please make sure to make them depend on
our tracker: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=EducationTracker
Thanks,
Sebastian Dziallas for the Education SIG
The headline already states it: If there's anything that you think
should be on the image, please speak up. Quickly.
Otherwise, we'll go for a release within a few days... :)
I haven't had the time to have the latest changes reflected by the wiki,
so you might want to have a look at the kickstart file itself:
https://fedorahosted.org/education/browser/kickstarts/livedvd-education.ks
--Sebastian
This was somehow caught by Mailman, dunno why. Forwarding it to the
list. @ Chitlesh: Thanks, looks really interesting! Maybe we could even
get it on the remix for mid-July... ;)
Cheers,
--Sebastian
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From: Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:13:20 +0200
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Subject: Fritzing for Education spin ?
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Hello there,
There is a new project developed by a German university which is
focusing on simplifying electronic design. It is currently in alpha
version, and I feel it is more for the Education spin that FEL spin.
http://fritzing.org/
A screenshot :
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/fritzing/Screenshot.png
Since FEL is engineering oriented focussing on creating a hardware
product in the end, Fritzing's equivalents gEDA and Kicad are more
suitable . Fritzing on other hand can bring excitement to those high
school students who want to learn electronics.
I have compiled binaries for fritzing, here
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/fritzing/fritzin.2009.07.03.f11.tar.bz2
for F11 32 bit
The SRPM here
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/fritzing/fritzing-0.3.5b-1.fc11.src.rpm
The srpm needs to be fixed, as fritzing can't find the symbols. Try
the compiled binaries instead.
Do you feel it meet your Education Spin's roadmap for F-12 ?
--
Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Electronic Lab Architect
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL
