Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: Re: [OS:N:] Summing up our discussion so far]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

BMan wrote:

> Correct me if wrong here.  I here you saying you would like Red Hat to
> play more of a Counsulting/Marketing role.  More or less brokers of
> resources that help this project and the open-source community as a
> whole.  Weather we provide added web space, information or contacts
> generally a place where folks come to find answers or links to answers.
> This would be very powerful I think.  I'm sure Drew and his gang have
> plans for the Open Source Now web site that they can't share yet.  My
> guess, and this is only me thinking out loud here, would be our site
> will foster higher communication/sharing among all participants of this
> newly created "open-school-community", if you will.
>

We'll welcome RedHat support in whatever fashion it's offered, I'm sure.  As I'm sure
you've seen from our discussion, we see Schoolforge as a central navigational aide for all
projects dealing with providing free resources for education and as a "watering hole"
where all projects/interested individuals can join together to talk about their efforts
and how to reach their goals.  We don't want to compete with Open Source Now in this, but
we feel (when I say "we," I'm assuming that a sizeable group of people on this mailing
list agree with me) fairly strongly that this coalition needs to be perceived as neutral
and not tied too closely to any particular project of company.  That's why we see a
separate Schoolforge.net domain and website as desirable.

> Maybe a good thought for ya'll would be to only develop an add on to all
> of the distros.  Meaning allow the vendors to provide the main distro
> and ya'll provide a LTSP load for each.   This would minimize the
> bandwidth needs when folks go to download it. They wouldn't have to
> download everything, just the LTSP cd.  Again, I'm thinking out loud
> here and not about the feasibility of it all, so take it with a grain of
> salt. Just a thought and my 2 cents worth, yours?

That's been our plan at SEUL/edu for some time.  We don't want to be in the distro
business.  If we can provide a CD with educational packages on it and each distro can
develop installation scripts for that CD, we think everyone will be best served.

That doesn't mean that we frown on K12KTSP, BlueEDU, or any of the other
education-targetted distros under development.  We just want to make sure that whatever
distro a school chooses, educational apps are easily available and installable for them.

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