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coz_hey guys... where can I download the official desktop background for edubuntu?06:33
LaserJockcoz_: well, the easiest way would be to get the edubuntu-artwork .deb and unpack it I think06:34
coz_LaserJock, ok let me try to find that    thanks :)06:35
LaserJockcoz_: what version do you want?06:36
coz_LaserJock, well I was looking to get ahold of thet world map background on the chaulkboard  image06:36
LaserJockhmm06:37
coz_LaserJock, I know the easiest way is just to install edubuntu :)06:37
LaserJocknah06:37
coz_mm I downloaded the recent pacakge of edubuntu-artwork and tha image is not there06:37
LaserJockcoz_: you might try https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/i386/edubuntu-artwork/0.1.0-5306:38
LaserJockhttps://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/i386/edubuntu-artwork/0.1.0-4806:38
coz_LaserJock, ok  I am there  let me see if its there :)06:38
LaserJockor possibly https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/edgy/i386/edubuntu-artwork/0.1.0-4506:38
coz_LaserJock, mm I think the edgy one might be it   let me try that06:40
LaserJockcoz_: bah, actually you want https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdubuntuArtwork/DefaultDesktops06:40
coz_AH!  yes06:40
coz_LaserJock, :) thanks guy06:41
LaserJocknp06:41
coz_LaserJock, i think the last time I used edubuntu was indeed the edgy version06:41
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Nubaeanyone know if flash support works in 64 bit gutsy yet, or should I stick to gnash15:49
Nubaespecifically does pulse audio work15:49
RichEdNubae: ask across in #ubuntu ... that's more a base operating system question than the edubuntu layer15:50
Nubaewell, I want it to work in my thin clients :-)15:52
Nubaeright now I have gnash installed because that allows pulse audio for pages like youtube to work, but there are many flash apps on other sites that don't work... this is why I'm asking15:54
RichEdNubae: ogra should be able to help ... but he is not well today, and may not be responsive15:55
Nubaeok, I'll look at the mailing list archives, that should give me an answer if anything has changed...15:56
RichEdour LTSP is the latest one from #ltsp though, so you could try to ask over there ... sbalneav or jammcq are good to ask15:56
LaserJockmorning all18:16
stgraberhi LaserJock18:25
LaserJockRichEd, ogra: see my emails to edubuntu-{devel,users}?18:26
calimer-I'm interested in getting some free educational software that lets kids design their own games into edubuntu, does anyone know who I could talk to about that?20:07
=== calimer- is now known as calimer
pygicalimer, you could talk with us :)20:08
pygiwhat do you mean by "design their own games into edubuntu" ? :)20:09
LaserJockcalimer: well, you might just want to look through the software repos20:09
calimerthat sounds great :D20:09
calimerhttp://Kids.PlatinumArts.Net shows it off a bit better20:09
calimerbut basically the idea is that they can create their own 3D worlds in real time20:09
calimerit is already being used in a few schools and more want it in20:09
calimerI just made a new release yesterday so that's why the DL numbers look low20:10
calimerit was late last night actually20:10
calimerI didn't really want to promote it so much before since it had a bit of kid friendly stuff left to go20:10
calimerbut now all of that is set20:11
calimerit could use some more cleaning but it is so far beyond the last release20:11
LaserJockohhhhh20:11
LaserJocksorry, I thought you were asking if any such software existed20:11
LaserJockyou want to get it *into* Edubuntu20:11
calimerif you have heard of cube 2 or sauerbraten, it is that engine kidified20:11
calimeryes20:11
calimerit's free and open source20:12
LaserJockwhat is the License?20:12
calimermainly GPL like20:12
calimerbasically if you do cool stuff to the engine let me put it in sandbox to make it better20:12
LaserJockheh, "mainly"?20:12
calimersome content needs the permission of the authors if you use it in other projects20:13
calimerbut it is all licensed for sandbox20:13
LaserJockhmm, we might have to look into that20:13
calimerno worries and if anything about the license bothers you tell me20:13
calimerI'm definitely up for cleaning it up20:13
calimerI mainly care about getting it out there for kids to use20:14
LaserJockthat's very nice of you20:14
calimerwell this is a personal project of big importance to me20:14
calimerI work with kids for my job20:14
calimerand now the schools that I work at want to get sandbox in there20:14
calimerso I can't wait to show the kids I've worked with for a while now and such20:14
calimerand I have gotten to see a lot of kids personally use it too and it is such a blast20:15
calimeri used it to teach at a kids camp over the summer on how to make games, ages 11-17 and they loved it20:15
calimerand a middle school in illinois is using it and the guy wrote me today that one student in particular is going CRAZY with it20:15
calimerwhich to me is the greatest reward I could have20:16
calimerI even have some screens from 6 and 7 year old sisters who made a little house, it is so cute to imagine them making stuff20:16
wwwojciehit is very intresting20:17
calimerI work at the high school sometimes too and I had girls that were like 17 and 18 that were also really interested in it!!20:18
calimerI was surprised20:18
calimerhere are screens from the 6 and 7 year old20:18
calimerhttp://www.kids.platinumarts.net/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,46/catid,5/20:18
calimerthese are screens from the 8 year old girl I babysat over the summer20:18
calimerhttp://www.kids.platinumarts.net/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,46/catid,3/20:18
LaserJockcalimer: hmm, well it *is* going to need a license statement in the source, preferably in a COPYING file in the top level directory20:22
calimercan explain exactly what that means please20:23
LaserJockwell, there actually isn't anything that I can see in the .zip file that explicitly has the license20:24
LaserJockit's also good to put the license in each source file20:24
calimerit is PlatinumArtsSandboxLicense.txt20:24
calimermaybe I should rename it to license.txt20:25
calimerah interesting idea with the source file20:25
calimerbut honestly I don't really care that much how it is used20:26
LaserJockyes, but we have legal liability20:26
calimerjust that if someone tries to make a commercial product with it for example I would want access to their source so I could use the code to improve sandbox20:26
LaserJockhmm20:27
calimerand credit our project so that it helps it get it out there20:27
calimerbut yeah I'm willing to do whatever license cleanup especially if that is the only thing holding sandbox back from getting in20:27
calimeralso the cube2 engine does have a zlib liscence which is in the src directory20:27
calimersorry it is kind of confusing with the licenses20:28
LaserJockI think we already have sauerbraten in the repos20:28
LaserJockah, but it is in Multiverse, which is the non-free repo20:28
calimersandbox is more focus on the game creation aspects of the cube 2 engine20:29
calimeras opposed to the DM sauer focuses on20:29
calimerand also sauer is not for kids, haha20:29
calimerand it doesn't have carts :D20:29
LaserJockcalimer: do you just use the sauerbraten engine or content too?20:34
calimersandbox is based on the sauerbraten/cube 2 engine20:35
calimeras far as content some of the content is similar but I licensed it from those people individually20:35
calimerand put in appropriate readmes for directories20:36
calimerthe license for sauer/cube 2 is zlib and is in the src directory20:36
calimerbtw members of the sauer/cube 2 community do contribute to the project and look through all the files and such20:37
calimersandbox is not my first project so I'm decently experienced in making sure I have all proper permissions20:37
LaserJockok, so all the sauerbraten/cube 2 stuff is zlib?20:40
calimeryes20:40
calimerand pertains only to the src directory20:41
calimerthere is no actual sauer content taken and "assumed" to be zlib20:41
LaserJockand the rest is the PlatinumArts license?20:41
calimerall textures, models, etc, I got permission for on an individual basis20:42
calimeryep20:42
calimerwell20:42
LaserJockok, now those textures and models, are there licenses for them?20:42
calimerexcept for stuff mentioned in the readmes :)20:42
calimeryes20:42
calimerall included in their respective folders20:42
LaserJockwell, there's a lot of folders ;-)20:43
calimeryeah, was there something you needed to look out for specifically?20:43
calimermainly people asked that if their stuff was used in projects other than sandbox that permission is asked20:44
calimerand some didn't want their stuff to be used commercially20:44
* pygi likes how this looks20:44
calimercool pygi I hope you enjoy it :D20:44
pygihaha, calimer, you just need to make sure it's completely free, and you should be fine to bug somebody to package it up =)20:45
LaserJockcalimer: well, that makes them non-free20:45
* pygi agrees with LaserJock 20:46
calimerhow is it nonfree?20:46
LaserJockbecause for them to be free any of our users must be free to modify them20:46
LaserJockwe cannot discriminate against people who want to use the software commercially and it must be free for modification20:47
calimerI don't think there would be any problems modifying them but if they want to sell it then that could be a problem20:47
calimerthey would just have to use other content to substitute for whatever20:47
calimerI mean they can just find their own texture set20:47
pygicalimer, why cant you replace it with some free texture sets?20:47
LaserJockso, that means that it will be considered non-free for placement in the repo20:47
calimeror make one20:48
LaserJockit can be included in Multiverse though20:48
calimerwe did have some free ones but they looked ugly20:48
calimerand if you know any good ones I'm certainly interested20:48
pygicalimer, make a call on webpage for art folks, I'm sure some would help20:48
calimerI mean this is all a big learning experience for me oto20:48
calimerbut I had to have SOMETHING in there so the kids could make stuff20:49
calimermost of the textures are freely distributable20:51
calimerthis is the main thing that is a little hmm and it is in the texture pack20:52
calimerSome images found in this archive were not created by me. These images were obtained from a number of sources on the Internet that labeled them as "freely distributable". Some of the authors of these graphics may not approve if the graphics are used commercially.20:52
calimerthe texture pack folder20:52
LaserJockright20:54
calimeralso this folder can be deleted20:55
calimerrorschach20:55
calimerhe just says he'd prefer it if you didn't edit his textures20:55
calimernone are being used in sandbox, I left it in there by accident when I was looking for good textures to use20:55
LaserJockalright, well as-is this would be non-free and got to Multiverse20:55
LaserJockwhich means it can be in the archive and users can get it, but it wouldn't be shipped in Edubuntu20:56
calimerI don't know the extent of what that means but it is good that it is getting in in general20:56
calimerwhat is the archive?20:56
calimerand what would it need to be shipped with edubuntu?20:56
LaserJockthe software repository, where all the Ubuntu software is20:56
calimerah so sounds pretty good anyway20:57
LaserJockit would have to be considered "free"20:57
calimerwhat is the specific definition of free?20:57
LaserJockwell, it would be not disallowing commercial use20:58
calimerand btw I think the edubuntu project in general is an awesome idea20:58
LaserJockhere's some better info than what I can say ;-)20:58
LaserJockhttp://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/philosophy20:58
calimerespecially this idea " Linux for Young Human Beings "20:58
calimerokay20:58
LaserJockand http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components20:58
calimerI can see what I can do about catering to that20:58
LaserJockI mean, we definitely prefer "free" but Multiverse would at least get it accessible to Ubuntu/Edubuntu users20:59
calimerI think I'd have a hard time in general with that21:00
calimerespecially since people want to know if the models get used in other projects21:00
LaserJockyep21:00
calimermaybe we could have a basic "free" version and they content packs to DL21:01
calimerthen21:01
LaserJockI'm not gonna tell you what to do, I definitely have sympathy about not wanting commercialization of your hard work, but our users expect us to not change policies ;-)21:01
calimerwell it isn't me21:01
LaserJockI know21:01
calimerit is just SOME content would have to be replaced for a commercial project21:01
calimerso how does that sound21:02
calimercreate a basic free version and then have content packs you could DL21:02
LaserJockwell, you could do a "free" version that was GPL or MIT that'd be just lovely21:02
calimerso all "not used for commerical stuff" would be in thatcontent pack21:02
LaserJockyeah21:02
calimerI think GPL mainly follows what I want anyway21:02
calimerjust any cool stuff they do to the source let me use it to enhance sandbox21:02
LaserJockyeah, the GPL means they have to use GPL, which is fine for you21:03
calimerseperating the two shouldn't be too tough21:03
calimerthe free version vs content pack specifically21:04
LaserJockI think you might get something out of sending an email to edubuntu-users21:04
LaserJockthere are a lot of educators on that list and they might give you some good ideas/support as well21:04
calimerthat sounds awesome21:04
LaserJockalso, the MOTU Games team is sort of the people that'd most likely be interested in working on the actual packaging of it21:05
calimeris that a mailing list?21:05
LaserJockyep, go to http://lists.ubuntu.com21:05
calimerthis sounds great and something I'm definitely interested in21:05
calimera lot of this is new to me and I'm really glad I came to you guys about this21:05
calimerand thanks for the help with it too21:06
LaserJockwell, we appreciate people who care about free software for kids21:06
calimerI think I would definitely fall into that category, haha21:06
calimerthere really isn't any program out there that I know of that makes game making or even 3D designing accessable to kids21:07
calimerso that is really why I wanted to make this and when I played with sauer the lightbulb turned on21:07
LaserJockyou might be interested in http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Development21:08
LaserJockfor games Debian and Ubuntu are collaborating21:08
LaserJockthey would be a good group to talk to about making a free version21:09
calimerI'll have to list of all of this stuff to check out21:09
LaserJockas they are used to specifically working on games21:09
calimergoing to put it in my todo list right now21:09
LaserJockalright, well I need to get back to research21:10
LaserJockand I'm about at the limit of my game packaging knowledge21:10
calimerthanks for all of your help, let's chat again sometime21:10
LaserJockgood luck to you, I'll look forward to seeing this in Ubuntu21:11
calimerme too :)21:11
calimerI was looking through the content and a lot of textures are all set and I would just have to remove a bunch of models and put them in the content pack21:28
calimershould be pretty easy to do21:29
john_shello all, I am trying to install and use kde4 on edubuntu/Gutsy can anyone point me at a howto? I've installed kde4-core and have kde in listed in "sessions" at login, when I log in i see the splash start to load and then I am dumped to the greeter again.21:59
johnnykde 4 is still in devel22:00
johnnywatch for falling bugs22:00
john_sindeed22:00
johnnyi doubt you'll get any help for kde 422:00
johnnyhere22:00
john_sI was wondering if anyone had been trying it out22:00
johnnytry the kde folks directly22:00
john_sahh22:00
johnnynot me22:00
johnnyyou're not expecting kde4 to be as functional as kde3 are you?22:01
johnnykde 4.0 that is22:01
johnnyhopefully 4.1 will be22:01
john_sNo, not necessarily, I am sure that it has a long way to go, but I am interested to see it in action.22:02
johnnya livecd would be best prolly22:02
johnnyif they have one22:02
john_sThey do.22:02
johnnyi'm sure somebody has made one22:02
johnnythat's just my personal opinion .. i dont' represent edubuntu at all22:02
john_sThat's fine. I appreciate your advice. I think I'll keep looking into it yet. This box is a development box and I am interested in seeing what I can get going.22:03
johnnyit won't even make it into hardy22:03
john_sProduction is 7.0622:03
johnnylast i heard at least22:03
john_sOh, that I didn't know. I thought they were aiming for inclusion in Hardyt22:03
johnnyno.. becuase it can't meet parity with kde322:04
johnnyfeature wise22:04
johnnyor bug wise for that matter i'm sure22:04
john_ssure22:04
johnnythey aren't going to release something less functional than what is already available22:04
john_sa fine idea indeed!22:04
john_sok, well thanks again, I am off.22:05
johnnyyou're welcome22:05
LaserJockhmm, too late. I've got KDE4 going in Edubuntu22:06
johnnymaybe he's in #kde?22:08
john_shello all: I am trying to get to the tty  from  my thinclient doing ctrl + alt + F2 (etc) gets me an un-responsive desktop, ctrl + alt = f7 gets me my current (responsive) desktop back.  Currently running gutsy22:48
LaserJockah, you're back22:49
LaserJockdid you get any info on KDE4?22:49
john_souch: I guess I can't switch tty's from inside the gnome environment either.22:52
john_sdunno if someone responded to my query but I had to kill x and restart so I didn't see it if anyone did respond22:53
LaserJockjohn_s: no, I just asked if you got any info on KDE422:59
LaserJockI'm not sure about the tty situation22:59
john_sLaserJock: sorry, I was mucking about23:03
john_syeah I have kde4 installed and it looks pretty cute logging in from the server, haven't gotten it to work on the TC yet. Thats why I am trying to get to the tty so I can see any error messages. None are being logged to the server AKAICT23:04
john_sbrb23:05
john_syikes: what a trip23:33
john_sI think I am realizing that xdmcp is broken in gutsy23:33
john_sboy, I am having one avenue after another blocked here23:33
LaserJockwhy are you using xdmcp?23:33
john_sWell, I confirmed that kde4 is running when I logged into the server itself, but that it fails when I try to log in from a thin client, so I wanted to check out the logs on the TC but I couldn't get a local tty for some reason. Ah Ha! I said, I'll try an xdmcp session and try to run kde4, perhaps I'll be able to narrow the scope of this problem, but xdmcp is apparently broken in Gutsy23:35
john_sI use xdmcp sometimes to manage remote LTSP's on the LAN so its useful to have23:36
john_sHopefully it gets fixed someday23:36
john_sI see there is a project to have kubuntu get the edubuntu treatment, I assume this isn't part of the mainstream edubuntu track?23:38
LaserJockwell, I'd say yes and no23:40
john_sLaserJock: a very even-handed response!23:40
LaserJockI don't think it's an official goal exactly but people are welcome to work on it23:41
john_syah. As I understand it there is only 1 full time developer supported by Canonical?23:41
LaserJockyep, ogra23:42
john_sThat's pretty amazing. Do you have an idea how big the entire paid development team is for Ubuntu?23:42
john_sAnyway it would be nice if we could find a way to support more folks to work on Edubuntu. I suppose there are folks looking into that (grants and what not)23:44
LaserJockhmm23:45
stgraberEdubuntu moving as an add-on on top of Ubuntu will greatly reduce the amount of work and testing that we currently have, as the only part which will be "Edubuntu" will actually be educational apps + artwork23:45
LaserJockI think it's probably around 30 paid people for all *buntu23:46
john_sI see. stgraber: is that where it's heading?23:46
LaserJockactually, it maybe be more than that with recent hires23:46
LaserJockjohn_s: yes LTSP has already moved to the Ubuntu .iso (Alternate Cd I think)23:47
john_sLaserJock: ok. It seems like there must be a lot of edubuntu users out there. I wonder what they represent as a percentage of the ubuntu install base?23:47
LaserJockjohn_s: in the next few weeks the transition should be made to the Edubuntu disks23:47
stgraberthe distro team list I have here is 35 names long, but I know it's incomplete and Ubuntu != Distro team23:47
john_swow, so that means that Ogra will only have to polish the edu related parts?23:47
LaserJockjohn_s: "only" ? :-)23:48
john_stouche'23:48
LaserJockright now I think he's also doing most of the LTSP work, but he is supposed to be transitioned out of that23:48
john_sLaserJock: so does someone else come in or does that greater "ubuntu transition" take care of that?23:49
stgraberyes, IIRC the plan is to have scott to do LTSP integration in Ubuntu23:49
LaserJockjohn_s: I think the idea is to have the Server Team more or less handle LTSP and related server infrastructure23:50
john_shm. Interesting. Here's hoping it keeps getting the kind of attention it has been. I have really struggled with/appreciated the work so far :-)23:51
stgraberall the specs like Active Directory-like infrastructure, Edubuntu auth server/client, ... will now be assigned to the Server team (done with the OpenLDAP integration)23:52
john_sstgraber: interesting again. We use AD for auth, but I hope to eventually move the domain when I feel like the back end tools are mature enough for a non guru to use23:53
stgraberyes, that's the current problem, we have OpenLDAP but what we now need is a good frontend on top of it23:53
stgraber(mass user creation, user/computer management, ...)23:54
john_syeah. Didn't read hat have a front-end that they bought and shared a couple of years ago. hmm I see "fedora-directory-server" that might be it23:55
john_sI wonder where samba 4 is in all this?23:57
stgraberalpha2 is out, I haven't tried it though23:59

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