[00:00] <Lns> I guess you could say it's a different approach, yeah
[00:01] <Lns> although a lot of goals and methods are similar, we plan on being a very lightweight util - iTalc, to me, always seemed very klunky and big..
[00:06] <dgroos_> Lns: best of luck.  I was mostly happy with iTALC last year, it sure saved me when I needed students attention :)
[00:07] <Lns> dgroos_, yeah, it's nice to have that kind of blanket control over a network of systems, isn't it? =)
[00:09] <dgroos_> Lns: Yes! I don't blame 9th graders, if I had something cool in front of me, something I was in the middle of or whatever, it would be a tough battle to break away from it and listen to some old teacher talking :)
[00:11] <Lns> exactly =)
[00:12] <dgroos_> Lns: It looks like TCM or Lovecrafts Necronimcal Squid won't be ready for prime time in a month or two?
[00:14] <Lns> dgroos_, can't say for sure, there has been a lot of work on it, and still going on
[00:14] <Lns> it will at least be stable in that amount of time hopefully
[00:15] <dgroos_> Nice.
[00:20] <dgroos_> Lns: e-mail to both the edubuntu user and devel lists when you need testers.  I like to help the communities which have been helping me so much :-)
[00:20] <Lns> dgroos_, thank you!! We will definitely do that when we're ready to release the beast =)
[00:21] <Lns> We're hoping for a rich community of testers, users and devs to help make it a great tool
[00:25] <dgroos_> I think there are lots of people out there, people on the margin who may have limited Linux know-how but want to help but not sure where/how.
[00:26] <dgroos_> I've appreciated watching the work that Edubuntu community has recently made to build/strengthen and focus itself.
[00:27] <Lns> dgroos_, the age old problem of developing FOSS =) there's always a starting point. If you use it and have a problem, you can report bugs..that's how i started getting more involved
[00:29] <dgroos_> Yes!  It has brought me here repetedly as a "helpee", I look forward to the day I can be a bit more of a "helper".  I guess we all have our roles though.
[00:30] <dgroos_> Teaching keeps me pretty busy during the school year!
[00:30] <dgroos_> And...
[00:30] <dgroos_> that brings me back to the question...
[00:30] <Lns> dgroos_, you're a teacher?
[00:31]  * Lns has a forgetful memory ;)
[00:31] <dgroos_> :-)
[00:33] <dgroos_> Yes, and as a teacher my expertise is pedagogy but with the project I'm working on I need to be able to throw around words like LDAP, LTSP, LTS etc :)
[00:34] <Lns> hehe
[00:35] <Lns> a valuable resource to the edubuntu community!
[00:39] <dgroos_> Lns: Once the project gets on it's feet things should hopefully start to take off...
[00:41] <dgroos_> Here's my project blog where I report what I'm doing:
[00:41] <dgroos_> http://groosd.blogspot.com
[00:42] <dgroos_> Lns: Thanks for the chat--in Minneapolis it's dinner time :)
[00:54] <Lns> dgroos_, thank you too! thx for the link
[00:54] <Lns> have a good meal
[15:27] <Edubuntu> english or dutch or oother language?
[15:29] <Edubuntu> i think english
[15:29] <Edubuntu> could someone introduce me to edubuntu
[19:11] <Svenstaro> Anybody here
[19:11] <Svenstaro> ?
[19:12] <Svenstaro> I was at LinuxTag 2009, and while I missed Edubuntu there, I had a look at Skolelinux and Linux4Afrika who shared a booth. They migrated from LTSP to x2go, any thoughts on this?
[19:12] <Svenstaro> I have to say that I didn't get an indepth look in either of those but it looks as though LTSP is quite hacky in comparision to x2go.
[20:36] <atomic007za> hi
[20:39] <atomic007za> I need to know if there is/ what it is called/ how to restrict uses desktops in LTSP
[20:40] <atomic007za> am I in the right channel
[20:40] <atomic007za> ?
[20:42] <bencrisford> atomic007za: Hey :), you might wanna try #ltsp
[20:43] <atomic007za> ok thanks
[20:45] <atomic007za> I also have a edubuntu server installed and would like to know how I go about getting the workstations to log into the server and also have restrictions on there PC
[20:51] <atomic007za> please