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nixternalstgraber: pongers00:31
nixternalstgraber: I am around, gonna have dinner...bbiaf00:33
xnoxBug #51040700:39
ubottuLaunchpad bug 510407 in edubuntu-meta "Please consider including Bible Study software" [Undecided,Invalid] https://launchpad.net/bugs/51040700:39
xnoxHello, what is edubuntu-seed inclusion process?00:40
xnoxI've filed bug against edubuntu-meta package and I got redirected to brainstorm.....00:40
xnoxI'm the maintainer of the proposed packages in Debian & Ubuntu =) and I'd love to see them part of the edubuntu seeds00:40
* xnox was under impression seed includes are on launchpad now.....00:41
crimsunxnox: I think Montel perhaps was too hasty in rejecting that bug report00:55
crimsunxnox: nonetheless, it deserves discussion on the edubuntu-devel mailing list00:55
xnoxOk =) I'll send a mail there00:56
xnoxCan I post to it without being subscribed?00:56
crimsunsure, but it'll be moderated00:58
xnoxHmmm. Ok I'll subscribe =)01:03
xnoxcrimsun: sent an email hopefully will get some feedback before the FF =)01:07
xnoxHave a good day everyone01:10
sbalneavEvening all02:11
sbalneavAny edubuntu regulars or council members in here?03:08
sbalneavbesides me and stgraber03:09
sbalneav?03:09
stgraberalkis will probably appear a bit later, highvoltage might be sleeping (he said he'd stay up late but maybe not this late).03:09
stgraberJordan doesn't seem to be around03:09
stgrabernixternal: ?03:09
nixternalyes03:12
sbalneavI'd be interested on your thoughts on the edubuntu-devel thread.03:13
nixternalwhich one? let me guess, bible software?03:13
sbalneavyeah.  See my response?03:14
nixternalyeah, good response03:14
sbalneavI was saying to stgraber, there's currently countries, iran comes to mind, where owning a copy of the bible is illegal.03:15
nixternalreply sent03:16
sbalneavIf we ship it on the dvd, and someone downloads it, and gets arrested, I'd hate to have someone's incarceration on my conscience.  Let alone what legal liability there may be for us.03:16
nixternalwhich is interesting you brought that up...I just read about public flogging in Saudia Arabia for a teenage girl with a cell phone in school, 2 boys were caught reading the Christian Bible and were flogged as well...I would hate to be the reason for such a thing03:17
sbalneavAnd I can't see how we can legitimately say, "Yes, we're shipping the bible but we don't want to include an electronic copy of Dianetics"03:17
sbalneavI think it's a slippery slope that heads downhill very steeply03:18
nixternalthere used to be Ichthux which was a Christian distro based off of Kubuntu, of which I worked on with raphink in Kubuntu and Jordan even pitched in back then iirc...there was that other Ubuntu one, then a Muslim one, and even Satanic Ubuntu, which had a really cool looking GDM screen :)03:18
nixternalspeaking of Dianetics, I need to try and read through that03:19
sbalneavYeah, I'm all in favour of Religious themed distros: but you download them *by choice*.03:20
sbalneavYou know what you're getting03:20
nixternalright03:20
crimsunhonestly, creating a metapackage for it (if one doesn't exist) is the better route03:21
nixternalI might be a christian, but I am pretty open minded....I love open source, so I obviously believe in choice...I try to stay away from the nut job fundamentalists like Jordan :p03:21
nixternalI would talk to raphink, as he was doing a lot of upstream work with christian software back in the day...I am willing to bet he would be done for a nice christian metapackage, which is honestly a good idea I think03:22
sbalneavcrimsun: I think there are some metapackages, and that's a good suggestion for them that may strike a good balance.03:22
sbalneavBut then it's on the archives, and can be installed or not by choice.03:23
sbalneavThe dvd should, IMHO, remain secular to reach the widest audience.03:23
sbalneavan edubuntu-edu-chritian, edubuntu-edu-muslim, edubuntu-edu-zoroastrian metapackage would allow for easy post-install customization.03:25
nixternalI wouldn't do that03:25
nixternalI would do like a "christian-apps" or such metapackage03:25
stgraberAlso something that disturbed me a bit is that currently Edubuntu is being mostly used by relatively young children, so I'm not sure that including religious content (whatever the religion) is very appropriate. I'd consider having these packages installed with an "educational goals" only if it was a ALL or NOTHING kind of choice (as in, learning about religions). Other than that (but that clearly depends on where you've been raised I guess) re03:28
* stgraber didn't remember he typed that much ... ;)03:30
sbalneavI just posted the sugestion of the metapackages to the list.03:32
sbalneavI think that's the way to go.03:33
stgraberok, so these would be meta-packages that'd only be in the archive, not be available as install task and won't be seeded on the DVD, right ?03:33
sbalneavright03:35
sbalneavSo downloading and installing them is an act of Freedom of Religion, combined with Knowledge and Consent (one assumes).03:36
nixternalI personally wouldn't name them "edubuntu-$religion", that isn't really being secular now is it :)03:36
sbalneavWell, if they're in the archive, and not shipped, they can be called whatever.  I was trying to follow the sort-of "metapackages by grades" thing we have going.03:37
nixternalthough, I kind of understand the educational factor behind it, don't think we should even think about meddling with anything religion related03:37
sbalneavBut now we're into implementation details. :)03:37
nixternalright, but I would suggest "religion-$religion" or such03:37
sbalneavsure.03:37
stgrabernixternal: +1 especially as they wouldn't have anything to do with Edubuntu, it's just a set of packages that one can install on top of edubuntu but also kubuntu, xubuntu, ...03:38
sbalneavyeah, that'd be better, prolly, since that way they'd work for Ubuntu/Kubutu/Xubuntu, etc/03:38
sbalneavgreat minds... :)03:38
sbalneavstgraber: I'm gonna roll a new sabayon package right now, you gonna be around for another 1/2 hour?03:40
stgrabersbalneav: sure03:40
crimsun(if not there are two other core-dev present)03:40
sbalneavcool.03:41
sbalneavgimme two shakes of a lambs tail.03:41
sbalneavOk, in my ppa should be a 2.29.5 build04:23
sbalneavtested04:23
sbalneavworks04:23
sbalneavstgraber:04:23
sbalneavcrimsun:04:23
sbalneavWhichever wants to wield their mighty mighty power, have at it :)04:23
stgrabersbalneav: ok, I'll have a look04:23
sbalneavshould have our "updated" packaging of adduser :)04:23
sbalneavNo repeats from last time :)04:24
stgraberhehe ;)04:24
sbalneavI don't know what's been going on with Xephyr, I've seen several updates for it, but it's wickedly fast now.04:24
sbalneavSmokin' Aces fast04:25
stgraberdiff looks good (quickly went through the whole diff, both upstream and packaging)04:26
stgraberI'll be uploading that to archive in a minute or so04:27
stgrabersbalneav: uploaded04:30
* sbalneav hugs stgraber 04:31
=== highvoltage changed the topic of #edubuntu to: Edubuntu Wiki Day! See gobby.ubuntu.com doc: edubuntu-wiki-hugday | Edubuntu - the education version of Ubuntu | http://www.edubuntu.org | wiki: http://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu | 9.10 is released!, see http://www.edubuntu.org/news/9.10-release | Help out with bugs: http://tinyurl.com/EduBugs | LTSP questions? try #ltsp
highvolt1geineternets way broken today :/14:39
highvolt1geogra: I can't edit the blueprint, could you please update https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/edubuntu-profile-and-network-session-management so that the wiki page points to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Specifications/edubuntu-profile-session ?14:40
=== highvolt1ge is now known as highvoltage
jbichaHappy Wiki Day!14:47
highvoltagehi jbicha :)14:56
jbichahowdy, did you make it to Canada yet?14:57
ograhighvoltage, i cant14:58
highvoltageogra: *nod* seems like it's not changable, I pinged #launchpad14:58
highvoltagejbicha: heh, getting the visa is a way too long process, so not yet14:58
sbalneavMorning all15:11
highvoltagemorning sbalneav15:12
sbalneavLooks like post-lucid, ldap authentication's our big bugaboo :)15:13
highvoltageheh, now where have I heard that before :)15:14
sbalneavOf course, it's coming from Scott, who's gone on record as Edubuntu being an embarassment to FLOSS education, and has petitioned RocketMan to shut us down.15:15
sbalneavI always meant to tell him in a way he succeeded.15:15
highvoltageheh15:16
sbalneavHowever, we do need better ldap.  Post lucid, I'll inject myself into the auth-team.15:16
highvoltagesbalneav: yeah having nice centralized authentication has been the high priority on so many wishlists forever now15:17
sbalneavI have the skills the manage the actual LDAP/Kerberos parts.15:17
sbalneavmy problems are:15:17
sbalneav1) doing it "on the cd" the way people want means doing things distro-ey and with preseeds and such15:18
sbalneavand that's not a process I understand.15:18
sbalneav2) Some of the things we may want to do will come in direct opposition to what the server team wants, which means we'll be totally on our own for supporting it.15:19
sbalneavAnd currently, we've got like, what, 6 active devs?15:20
sbalneavHow many of the rest of you know ldap inside and out?15:20
highvoltageldap scares the living daylights out of me15:20
stgraberhighvoltage: I guess you'll have to get used to it ;)15:21
stgrabersbalneav: I do LDAP + kerberos15:22
sbalneavyeah, so there's like 2 of us. :(15:22
sbalneavIt's a biiiig task15:22
sbalneavstgraber: and you know how hard some LDAP problems can be to fix :)15:23
stgrabersbalneav: yeah .. OpenLDAP isn't so bad though, it's a lot harder when you have to deal with eDirectory or AD ;)15:23
highvoltagestgraber: heh, I always accepted that I'll have to at some point :)15:24
sbalneavWell, and that's the problem.15:24
sbalneavTHAT's what people are going to want us to deal with.15:25
sbalneavI don't even *have* AD, so I'm completely useless in that regard, all my work's against OpenLDAP.15:25
stgraberyeah, and you simply can't make a tool that will work with all three of them15:26
sbalneavAnd people keep making noises about how goot 389 (formerly fedora directory server) is.15:26
stgraberwe have developped an account provisioning system at Revolution Linux which is/was used by the Canadian Space Agency (they stopped the project after a change in management) and it was a real pain to work with AD to add/remove/move accounts there15:26
stgraberso we pretty much have a plugin for each kind of directory and one ldap.conf for each of them too as attributes don't have the same name ...15:27
stgraberthat and the fact that you absolutely need caching at least for eDirectory or you'll make it crash with relatively standard load15:27
highvoltageand that's why I hide under my bed when someone mentions authentication :)15:28
sbalneavyeah.  LDAP's "non trivial"15:29
sbalneavand the use cases that Scott points out have all "simplified the problem"15:29
sbalneavWhich, quite frankly, I think is the right approach.15:29
sbalneavTake Debian-edu15:30
sbalneavthey pre-seed a schema15:30
sbalneavall config files are setup for that schema15:30
sbalneavand they offer two installation modes15:30
sbalneav1) regular debian-edu ltsp server15:30
highvoltageInternal Server Error15:31
highvoltageyay I crashed the ubuntu wiki15:31
highvoltageoh it's back again :)15:31
sbalneav2) an "NFS + LDAP + kerb" auth server15:31
sbalneavso, you install one box on your network this way15:31
sbalneavthen just point all the rest of your boxes to the first one.15:31
sbalneavEverything "just works"15:32
sbalneavand if you say, "well, I want to auth off an AD server"15:32
sbalneavthey basically just point you to some wiki pages and say "off you go, then"15:32
sbalneavSo, they solve the 60% use case15:32
highvoltageoption 2 sounds very useful to many people15:32
sbalneavand don't care about the 40%15:33
sbalneavSo, they have something15:33
sbalneavUbuntu keeps trying to solve the 100% case15:33
mhall119|workhaving a pre-assembled NFS + LDAP + Kerb would be a wonderful solution for more than just schools15:33
sbalneavand after 3 years or so, there's not a lot to show for it.15:33
sbalneavmhall119|work: Yes, we KNOW :)15:33
highvoltagestgraber: what's OAPS?15:34
sbalneavMy vote would be:15:34
highvoltagestgraber: just came across it on the bottem of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdubuntuMassMaintenance15:34
sbalneav1) steal^H^H^H^Huse as much of what debian-edu does as we can15:34
sbalneav2) ???15:34
sbalneav3) PROFIT :)15:34
highvoltagestgraber: oops, nevermind, I misread OpenRevolution for RevolutionLinux15:34
sbalneavThen we'd have SOMETHING.15:35
sbalneavThe advantage is, as we improve/adapt debian-edu stuff, if we fix bugs, we can upstream it back to them.15:36
sbalneavI idle in debian-edu all the time, and anything I can do to foster more intercommunication with us and them I think's a win for both of us.15:37
highvoltageLaserJock may also have some history of previous attempts that may be useful15:40
LaserJockthat's why I stopped in15:40
highvoltageof course!15:40
highvoltageLaserJock: sbalneav is attacking the authentication/LDAP issues again for Lucid+115:41
LaserJockI see15:41
sbalneavWell, I took a prettu hard look about 6 months ago at the debian-edu stuff15:43
LaserJockthis is one of the things where I thought it'd be helpful to have a roadmap, some sort of strategy doc, etc.15:43
LaserJockto be able to look at the scope15:44
sbalneavagreed.15:44
LaserJockand what Edubuntu can and can't do and what it should and shouldn't do15:44
sbalneavWe had one at one point, didn't we?15:44
LaserJockkinda15:44
sbalneavon the wikly?15:44
LaserJockI never liked it :-)15:44
sbalneavlol15:44
LaserJockit just didn't do it for me15:44
LaserJockI was missing something15:45
LaserJockpart of it is, nobody really agrees on what Edubuntu *should* be15:45
highvoltagesbalneav: what happened to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdubuntuNetworkAuthServer ?15:45
LaserJockthe scope just balloons too quickly15:45
highvoltageLaserJock: I agree!15:45
LaserJockso LDAP/auth is one of those things where it's at an interface between Server and Edubuntu15:46
sbalneavhighvoltage: yeah, let's resurrect that page.15:46
LaserJockand the question is whether Edubuntu needs to have a secondary, cheerleading type role15:46
LaserJockor whether Edubuntu should lead the charge15:46
sbalneav<rant>15:47
sbalneavOne of the biggest problems we've had, since day 1, is lots of people (present company excluded) TALKING about what they want edubuntu to be15:47
LaserJockI would include the present company ;-)15:48
sbalneavBut nobody (present company excluded) Doing any freaking work to do the work.15:48
sbalneavLaserJock: Nah, you did your time.  You worked.15:48
sbalneavPersonally, I think it's time we just start saying "OK, you want feature X?  Here's how we're going to do it"15:49
LaserJockI always attributed it to 1) unclear, unfocused goals/targets/roadmap and 2) lack of energy from the top15:49
sbalneav"Oh, don't like it that way?  That's fine, then YOU do it!"15:49
sbalneav"Oh, you say you don't have time/programming skills to do it?  Then get out of the way and let us get SOMETHING done!"15:50
LaserJockI always like being strategic about things15:50
sbalneavthat's how other distro's are getting the problems solved.15:50
LaserJockso that everything we do is towards a specific, measurable goal15:50
LaserJockI think probably the biggest problem with Edubuntu is that the majority of users we hear from only care about LTSP15:51
sbalneavI'm all in favour of community.  But if the community is mostly comprised of people saying "It sucks the way things are... why won't someone make it better", then lets get on with it.15:51
LaserJockas a whole, the development wanted Edubuntu to be more than just Ubuntu LTSP15:51
sbalneavLaserJock: Which should tell you something about the people using Edubuntu15:52
sbalneavthey're using it to deploy LTSP15:52
LaserJockbut if you look at the lists and what people ask questions about, it's 99% LTSP15:52
Tm_Tsbalneav: I would love to be payed developing Edubuntu (:15:52
alkisgI don't think it gives them much more than that, currently... what else? kdeedu + a theme?15:52
LaserJockalkisg: that's preciously the problem15:52
LaserJockany time we try to go away from LTSP people yell at us15:53
highvoltage(and from lucid a netbook option and live ltsp and some other things)15:53
alkisgI'm with sbalneav on this, we should pack up some solutions and put them on the DVD for teachers15:53
alkisgNot focus on upstream work, that's somebody else's work...15:53
sbalneavTm_T: I'll gladly split half my earnings with you.15:53
sbalneav0/2 =15:53
LaserJockbut this is the problem15:53
LaserJockEdubuntu is not defined enough, not focused enough15:54
Tm_Tsbalneav: indeed15:54
highvoltageLaserJock: you're a scientist, it's cause and effect. ltsp is currently one of the biggest features in edubuntu, so a large majority of users that currently use it does so because they have an interest in that15:54
LaserJockso you get sort of random looking contributions15:54
highvoltageLaserJock: you can't blame the users aboot that15:54
LaserJockhighvoltage: I'm not blaming them15:54
LaserJockbut I do wish we had room to grow15:54
sbalneav</rant>15:54
stgraberhighvoltage: even though they'll get exactly the same for 3GB less by using ubuntu alternate ;)15:54
sbalneavGotta close my tags15:54
alkisgHeh15:55
highvoltagestgraber: heh, indeed15:55
LaserJockmy assumption from the beginning was that people wanted LTSP as tool to do education15:55
LaserJocknot as an ends to itself15:55
LaserJockas time went on it basically looked to me like I was wrong15:56
LaserJockall people cared about was getting an LTSP server going15:56
LaserJockwhat happened afterward was not very important15:56
sbalneavBecause that was their biggest problem of the moment.15:56
LaserJockthat's I think what was hard for me15:56
sbalneavthey've got 25 old boxes15:56
LaserJockI don't care (wonderful as it is) about LTSP15:56
LaserJockI don't use it, I probably won't ever professionally15:56
LaserJockso I wanted to focus on the actual educational stuff15:57
LaserJockeither what you do after the LTSP server is up and running15:57
LaserJockor if you do  1:115:57
LaserJockor if you're just at home with a kids computer15:57
LaserJockand Edubuntu just never grew past getting LTSP off the ground15:58
sbalneavIt certainly did.15:58
sbalneavIt's just that, you can't USE edubuntu in a lab setting until you get the LTSP part going.15:58
alkisgLaserJock: what is the "actual educational stuff" for you?15:58
sbalneavand the LTSP parts always the hardest part because it's the peice tht has to handle the most variables.15:59
LaserJockok15:59
LaserJockbut I've dealt with labs15:59
LaserJockeven *buntu labs15:59
LaserJockand *none* of them used LTSP15:59
LaserJockbut they sucked for education because there was not a lot of edu stuff there15:59
LaserJockLTSP is a hard part, but it's not the only part16:00
highvoltageno one ever said it was though16:00
LaserJockno, but clearly that's the emphasis16:00
LaserJockand that's what Edubuntu is known for16:00
highvoltagethe only reason why we have some LTSP related tasks for Lucid is that our users demanded it16:01
LaserJockand any time we've ever said something like "let's not worry too much about LTSP and focus on education" people get upset16:01
highvoltageit doesn't have any kind of priority above anything else16:01
LaserJockI'm not saying that LTSP shouldn't be there or that it shouldn't be worked on16:01
highvoltageLaserJock: like who?16:01
LaserJockI think it's a key technology16:01
sbalneavI'm not sure what the problem is here.16:01
sbalneavYou say 99% of our users want LTSP to work16:02
alkisgEdubuntu currently doesn't have neither the developers nor the experience to develop educational software.16:02
alkisgIt shouldn't focus there.16:02
sbalneavWe spend a lot of time making sure the infrastructure (including LTSP) works.16:02
LaserJockok, well, I guess here's my point16:02
sbalneavaren't we just DOING WHAT PEOPLE WANT? :)16:02
highvoltageLaserJock: alkisg is right, and the people who understand education well is just not interested in contributing lots of their time16:02
LaserJockthat's fine16:02
LaserJockbut for instance, our moodle was completely broken for well over a year16:03
LaserJockwe've not done anything with dynamic menus16:03
alkisghighvoltage: I agree. So maybe in the future we could look at that "developing educational software" idea again, but I don't think it's a task we should be looking now.16:03
LaserJocknothing about making the UI more usable for kids16:03
LaserJocknothing with Sugar16:03
LaserJockit seems like historically LTSP + Edu is too much16:04
LaserJockEdubuntu == LTSPbuntu16:04
sbalneavLaserJock: 1) None of us knew about moodle, 2) I thought *YOU* were handling the dynamic menus, 3) We have no UI people, 4) We have no sugar people16:04
LaserJockin terms of what users are wanting to get out of it16:04
highvoltageLaserJock: mgariepy is doing great work for menus for lucid16:04
LaserJocksbalneav: exactly my point16:04
alkisgSo, what can we do with the *current* resources that we have?16:05
highvoltageLaserJock: mhall119|work has been getting involved with us, we're going to include as much of the Qimo4kids stuff as possible in the future, that does work on simplifying interface for younger users16:05
sbalneavLaserJock: So what's the solution? We don't currently have these people, so what?  Do we stop doing what we can do?  Shut the project down?16:05
LaserJockalkisg:  not waste them16:06
LaserJockno16:06
sbalneavHow are we WASTING resources?!16:06
LaserJockI don't know that you guys are16:06
alkisgLaserJock: right. I'm helping stgraber + highvoltage on LTSP/fat clients now, so I'll get edubuntu Lucid to maybe 100 more schools. Is that a waste of time?16:06
LaserJockbut it seems like things are sort of random16:06
LaserJockI know where you're coming from16:07
LaserJockyou do what bits you're able to with what you've got16:07
highvoltageLaserJock: they're not random, we're just doing the best we can with the resources we currently have16:07
mhall119|workhighvoltage: Qimo's desktop uses XFCE, do you want to make your kid-friendly UI require a whole different DE?16:07
highvoltagemhall119|work: there used to be a meta-package called something like edubuntu-desktop-lite that was meant for xfce desktops, but I think no one maintained it anymore16:08
LaserJockwe had it until XFCE got demoted16:08
mhall119|workdemoted?16:08
highvoltageto universe16:09
LaserJockwell, so we keep talking about resources16:09
sbalneavWell, we don't care about that distinction anymore, since we can ship anything we want on the dvd.16:09
LaserJockI guess what I'm suggesting16:09
highvoltagemhall119|work: point is, if we make it easier for ubuntu users to use qimo, we're not wasting time, at least not imho16:09
LaserJockis that Edubuntu find itself16:09
LaserJockfocus on what it wants to do go16:09
LaserJock*good16:09
LaserJockand then *get* resources16:09
highvoltagewith the archive reorg main/universe destinction doesn't matter all that much anyway16:10
mhall119|workokay then16:10
LaserJockone of the things that historically Edubuntu has done worse at than other derivs is getting involved with the other parts of Ubuntu16:10
mhall119|workI'd be happy to have Qimo as an install option in Edubuntu16:10
highvoltagemhall119|work: yep, as we discussed before it would be nice shipping them on the Edubuntu dvd once the packages are available16:11
mhall119|workright, packages..16:11
sbalneavWe're like 6 people.16:11
mhall119|workdo I need Lucid installed to make packages for Lucid?16:11
highvoltagemhall119|work: nope16:11
highvoltagemhall119|work: I could test them for you though16:11
highvoltageLaserJock: our strategy for lucid at least, is just to sort out our current biggest problems16:12
sbalneavQuite frankly, I've heard for 4+ years that edubuntu should "find iteself".16:12
sbalneavI'm tired of looking.16:12
LaserJockyep16:12
sbalneavI just want to fix things so they work.16:13
highvoltageLaserJock: our ISO image is *double* the size it needs to be, the dependencies to sort that out then becomes a high priority16:13
LaserJockhighvoltage: ok, how big do you want it to be?16:13
mhall119|workhighvoltage: cool, I can test them in a VM too, just wasn't sure if I needed lucid dev tools to make them16:13
sbalneavLet me know when we know what/where we are.16:13
highvoltageLaserJock: we're going to drop the alternate installer, so it's basically going to halve in size16:13
highvoltageLaserJock: well, almost half in size16:14
LaserJockhighvoltage: will the alternate installer work for Edubuntu's users?16:14
LaserJockhighvoltage: why half?16:14
highvoltageLaserJock: because we're currently shipping everything twice on the DVD. we have a live cd and then everything again as .debs16:14
mhall119|workbecause you have to include the packages differently between the live session and alternate install16:14
LaserJockhighvoltage: right, but what size do you want to be?16:14
LaserJocksbalneav: what things do you want to fix?16:15
highvoltageLaserJock: oh, I don't care particularly about what size it is. I care that we're wasting half the space we're currently shipping16:15
LaserJockhighvoltage: right, I see that as a problem16:15
LaserJockthis is what I'm trying to say16:15
LaserJockif you have targets16:16
LaserJockwhen you reach them you stop, move on to another target having accomplished a goal16:16
LaserJockEdubuntu could fix a lot of things16:16
LaserJockbut are they the right things16:16
LaserJockthat make the impacts that Edubuntu is seeking to achieve16:16
LaserJockcertainly it's a bit higher level, but it doesn't need to end up in RichEd land16:17
alkisgWe're only a few people, already having specific goals each16:17
alkisgSo there's not much time to give to more generic goals...16:18
LaserJock... and that's why Edubuntu hasn't gotten very far in the last couple years16:18
LaserJockI just did the little things I cared about16:18
highvoltageLaserJock: it's gotten further in the last few months than it has in a *very* *very* long time16:18
LaserJocksbalneav did his things, stgraber, highvoltage, etc.16:18
alkisgRight. People here are NOT intererested in fixing sugar. They left :)16:18
LaserJockhighvoltage: has it thought?16:19
LaserJockI'm not questioning that great things are going on, don't get me wrong16:19
highvoltageLaserJock: yes16:19
LaserJockbut what is the standard by which you're determining success here?16:19
alkisgSo, with the resources that we have left, I think we can bring people to edubuntu by preconfiguring/prepackaging some _existing_ solutions for schools.16:19
LaserJockalkisg: what is Edubuntu's "resources"?16:19
highvoltageLaserJock: I'm comparing what's been happening in the last few months to the last few years16:19
alkisgLaserJock: a couple of our hours per day.... that's about it.16:20
LaserJockalkisg: are you sure?16:20
highvoltageLaserJock: I'm not disagreeing with you regarding the education focus, and setting good milestones, etc16:20
alkisgLaserJock: do you think we have something else? (of course I'm not refering to release systems etc)16:21
LaserJockalkisg: I do16:21
highvoltageLaserJock: but I disagree with you that we're doing particularly bad right now, Lucid is by far going to be the best Edubuntu release ever16:21
LaserJockhighvoltage: I'm not saying you're doing particularly bad, quite the opposite16:21
LaserJockbut I'm not sure I'd call Lucid the best release ever16:21
highvoltageLaserJock: which one would you put above it?16:22
ogranah, that was breezy16:22
LaserJockprobably one of the early ones16:22
highvoltageogra: you are biased :)16:22
LaserJockbecause it was going somewhere16:22
LaserJockit was more momentum and relative change16:22
highvoltageLaserJock: how are we not going somewhere with lucid?16:22
ograhighvoltage, pfft never :)16:22
LaserJockLucid, while great, isn't revolutionary in any educational sense16:23
highvoltageLaserJock: did we really have more momentum then!? because it really doesn't feel so16:23
highvoltageright, and it's not meant to be yet16:23
LaserJockhow has the educational app selection changed in Lucid?16:23
ograLaserJock, probably not as a release but as a milestone for the developer community16:23
highvoltageLaserJock: I changed the seeds to include a bunch of stuff from universe that we never did before16:23
ograthere has never been as much development effort as currently is going on16:23
ograand it seems to raise16:24
LaserJockhighvoltage: and how much has that been testing?16:24
alkisgLaserJock: what did edubuntu breezy offer that ubuntu breezy didn't offer?16:24
LaserJockalkisg: a focus on Education, IMO16:24
ograalkisg, the edu apps and artwork16:24
ograalkisg, since then the edu part didnt change much16:24
highvoltageLaserJock: I made the changes just before the alpha release (Ubuntu Alpha 2), stgraber will be sponsoring those changes this week so that we can test it next week16:24
alkisgogra: couldn't someone put the edu apps on an ubuntu installation?16:25
sbalneavLaserJock: I've been doing nothing but testing for the last 3 weeks.16:25
ograalkisg, nope, no space16:25
alkisgIsn't that what many people are doing currently?16:25
LaserJockok, well, I guess I'm just not quite able to get this stuff across on IRC very well16:25
mhall119|workalkisg: not on a CD image16:25
alkisgogra: no I meant on their PCs, AFTER installing the ubuntu cd...16:25
LaserJockit's not about so much the technical bits16:25
ograLaserJock, i understand you and partially agree16:25
LaserJockI don't mean us testing16:25
LaserJockI mean, how do we know that Lucid's apps are the apps that teachers want16:25
ograalkisg, sure that was possible even before edubuntu existed16:25
LaserJockand how do we know they work for teachers16:26
alkisgogra, that's why 95% of greek teachers do not use Edubuntu. It doesn't offer them anything they don't already have.16:26
LaserJockexactly!16:26
LaserJockthat's what I'm after16:26
alkisgSo breezy was NOT a good release16:26
ograLaserJock, what i see though and appreciate very much is that there *is* developer effort going on, it will take its time to actually get to the edu bits and reorganize16:26
LaserJockI was 100% of greek teachers using Edubuntu16:26
alkisgBut Lucid will offer them things NOT in Ubuntu16:26
LaserJockogra: very true16:27
LaserJockand I want to be clear that I'm not knocking the current effort16:27
ograi'd call Lucid the "release thats getting it back on track"16:27
LaserJockI'm very very pleased to see all the hard work16:27
mhall119|workhow does the project currently get input from teachers?16:27
ograbut there is definately room for improvement in the edu sector16:28
highvoltageLaserJock: you know as well as anyone that whatever we need to include needs to have the appropriate licensing, needs to be packaged, etc16:28
sbalneavmhall119|work: We have a mailing list, an irc, meetings, wiki pages, etc.16:28
LaserJockI guess what I'm not sure about is how Lucid will be received in the user community16:28
highvoltageLaserJock: with a shorter than usual feature freeze and with lots already to be done and tested, we just didn't have the time to focus tremendously on education for Lucid16:28
LaserJocksure16:28
mhall119|worksbalneav: of those, only the mailing list is really accessible to a non-technical teacher16:28
highvoltageLaserJock: and that's less than ideal, it doesn't mean that it will be the same for lucid+116:29
sbalneavmhall119|work: ok16:29
sbalneavSo the mailing list should be flooded with teachers giving suggestions, right?16:29
highvoltageLaserJock: if we get everything right for Lucid, then we could put lots of good focus towards educational value-add for Lucid+116:29
LaserJockor will you be fixing LTSP and LDAP?16:29
mhall119|worksbalneav: is the mailing list email listed as a contact email on the edubuntu website?16:30
sbalneavTeachers should be FLOCKING to the mailing list telling us how testing's going, what apps they want to see, use cases, etc., right?16:30
* sbalneav goes to look at the mailing list16:30
sbalneavNope16:30
highvoltageLaserJock: also, the kind of big problems you talk about... I don't know of anyone who's really made tremendous strides like what you're talking about, not even K12LTSP who has been around for much longer16:30
mhall119|worksbalneav: no, but they should be asking questions16:30
sbalneavAnd they are16:30
sbalneavabout ltsp16:30
LaserJockhighvoltage: which is why I thought Edubuntu had a chance16:30
sbalneavabout ldap auth16:30
LaserJockright16:30
sbalneavand we're answering them16:31
highvoltageLaserJock: well there you go, if you don't believe that Edubuntu has any kind of "chance" then I'm probably just wasting time talking to you16:31
mhall119|worksbalneav: cool, what about kid's apps?16:31
LaserJockso I can't help but wonder if Edubuntu needs to figure out if it's Education or LTSP, I'm not sure it can be great at both for the foreseeable future16:31
sbalneavWhat about them?16:31
mhall119|workare you getting questions about them?16:31
sbalneav"what about kids apps" isn't a question.16:31
sbalneavmhall119|work: Look for yourself16:31
sbalneavanswer is "no"16:32
ograLaserJock, why not ...16:32
sbalneavWe can only answer questions that we get.16:32
LaserJockogra: because we've never pulled it off in the past16:32
ograLaserJock, its starts to attract more devs and apparently some of these arent even intrested in LTSP16:32
ograjust give it time16:32
LaserJockogra: and most importantly because it seems to me that LTSP and "Edu" are orthogonal problems16:33
sbalneavWe can only fix bugs that get get filed.16:33
mhall119|workthe mailing list linked to on the website is edubuntu-devel, is that correct?16:33
LaserJockit seems to me that most LTSP people are really trying to sysadmin an educational server16:33
sbalneavAFAIK, both are lined on the site.16:33
mhall119|workI mean, is that what is intended16:33
ograLaserJock, i beg to disagree ... they are surely not as joint as they are promoted atm, but LTSP is an instrument thats being used in education16:33
alkisgLaserJock: yes, that's exactly what teachers want edubuntu for :)16:33
alkisgFor educational applications, we have upstream, not distros...16:34
LaserJockogra: LTSP is like a say an email server16:34
ograalkisg, but who integrates the educational apps ?16:34
LaserJocka teacher wants to use email16:34
sbalneavhttp://www.edubuntu.org/help, no looks like the first link's wrong.16:34
ograalkisg, there is totally agree with LaserJock that edubuntu is lacking16:34
LaserJockbut that doesn't mean they're concerned about the nuts and bolts of an email server16:34
mhall119|workalkisg: there is something to say about pre-configured distros16:34
alkisgogra: I don't think edubuntu is suffering from packaging problems. It has other, more important problems :)16:34
sbalneavfirst one should be to edubuntu users.16:35
ograalkisg, i'm not saying *packging*16:35
ograalkisg, where is the moodle server teachers asked for since several years ?16:35
ograwhy arent there more edu apps integrated from the archive yet16:35
ograetc etc16:35
LaserJockwhat I'm wondering is if what i'd call "educational infrastructure" needs more outsourcing16:36
mhall119|workis moodle that much in demand?  I tried it but it didn't seem intuitive to me16:36
alkisgogra: there ARE some applications integrated. Still, teachers use Ubuntu instead of edubuntu. Why would integrading more apps change that?16:36
ograalkisg, while i agree with all of you that LTSP *is* an important part ... and that an automatic LDAP setup might be awesome, there is definately not been much change in the past in the edu app selection of edubuntu16:37
LaserJockand it's not just about "app selection" itself16:37
LaserJockbut how you get the app selection16:37
mhall119|workogra: it already has just about all the good open source edu apps16:37
ogranor has there been much work with upstreams to make edu apps more flawlessly integrated16:37
LaserJockwhat the UI looks like16:37
LaserJocketc.16:37
LaserJockthere are a *ton* of Java edu apps out there that are not packaged16:37
ogramhall119|work, i know, i made that selection about 5 years ago .... and it didnt change much16:38
alkisg(06:36:52 μμ) alkisg: ogra: there ARE some applications integrated. Still, teachers use Ubuntu instead of edubuntu. Why would integrading more apps change that?16:38
mhall119|workare there?  Only one I've ever used and distrubuted is Alice16:38
ograalkisg, *integration*16:38
mhall119|workintegration != installation16:38
ograalkisg, like working 100% flawless16:38
sbalneavogra, LaserJock agreed.  Not much work got done on setting vision, or app selection, or packaging java apps.16:38
alkisgThey would work on Edubuntu but not on Ubuntu?16:39
ograwhy cant i drag and drop my images from nautilus or dolphin into tuxpaint ?16:39
mhall119|workin Qimo, we don't just include the apps, we pre-configure the bottom panel with launchers, tux paint with stamps and a default save directory, etc16:39
* sbalneav looks very very very pointedly at ogra and laserjock16:39
sbalneavand why not?16:39
highvoltagesbalneav: let it slide16:39
sbalneavmaybe because of the same reason as now16:39
ogra(or from thunar, sorry xfce users :) )16:39
sbalneavbecause there just aren't enough people here working on it.16:40
mhall119|workogra: because Tux Paint doesn't support it?16:40
LaserJockmy point is maybe that we need to look more outside "people here"16:40
ogramhall119|work, right, thats my point16:40
LaserJockEdubuntu is *never* going to have a lot of developers16:40
LaserJockbut there are a lot of developers out there in Ubuntu and the broader community16:40
mhall119|workogra: so you think we should be contributing feature enhancements upstream?16:40
sbalneav"we need" to X, Y and Z16:40
alkisgogra: so you're suggesting that teachers or the few developers with the couple of free hours per day here should do upstream tuxpaint work?16:40
ogramhall119|work, no, just find such issues and bug them for a start ...16:41
ograalkisg, thats not what i'm saying16:41
mhall119|workogra: to be honest, I've never seen someone even try to drag and drop an image into tuxpaint16:41
mhall119|workthen again, Qimo defaults it to fullscreen16:41
ograi'm saying you guys should (once there are more devs) make the experience for a teacher as flawless as possible16:41
LaserJockso looking at LDAP/auth, perhaps it's maybe more worthwhile to have a serious sit-down with the Server team16:41
ogramhall119|work, that was just an example16:41
sbalneavHad enough of this for the day.16:42
LaserJocksbalneav: sorry dude, I really really didn't mean to harsh the mood :(16:43
ogramhall119|work, what i'm trying to get across is that it takes little work to file such a lack upstream and if edubuntu is the first distro including such a change (because some intrested MOTU provided a fix) it will rock the teachers world16:43
highvoltagesbalneav: I'm with you16:43
mhall119|workogra: perhaps16:43
mhall119|workhave you filed a bug for that?16:43
ogramhall119|work, its "make the ditro woprk right" ... but indeed for that "right" you need teachers input etc16:43
mhall119|workogra: have you entered a bug against tux paint to get drag and drop support?16:44
ogracurrently as alkisg says, the edu part of edubuntu is only a selection of apps ...16:44
ogramhall119|work, no16:44
mhall119|workwhy not?16:44
ograbecause i dont touch edu apps anymore ... i've done that for 5 years 14h/day16:45
ogra6 days/week16:45
mhall119|workthen the only person who has noticed the bug and wants it fixed isn't reporting it16:45
ograsigh16:45
ograyou dont understand me16:45
mhall119|workI do understand you16:45
ograi'm not talking about tuxpaint16:45
mhall119|workyes, I get that16:45
ograi'm trying to get across where edubuntu can be more than just a selection of apps16:46
mhall119|workmy point is that I report bugs and request features when I come across them16:46
ograand what i meant by integration16:46
ograright16:46
ograi didnt mean to blame you :)16:46
mhall119|workI assume that everyone else does too16:46
LaserJockbut some of use aren't educators16:46
LaserJockand that's a problem16:46
mhall119|workare any of us educators?16:47
LaserJockI can take a stab at filing bugs that I think educators would care about16:47
LaserJockbut it's much better to actually get educators involved16:47
LaserJockI think that's some of what ogra's trying to say16:47
highvoltageLaserJock: if you want to help edubuntu, then please contribute, or send us some good suggestions or even complaints, but right now I think the only think you're doing here is rambling your agenda without listening to anyone else16:47
ograright, and look over their sholder and see them failing with a drag/drop in tuxpaint ;)16:47
LaserJockhighvoltage: fair enough, carry on16:48
mhall119|workogra: have you seen that?16:48
ogramhall119|work, no, i dont look over educators sholders, but it would help if someone did16:48
mhall119|workit sure would be, then we can find actual bugs and feature requests16:48
ograand if this someone would make a writeup etc so it gets across to you guys16:49
alkisgTo be honest, I didn't even understand LaserJock's agenta, it was too vague for me.16:49
mhall119|workand if we had a budget to hire someone to do that, things would be easier16:49
ogramhall119|work, there once was ...16:50
mhall119|workonce16:50
mhall119|workno longer16:50
ograbut that someone got eaten up by tech issues he had to fix16:50
mhall119|workso how can we do this with no budget?16:50
ograattract teachers that arent after getting tech support :)16:51
highvoltagealkisg: I have lots of respect for LaserJock and the work that he's done, but I don't think he's been helping us much the last few hours16:51
alkisgmhall119|work: the edubuntu bugsquad can help teachers correctly file their bugs, and notify upstream for them whenever appopriate16:51
highvoltagealkisg: I understand and agree with what he's saying about an educational focus, but I also don't think there's more we can do about it *right now*16:51
mhall119|workworking over a teacher's shoulder is only going to work in-person16:51
alkisghighvoltage: I totally agree...16:51
ogramhall119|work, right, a usability study of edubuntu would make an awesome thesis for a student i bet ;)16:52
jbichaI think LaserJock wishes he were still a major part of Edubuntu...16:52
ograhighvoltage, i totally agree ... you are all doing awesome *right now*16:52
ograhighvoltage, but you know Laser ... and he had alsway a bigger picture in mind16:53
mhall119|workI've only worked with teachers who's control doesn't extend beyond the walls of their classroom, and they're looking for 2 separate things: record-keeping tools that run on their computer, and educational games that run on the kid's computer(s)16:53
ogramhall119|work, only games ?16:53
ograthats sad16:54
mhall119|workfor that setup, LDAP, LTSP and even a webserver are more than necessary16:54
highvoltagethanks ogra.16:54
mhall119|workogra: s/games/applications/16:54
ograright, teaching tools16:54
highvoltageI've also worked with many teachers who use Ubuntu in their schools. Most of them that I've worked with come from poorer backgrounds and they use LTSP16:55
mhall119|workmost schools in my area have a few computers available in-class, and it's usually for undirected time, not actual lessons16:55
ogramhall119|work, yeah, and thats sad16:55
highvoltageso for the teachers I've worked with, getting the system to work right from a technical perspective is vital for them in order to do their educating on top of it16:55
mhall119|workit is sad, but they don't have enough hardware to use them for actual lessons16:55
ograhighvoltage, yeah, i dont disagree and i wouldnt have put the amount of work into LTSP if i ever had ;)16:56
mhall119|workthe other problem teachers around here face is that the school board's IT department strictly controls all the computers16:57
ograhighvoltage, for the same reason i was always reluctant to using a DVD :)16:57
jbichamhall119|work: for record-keeping, what do you use?16:57
jbichabecause supposedly, schooltool will be back in the repos for Lucid16:57
mhall119|workthat staff doesn't have the resources to properly manage all the classroom computers, but is also unwilling to give up control over them, so they remain all but useless16:57
ograthats even sadder16:57
mhall119|workjbicha: schooltool is nice, but most teachers I know would rather have it as a desktop app on their teacher computer, than as we webapp16:58
ograbut a political issue edubuntu cant do much about16:58
mhall119|workogra: yes, that is the biggest challenge facing my district's use of open source16:58
highvoltageogra: I guess we'll never agree about the dvd :), from what I've seen though it's way easier copying DVD's that trying to get packages for a minimum installed system if you don't have connectivity16:58
jbichait's almost a desktop app, just one that you access via your webbrowser ;-)16:58
ograhighvoltage, sure ...16:59
mhall119|workogra: but that is why LTDP + LDAP is so important, is it allows us to make the case for adoption by the IT departments, because it lets them still keep control over these computers, while making them useful too16:59
highvoltagemhall119|work: in many areas we have that here too, some teachers are even actively against using computers to give lessons16:59
ograhighvoltage, it has advantages and disadvantages :)16:59
highvoltageogra: *nod*16:59
ogramhall119|work, yes, i dont disagree with that LTSP is an important tool17:00
mhall119|workan LDAP + LTSP + NFS package would go a long way in convincing a district-wide adoption of edubuntu, which is about the only way to get any kind of adoption around here17:00
ogramhall119|work, and unlike Laser i wouldnt decouple edubuntu from it at all17:00
alkisgmhall119|work: have you read about libpam_sshauth that sbalneav proposed? Would you need ldap if you already had that?17:00
mhall119|workalkisg: no, I haven't read it17:01
mhall119|workwhat is it?17:01
alkisgDo you know how LTSP authentication is done? (with ldm+ssh)?17:01
jbichamhall119|work: is there any other edu record-keeping software you know of?17:01
mhall119|workalkisg: nope, I figured the clients used whatever auth backend was avialable on the server17:01
ogramhall119|work, though note that i'm a passionate hater of LDAP ;) i think its useless for setups under 1000 users17:01
alkisgmhall119|work: ok, see this for starters: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/libpam-sshauth17:01
mhall119|workjbicha: I found another one a couple years ago, don't remember what it was called17:02
mhall119|workbut it was also web based, and not as nice as school tool17:02
alkisgI think that that could server school districts with many hunderds of users, without having to learn how to use ldap...17:02
mhall119|workthere is also the gcompris teacher tool17:02
alkisg*serve17:02
mhall119|workalkisg: so the client authenticates via ssh to the ltsp server, or some other server?17:03
ograhowever your pam setup is configured17:04
alkisgWell I guess it could authenticate to any server17:04
ogracurrently it authenticated only to the ssh server it wants to connect to17:04
mhall119|workokay, so this spec is just for a new ssh-based pam module that LTSP can use17:04
alkisgmhall119|work: nope, see the use cases17:05
mhall119|workbut once LTSP is using some pam-based authentication, it can use any of them17:05
ograwrong way round :)17:05
ograltsp goes on to use ssh to talk to the auth server17:05
ograits just not bound to the ltsp server anymore17:06
mhall119|workokay, so ssh-auth first, then somethign else?17:06
alkisgThat mechanism could be used by standalone workstations, that have nothing to do with LTSP....17:06
mhall119|worktrue17:06
alkisgAnd relying on simple ssh, user management would be simpler than managing LDAP17:06
ograyeah17:06
mhall119|workbut IT admins are generally familiar with directory-based user management17:06
alkisgI'd prefer that for my schools, instead of ldap/nfs/etc17:06
mhall119|workthis would be good for smaller, in-class setups though17:07
ogramhall119|work, teachers arent ;) you just said that before17:07
alkisgIT admins should go to #ubuntu-server, not to #edubuntu :)17:07
highvoltageespecially since you'd just have to set up ssh on the server to authenticate against ldap/ad/etc17:07
mhall119|workogra: I also said my teachers aren't going to be using LTSP17:07
mhall119|workheh, I just noticed there's a koala face on the inside of my 9.10 CD sleeve17:08
mhall119|workfor getting edubuntu adopted district-wide, I think an authentication directory would be the most desired17:09
mhall119|workbe it LDAP or AD17:09
alkisgI still wonder what does edubuntu have to do with that, though :)17:10
mhall119|workalkisg: the included apps and tools17:10
alkisgI think it should be something for #ubuntu-server17:10
mhall119|workschooltool would be especially good in this kind of setup, district-wide management in a central place17:10
mhall119|worksame with moodle17:10
alkisgNo, I mean if IT admins are going to set up edubuntu, then edubuntu shouldn't worry about making edirectories easy for teachers...17:10
mhall119|workno, but it should worry about making them easy for school board it admins17:11
mhall119|workand school administrators, who are assigning students to teachers17:11
ograubuntu-server should17:11
mhall119|workteachers don't generally have the ability to change which students they have17:11
ograedubuntu should just use it17:11
alkisgRight17:12
mhall119|workogra: I agree, but ubuntu-server doesn't17:12
mhall119|workat least not that I've seen17:12
ograand if there are requirements from teachers, these should be channeled to ubuntu-server17:12
alkisgEdubuntu could help with that.17:12
ograright17:12
mhall119|workand having a single isntall that does LDAP + LTSP + NFS + SchoolTool + Moodle + edu-games would be a sellable package17:12
alkisgSo if I was to give some time in making authentication easier, I'd focus on smaller schools, with no IT admins.17:13
ogramhall119|work, skolelinux does that17:13
mhall119|workalkisg: yes, which is why I said a while back that it would be good outside of schools17:13
ogramhall119|work, but in a way thats not compatible with the rest of debian17:13
ograso debian docs will fail if you want to enhance or change it17:13
ograthat why for edubuntu ubuntu-server should work out the theme17:14
ograand edubuntu should just adopt it from there17:14
mhall119|workis there anything going on with ubuntu-server on that front?17:14
ograsure17:14
ograbut not as fast as it should :)17:14
ograbut there are a bunch of LDAP specialists in the server team17:15
ograand they surely know the desire to have its handling easier17:15
mhall119|workis there any coordination between the two projects?17:16
ogranot enough17:16
mhall119|workmaybe we should encourage their efforts on that front17:17
highvoltageI shared a room with the lead developer of LDAP at UDS in Barcelona17:17
highvoltageseems that there is at least some good communication going on between ubuntu and ldap17:18
mhall119|workuntil then, I think the LiveDVD and LTSP integration is a good start, having schooltool and moddle installed and running by default would be too17:18
mhall119|workwe can add links to those on the teacher's desktop17:18
mhall119|workor menus17:18
highvoltageit doesn't look like we'll have schooltool for lucid though17:18
mhall119|workI figured it would be too late in the game to start planning for lucid, I'm thinking lucid+117:19
highvoltage*nod*17:19
mhall119|workbeing able to boot a classroom-wide system from the DVD would be great17:19
highvoltagehaving a server metapackage again for all the edu server-side stuff would be great for that17:19
mhall119|workdoes the DVD have separate boot options for teacher vs student live session?17:21
* mhall119|work needs to get the DVD and play with it, I know17:21
highvoltagemhall119|work: hmm? no ot'17:21
highvoltagemhall119|work: hmm? no it's all the same17:21
mhall119|workit would be nice, I think17:22
highvoltagecould be, yes17:23
* mhall119|work needs more time in the day17:23
alkisgmhall119|work: what good is moodle on a live DVD?17:24
ograget a plane and keep constantly flying :)17:24
alkisgWith no users, no classes, nothing?17:24
ograhopping timezones gets you a lot more hours17:24
mhall119|workalkisg: pre-loaded it with some lesson plans17:24
alkisgmhall119|work: multilingual?17:24
mhall119|workboot the other computers on the classroom network into the student session17:24
mhall119|workpoint them to the teacher's computer for moodle work17:24
alkisgIt gets too complicated for a general purpose live CD :)17:24
mhall119|workalkisg: I suppose, I'm not sure what moodle's support for that is17:25
mhall119|workalkisg: it's not that complicated, and a DVD will have enough room17:25
ograhaving as proper moodle install in the edubuntu-server option would already be a big hit17:25
mhall119|workjust different startup scripts17:25
alkisgI'm not sure that teachers would want to use whatever lesson plan is on the DVD17:25
alkisgThey'd most probably want to create their own plans...17:25
mhall119|workalkisg: no, but it would be something they can start playing with really quickly17:26
mhall119|workit's daunting looking at a blank canvas with tools you've never used before17:26
alkisgmhall119|work: that could be an "tasksel install moodle-something" task17:26
mhall119|workalkisg: I'd like to see it on the live session17:26
ograalkisg, apt-get install edubuntu-server ;)17:26
alkisgI just don't think it's useful to have on a DVD... there are plenty of moodle sites around to see a demo17:26
highvoltagealkisg: we should probably link to them from somewhere17:27
mhall119|workalkisg: desktop users liked the livecd because it had everything they would use available to tinker with without causing any harm17:27
mhall119|workteachers should get teh same experience17:27
alkisgogra: I'm not sure "edubuntu-server" is definable :) Every class/teacher/school needs different things, so I don't think a package is a good solution17:27
mhall119|workEvolution isn't very useful to have on a LiveCD, but it's there so people can see it, play with it, decide that they like it17:28
* alkisg thinks it's there because people want it on their installed systems, not to try it out.17:28
ograalkisg, it is already defined :) apt-cache show edubuntu-server17:28
mhall119|workwhich is why I think moodle + schooltool + some default lesson plans would be good for teachers to see what they can do with it, without having to do it first17:28
alkisgogra, well, I have no use for postgressql, and I am a teacher :) So I don't think edubuntu-server is suitable for me... That's what I mean17:29
ograalkisg, the idea of that package was to defiane a general set of edu server apps and depend on it17:29
highvoltagealkisg: you'll need a database server for moodle though17:29
ograalkisg, if you use moodle you need any kind of DB17:29
highvoltage(if you want to run it lice)17:29
highvoltage*live17:29
alkisghighvoltage: right, I don't need moodle in my classrooms. We have more "global" moodle servers, country-wise.17:30
alkisgIt's hard to fill up a moodle course with just the local teachers17:30
ogramhall119|work, running moodle off a live DVD wouldnt really get any positive impression ... every tried to access a spinning CD on a live system with more than one user ? its darn slow17:31
ogra*ever17:31
alkisgWhat I'd like, and I don't know how much possible is that, is to provide an additional combo box in ubuiquity,17:31
alkisgsomething like the "select your country" box,17:31
ograo was always reluctatnt to putting LTSP on the live CD as well because of this17:31
alkisgin which edubuntu-related teams would define their own sets of default apps,17:31
ograbut if you only demo one or two clients that might still work17:32
mhall119|workogra: perhaphs, but computers are coming with multiple gigs of memory these days, so it may not be that bad17:32
ogramhall119|work, that doesnt let the drive spin faster :)17:32
alkisgso e.g. Greek schools could select "I'm a _secondary_ greek school" and get whatever apps was defined for them by their team17:32
mhall119|workogra: but it would let us prefetch more into cache17:32
alkisgThat would also bring more people to edubuntu, to form those teams that define the sets of apps.17:34
ogramhall119|work, sop you would develop a special kernel for the livecd ? or special app-wrappers for each and every app to achieve that ?17:34
mhall119|workno, but I'm pretty sure you could have them loaded into memory with some custom init scripts17:35
ograhow much customization would you want to do ? and who would maintain all that ?17:36
alkisgmhall119|work: why would people download a CD to tryout moodle, instead of seeing it live in a site in their web browsers? E.g. http://www.linux-for-education.org/index.php ?17:36
mhall119|workbecause maybe they can't reach the internet from their classroom?17:36
ogranote that a live system is usually as close to the install as possible because the resources to maintin any special casing are missing17:36
mhall119|workbecause maybe they want something to play with that isn't accessible to the rest of the world17:37
alkisgThey could try it at home then. I don't think teachers try stuff _in_ their classrooms..17:37
mhall119|workogra: there are plenty of custom scripts in the livesystem, it doesn't cause much more maintenance17:37
mhall119|workalkisg: I do17:37
alkisgmhall119|work: while teaching?!17:38
mhall119|workno17:38
mhall119|workbut teachers aren't at school just during teaching hours17:38
ogramhall119|work, there arent17:38
highvoltagemhall119|work: they do! things change the whole time which breaks those scripts17:38
mhall119|workat least not here in the USA they aren't17:38
mhall119|workhighvoltage: like what?17:38
mhall119|workI'm talking about the casper scripts that create the live-session user and install ubiquity17:39
ogramhall119|work, there is only casper ... no custom scripts in the livefs or something17:39
ogramhall119|work, casper doesnt install a thing17:39
mhall119|workso we add another casper script17:39
mhall119|workogra: I thought it did, I could be wrong17:39
highvoltageis this still about moodle or am I missing something?17:39
ograhighvoltage, somehow drifted away17:40
mhall119|workhighvoltage: it's about making sure moodle doesn't have terrible performance if we included it in the live session17:40
* ogra goes back to hack bootloaders 17:40
* alkisg goes back to ltsp-build-client plugins for italc, ssh keys etc :D17:40
* highvoltage goes back to trying to beat the wiki into shape17:41
alkisgOoooh wiki day17:41
highvoltagemhall119|work: we can have a session for that for lucid+1 ;)17:41
* mhall119|work goes back to UserDay lesson plan, school, work and Qimo17:41
mhall119|workhighvoltage: I would like that, yes17:41
highvoltageyay less talking and more doing \o/17:41
ograhighvoltage, use a shovel :) i had good success with that :)17:41
highvoltageogra: yes I had to bury plenty of pages today!17:42
ogracool17:42
ograanyway, really back to work, else we wont have an armel port in lucid :)17:42
* mhall119|work has to right a report on the security threats faces by a gas station....17:44
* mhall119|work has 11 hours to do so17:44
mhall119|workanyone here have experience knocking over convenience stores?17:44
highvoltagenot on purpose, no17:45
mhall119|worklol17:46
highvoltage:)17:47
highvoltageogra: do you still want https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdubuntuClassmatePC ?17:51
highvoltage(the information there doesn't seem particularly useful)17:52
alkisgWow! long time no see... :) Hi nubae17:59
nubaehi alkisg17:59
nubaeyeah took a break from the computer for a while17:59
nubaeit was needed17:59
alkisgYou did the right thing :)18:00
nubaenow I'm invigorated and ready to get back to work18:00
alkisgI gave someone your email about some fat client installation, did he contact you?18:00
nubaeyeah wasnt easy at first18:00
nubaebut then it was like being free18:00
nubaeI'll have to check my mail, when I say I stayed away from the computer that includes email18:01
nubae:-)18:01
alkisgHeh :)18:01
alkisgNo it was for a paid job, so you'd remember it :)18:01
nubaeI guess I'll have a couple thousand mails to go through18:01
nubaewell, I didn't read my mail18:01
nubaebut will do immedialty18:02
nubaesince paid is good18:02
nubaewas it a long time ago?18:02
alkisgYup18:02
alkisgLast year :D18:02
nubaeah well.. maybe too late then18:02
nubaestill, I'll check... could u give me his email so I can do a search?18:02
highvoltagenubae: \o/18:03
alkisgHmmm I think I sent you one too, so check for mine18:03
nubaeok18:03
nubaegreets highvoltage18:03
highvoltagehey nubae, good to see that things are going well18:03
nubaesorry for not being around, but needed some time away from all electronics18:04
highvoltagedid you also wear a tinfoil hat?18:04
* highvoltage ducks18:04
nubaelol18:04
nubae:-)18:04
nubaenah just watched lots of conspiracy documentaries18:05
nubaeanyway, good thing is, my mind is clear now and I'm ready to dive back into work18:06
nubaehey, what do u know about suse moblin?18:06
alkisgUhm, nothing?18:06
nubaeseems to be suses answer to ubuntu mobile edition18:07
nubaemade for netbooks18:07
nubaehttp://en.opensuse.org/Moblin18:07
highvoltagethere'18:08
highvoltagethere's an ubuntu moblin remix disc as well18:08
nubaeoh18:09
nubaethink its worth installing on a netbook18:09
nubae?18:09
nubaeI'm l9ooking for something usable18:09
highvoltageI don't know, I've been meaning to try it out since karmic has been released but haven't had the time18:10
highvoltageit looks really cool though18:10
highvoltage(moblin, that is)18:10
nubaeI'll gove it a shot... needs to be built by hand though right?18:10
nubaethere arent any isos I can see18:10
highvoltagenubae: I'll get you a link...18:11
highvoltagenubae: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-moblin-remix/releases/9.10/release/18:11
nubaenice one thanks18:12
mhall119|worklast I heard moblin was still pretty beta, but that was like 6 months ago18:12
* mhall119|work leave for lunch18:12
* mhall119|work leaves18:12
nubaeI got an offer from razorfish in Madrid18:13
nubaeI know the name from somewhere18:13
nubaethink it was one of the big dot com bubble web companies18:13
nubaed9oes it ring a bell for u guys?18:14
highvoltageI don't recognise it18:14
nubaeI thought I read an article about them in wired18:14
nubaethey kind of contacted me out of the blue18:15
nubaethough I'm more looking forward to a possible job in SA18:15
nubaewith hilton theunisson18:15
nubaewho I believe u know quite well highvoltage18:15
highvoltagenubae: yep, he told me about you18:16
nubaewould be nice to see SA, though everyone tells me its too dangerous18:16
nubaethough that all comes from rumours of people who have never even visited18:17
nubaeso...18:17
highvoltagenubae: I was in Jo'burg for a while and I didn't like it, people live like prisoners in their own homes because they're too afraid of crime18:17
nubaeyeah joburg doesnt sound to freindly18:17
nubaewhere do u live now, capetown?18:18
highvoltagenubae: cape town is quite different though. better climate, not the violent crimes... if you're a tourist you might get pick-pocketed but I guess it's like that in any city18:18
highvoltageyep18:18
nubaeyep indeed, I got mugged pretty badly in Berlin18:18
nubaeso...18:19
nubaehow are job opportunities for open source work in SA?18:22
Tm_TSA?18:28
nubaesouth africa18:28
Tm_Troger18:29
highvoltagenubae: if you want to work for government or the corporates then Jo'burg/Pretoria has more linux work, but it's not for me18:36
highvoltagenubae: cape town has offices for larger companies that do lots of open source work, like Amazon and Yola, etc18:36
nubaenot sure why, but I have a strange attraction to South Africa... maybe cause its the home origin of ubuntu... not sure... but I'm looking for opportunities over there, so if u hear of anything, please let me know...18:38
highvoltageI think technically England would be the home of Ubuntu, well the distribution at least :)18:38
nubaeyeah :-)18:39
nubaebut England is not the nicest of places to live18:39
nubaeI lived in London for 3 years, and the fast paced miserable lifestyle wasnt for me18:39
highvoltagemy father worked there for 2 years and also said people there were miserable18:40
highvoltagealthough he later worked in birmingham for a bit and said that people were better there18:40
sbalneavOf/win 919:21
alkisgI want to automatically add the "edubuntu stable updates" ppa to my school chroots, to get useful updates. I'll need its key, but it doesn't yet have one. Will it be the same as the one in https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev/+archive/edubuntu-testing ?20:55
HedgeMagealkisg: I have no idea, but that's the sort of thing ogra usually knows.21:02
alkisgNah it's too late for ogra now, I bet he's either on his couch watching TV or at some bar :D21:03
alkisgI guess stgraber would know, but I didn't want to distract him...21:03
sbalneavalkisg: Good one, not sure.21:08
stgraberalkisg: it won't21:09
alkisgHmmm any idea when it will be available?21:10
alkisgIf it'll be before the Lucid release, it'll be fine :)21:10
alkisgHeh, the key for "edubuntu-testing" is named "Launchpad Edubuntu Work in Progress"... I wonder how will the "Edubuntu Work in Progress" be named :D21:11
highvoltageogra watches TV!?21:22
* ogra is in a phone meeting :P21:23
ograi'd love to the new season of lost started 1h ago :)21:23
ogra(luckily i have a PVR)21:23
ograalkisg, it will be available around beta21:24
alkisgDanke ogra21:24
ogra:)21:24
alkisgI can send you the old seasons if you like!21:24
ogranah21:24
ograsaeson 5 just started in germany ...21:25
ograand when 6 starts in the US i'll actually be in portland and take a sneak preview ;)21:25
alkisgI've been watching the first 3 seasons while ironing :P but I haven't watch it since...21:25
highvoltageironing!?21:58
ogracomes from irony ;)22:00
highvoltageheh22:15
* alkisg will laugh in 10 years when you happy youngsters will have 3-4 kids each :D22:16
highvoltage4 kids in 10 years!? eek22:24
highvoltageI don't think I have the energy22:24
* highvoltage tries out moblik remix on mac mini instead22:24

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