| bencer | btw, zentyal is hiring again: http://www.zentyal.com/positions/qa-engineer/ | 09:37 |
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| stgraber | highvoltage: wondering what we'll be talking about at today's hangout considering how little progress we've made so far... | 14:23 |
| highvoltage | oh shit | 14:24 |
| highvoltage | I thought that was next week for some reason | 14:25 |
| ogra_ | just get a hammock, i heard someone is well trained using the ;) | 14:25 |
| ogra_ | *them | 14:25 |
| highvoltage | stgraber: | 14:25 |
| highvoltage | Let's talk about Tablets | 14:25 |
| highvoltage | Wed, July 25, 1:00 PM | 14:25 |
| ogra_ | just film him swinging back and forth nicely :) | 14:25 |
| highvoltage | it is July the 18th today right? | 14:25 |
| ogra_ | yes | 14:25 |
| stgraber | highvoltage: oh, good, then ;) for some reason I had it noted with the wrong date apparently | 14:26 |
| highvoltage | stgraber: even if we don't have much, it should still be ok. we could just talk about our intentions and get some Q&A, that could easily fill around 30-60 minutes | 14:26 |
| highvoltage | ogra_: hehe, I just don't have anywhere to hang one! | 14:27 |
| carli2 | hi | 14:29 |
| highvoltage | hi carli2 | 14:29 |
| carli2 | does edubuntu have sth like a regulation gui for a techer-student infrastructure? | 14:30 |
| carli2 | adding classes with users, | 14:30 |
| carli2 | blocking internet | 14:30 |
| carli2 | blocking screen | 14:30 |
| carli2 | blocking programs | 14:30 |
| highvoltage | there's a bunch of different tools that allow you to do some of those partially, like edubuntu menu editor and epoptes | 14:31 |
| highvoltage | blocking internet is something you'd have to set up by yourself at this stage | 14:31 |
| carli2 | I wrote sth that has some of these features | 14:32 |
| carli2 | but it's hard to maintain for new ubuntu releases | 14:32 |
| highvoltage | carli2: link? | 14:32 |
| carli2 | highvoltage: no link there. it's just an installation of a classroom | 14:32 |
| highvoltage | ah | 14:33 |
| carli2 | but I versioned it | 14:33 |
| carli2 | https://bitbucket.org/carli/lehrerverwaltung | 14:33 |
| highvoltage | it wants me to sign up to see that | 14:34 |
| carli2 | it's a login window for client side with a makefile that creates an install script for a random machine you want to be a client | 14:34 |
| carli2 | oh | 14:34 |
| carli2 | wait, i'll scan it for clear text passwords | 14:35 |
| carli2 | okay, should be open now | 14:35 |
| carli2 | yep. and the server software is a control GUI that enables to kill users processes, watch over programs, do backups | 14:36 |
| carli2 | optimized for easy use | 14:36 |
| carli2 | because other ppl than me have to use it | 14:36 |
| carli2 | the question is: can i migrate to edubuntu without losing features or flexibility that i had before (or better: improve) | 14:37 |
| highvoltage | carli2: I don't know yet how lehrerverwaltung works so I have no way of telling | 14:38 |
| highvoltage | carli2: gnome 2 is no longer available and the closest thing to that is gnome fallback, gconf is mostly moving to gsettings/dconf so some things like gnome nanny doesn't work at all anymore | 14:39 |
| carli2 | highvoltage: basically gives you full control over client's running programs | 14:39 |
| highvoltage | (not that it used to work that well anyway) | 14:39 |
| highvoltage | carli2: I suggest you test it in a VM or something (that's the best I could advise you on for now) | 14:39 |
| carli2 | highvoltage: the gnome2 things are just designs (own logos etc) | 14:39 |
| carli2 | which technique does edubuntu use to synchronize logins and files? | 14:51 |
| highvoltage | carli2: in current releases it's up to the administrator to set something up, for 12.10 we're aiming to set up a domain using samba4 | 15:05 |
| carli2 | highvoltage: i mean which authentication method and how are the home directories mounted on the client machines... | 15:06 |
| highvoltage | carli2: ah, for thin clients it uses ssh / sshfs | 15:09 |
| carli2 | highvoltage: my solution is flexible and allows either ssh or xrdp | 15:10 |
| carli2 | highvoltage: but I dont have thick clients | 15:10 |
| highvoltage | ok | 15:11 |
| highvoltage | carli2: sounds like your work has some overlap with epoptes. the author of that (alkisg) is currently on holiday but I think he'll be back here next week | 15:12 |
| highvoltage | carli2: might be a good idea to talk to him too | 15:13 |
| highvoltage | (epoptes website is on http://www.epoptes.org/) | 15:13 |
| carli2 | that looks good | 15:13 |
| stgraber | alkisg, highvoltage: Uploaded edubuntu-netboot to the archive, once that lands, I'll do an LTSP upload to remove it from there, then merging should be quite a bit easier. | 17:55 |
| * stgraber gets back to doing "real" work :) | 17:57 | |
| highvoltage | stgraber: nice | 17:58 |
| highvoltage | alkisg: are you back? | 17:58 |
| alkisg | stgraber: edubuntu-netboot? Is that an "extracted" package which will also help in syncing LTSP with debian a bit more? | 18:12 |
| alkisg | highvoltage: hey, yup, back for a bit :) | 18:13 |
| highvoltage | alkisg: ooh, nice | 18:13 |
| stgraber | alkisg: yeah, it's a separate source package | 18:13 |
| alkisg | Cool, do you have a link handy? | 18:13 |
| alkisg | (bzr ) | 18:13 |
| highvoltage | alkisg: we finally got the tablets, will give you the tracking no as soon as its shipped | 18:13 |
| alkisg | Nice!!! Thanks highvoltage :) | 18:14 |
| alkisg | When I receive it I'll ask for any installation instructions we may have | 18:14 |
| highvoltage | yes, hopefully we'll have some by then :) | 18:20 |
| highvoltage | (currently we don't have anything installable, but that will hopefully change this week still) | 18:21 |
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