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