| cjdg | hi there, one question, does anyone how can i contact , @eickmeyer? | 19:35 |
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| Eickmeyer | I'm right here. | 19:35 |
| cjdg | hi man, sorry for bothering you, but i was trying to contact you for some months | 19:35 |
| Eickmeyer | No worries. Not a bother at all. What's going on? | 19:36 |
| cjdg | since i saw the news that you wanted to take edubuntu back to life | 19:36 |
| cjdg | i been a user and promoter from more than a decade using it | 19:36 |
| Eickmeyer | It's already a full-fledged Ubuntu flavor now. Beta was released yesterday, published news this morning. | 19:36 |
| cjdg | im already testing it XD | 19:37 |
| cjdg | but i have some ideas | 19:37 |
| cjdg | for further taking back to the development | 19:37 |
| Eickmeyer | Ok, any changes will have to wait until next development cycle, FYI. Feature freeze was a month ago per the Ubuntu Development Cycle. | 19:37 |
| cjdg | ok | 19:38 |
| cjdg | how can i join to the development ? | 19:38 |
| Eickmeyer | Well, you're here, this is where we're going to do development discussions for the time being. | 19:38 |
| cjdg | you see, im from mexico, and i been promoting open source for education since kindergarten to university | 19:38 |
| cjdg | and low economic levels | 19:39 |
| Eickmeyer | Yes, I think I remember getting your email. | 19:39 |
| cjdg | ohh great!!! | 19:39 |
| Eickmeyer | As I understand it you have a classroom full of raspberry pi's? | 19:39 |
| cjdg | not only one | 19:39 |
| cjdg | right now i been installed almost a 1000s | 19:39 |
| cjdg | of pis | 19:39 |
| Eickmeyer | Oh wow. | 19:39 |
| cjdg | for schools | 19:40 |
| cjdg | plus maybe more than 3000s edubuntus installed | 19:40 |
| cjdg | also im a fan of ubuntu studio | 19:40 |
| Eickmeyer | Well, for Raspberry Pi images, we're at the mercy of the Ubuntu Release Team, but that is definitely a goal since I received your email. | 19:40 |
| cjdg | count on me for testing | 19:41 |
| cjdg | i have since the first pi to the latest one | 19:41 |
| cjdg | plus other SBCs | 19:41 |
| cjdg | like orange, banana | 19:41 |
| Eickmeyer | Perfect. What I'd recommend is installing the Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 Beta Raspberry Pi image with the minimal installation option, then installing edubuntu-desktop and letting me know how it goes, because that's basically the same thing. | 19:41 |
| cjdg | ok | 19:42 |
| cjdg | will start to work on that | 19:42 |
| cjdg | by the way | 19:42 |
| cjdg | on the edubuntu | 19:42 |
| cjdg | there was some tools | 19:42 |
| cjdg | like making computers thin clients | 19:43 |
| cjdg | and remote monitoring | 19:43 |
| cjdg | right know i forgot the name | 19:43 |
| cjdg | and i think they are lost | 19:44 |
| Eickmeyer | Right, that was the LTSP project which was spun-off into its own project. | 19:44 |
| Eickmeyer | It sounds to me like you didn't read the announcement: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/edubuntu-23-04-beta-released/34861 | 19:44 |
| cjdg | ohh great thanks | 19:44 |
| cjdg | yes i didnt saw it | 19:45 |
| Eickmeyer | It was tweeted out this morning. | 19:45 |
| Eickmeyer | https://twitter.com/edubuntuproject | 19:45 |
| Eickmeyer | We don't have our own website yet, we're still working with Canonical on hosting. | 19:45 |
| Eickmeyer | I need to update the topic in here... | 19:46 |
| === Eickmeyer changed the topic of #edubuntu to: Edubuntu Development | No supported releases yet | 23.04 beta is out | 23.04 Final due 20 Apr | ||
| cjdg | ok ready, im following you now, both my project and myself, havent see the twitter | 19:47 |
| cjdg | is there a mastodon also? | 19:48 |
| Eickmeyer | Not yet. Again, still beginning stages. While there used to be an Edubuntu, think of this as a rebirth. | 19:48 |
| cjdg | ok | 19:50 |
| Eickmeyer | I'm also working on acquiring the old mailing lists. | 19:50 |
| Eickmeyer | I also have to get the project leader (my wife) in here. | 19:50 |
| cjdg | my wife also loved it | 19:52 |
| Eickmeyer | Excellent. | 19:52 |
| cjdg | count on us | 19:53 |
| cjdg | by the way | 19:53 |
| cjdg | watever you need | 19:53 |
| cjdg | im biologist and inventor | 19:53 |
| cjdg | so im quite related to science, arts (mostly technological) and technology | 19:54 |
| Eickmeyer | Oh, awesome! Well, if you have any suggestions, let us know. Welcome! If you can set-up an IRC bouncer to stay connected, that's probably the best way to keep in touch for now. | 19:55 |
| cjdg | and also we are both related with social activism, hacktivism, open knowledge | 19:56 |
| cjdg | sure | 19:56 |
| cjdg | do you recommend any bouncer? | 19:56 |
| Eickmeyer | A lot of people recommend ZNC, but if you like Quassel as an IRC client the Quassel client-core setup is pretty easy to use. | 20:00 |
| Eickmeyer | Either way, you'd have to have access to an always-on server. | 20:01 |
| Eickmeyer | If you'd like a web-accessible client that's always connected, TheLounge is a good option and there's even a self-hostable snap in the snap store. | 20:03 |
| cjdg | ok | 20:04 |
| cjdg | i have some droplets running on digital ocean | 20:04 |
| Eickmeyer | Oh, perfect! | 20:10 |
| cjdg | im already installing revolution irc on my mobiles so i can be in touch there | 20:18 |
| Eickmeyer | Oh, excellent. I try not to pay too much attention when I'm not at my desk because that gets me in trouble. ;) | 20:22 |
| cjdg | downloading isos and images | 20:22 |
| cjdg | ok | 20:22 |
| cjdg | great job, and thanks for bringing it back, you dont imagine how many people helped, and hope to continue | 20:22 |
| Eickmeyer | Hey, it started when my wife and I went to Prague for Ubuntu Summit and she, an educator herself, was sad to learn of both Edubuntu's existence and demise. So, I looked into what it would take to bring it back and saw that it was possible. With her guidance and my technical know-how, we did it. | 20:24 |
| cjdg | we were trying for almost 5 years to contact the ubuntu team | 20:58 |
| cjdg | to see what we could do to bring it back | 20:58 |
| cjdg | but no response | 20:58 |
| cjdg | since its beginning i was using edubuntu for rescuing old computers donated to kids in schools | 20:59 |
| cjdg | plus being honest, i worked for m$, appl3, and g00gl3 and the things i saw there were disturbing | 20:59 |
| cjdg | plus saw how many countries were coped by the lobbiers | 21:00 |
| cjdg | so since almost a decade i went full foss | 21:00 |
| cjdg | from science, to arts I encourage the use of open source | 21:01 |
| cjdg | so i call myself a "open source yihaddhist" | 21:01 |
| Eickmeyer | Hehe, I like it. I've been leading Ubuntu Studio for 5 years, and am a MOTU, so it was a matter of getting all of the puzzle pieces in order, knowing where to look and who to contact. My wife works for a non-profit here in the Seattle area that helps refugee children from Somalia. She wants to use this in their classrooms. | 21:04 |
| cjdg | i know!! you lead to a great distro, i was involved into the apo33 gnu/linux distro, also i was involved into a international festival, called piksel | 21:07 |
| cjdg | it happens in norway and we made the international tour called transpiksel, is a opensource related arts+science festival | 21:07 |
| cjdg | plus im also involved with a lot of hacktivists | 21:08 |
| Eickmeyer | That's great! | 21:08 |
| cjdg | the only bad thing is that covid shutted down a lot of finances, plus our youngest kid born in the middle of pandemic | 21:09 |
| cjdg | and because he is disabled, i had to step down from those projects | 21:09 |
| cjdg | but those related with education | 21:10 |
| cjdg | im still on them | 21:10 |
| cjdg | and my wife she is entomologist and botannist, and she makes workshops for women | 21:11 |
| cjdg | keeping seed banks, and ecology | 21:12 |
| cjdg | traditional knowledges | 21:13 |
| cjdg | and self sustaining | 21:13 |
| cjdg | gonna go prepar food for family guys | 21:53 |
| cjdg | see you later | 21:53 |
| cjdg | /away | 23:53 |
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