[19:35] <cjdg> hi there, one question, does anyone how can i contact , @eickmeyer?
[19:35] <Eickmeyer> I'm right here.
[19:35] <cjdg> hi man, sorry for bothering you, but i was trying to contact you for some months
[19:36] <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.
[19:37] <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.
[19:38] <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
[19:39] <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.
[19:40] <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.
[19:41] <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.
[19:42] <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
[19:43] <cjdg> like making computers thin clients
[19:43] <cjdg> and remote monitoring
[19:43] <cjdg> right know i forgot the name
[19:44] <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
[19:45] <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.
[19:46] <Eickmeyer> I need to update the topic in here...
[19:47] <cjdg> ok ready, im following you now, both my project and myself, havent see the twitter 
[19:48] <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.
[19:50] <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.
[19:52] <cjdg> my wife also loved it 
[19:52] <Eickmeyer> Excellent.
[19:53] <cjdg> count on us
[19:53] <cjdg> by the way
[19:53] <cjdg> watever  you need
[19:53] <cjdg> im biologist and inventor
[19:54] <cjdg> so im quite related to science, arts (mostly technological) and technology
[19:55] <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.
[19:56] <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?
[20:00] <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.
[20:01] <Eickmeyer> Either way, you'd have to have access to an always-on server.
[20:03] <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.
[20:04] <cjdg> ok
[20:04] <cjdg> i have  some droplets running on digital ocean 
[20:10] <Eickmeyer> Oh, perfect!
[20:18] <cjdg> im already installing revolution irc on my mobiles so i can be in touch there
[20:22] <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
[20:24] <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.
[20:58] <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
[20:59] <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
[21:00] <cjdg> plus saw how many countries were coped by the lobbiers
[21:00] <cjdg> so since almost a decade i went full foss
[21:01] <cjdg> from science, to arts I encourage the use of open source 
[21:01] <cjdg> so i call myself a "open source yihaddhist"
[21:04] <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.
[21:07] <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
[21:08] <cjdg> plus im also involved with a lot of hacktivists 
[21:08] <Eickmeyer> That's great!
[21:09] <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
[21:10] <cjdg> but those related with education
[21:10] <cjdg> im still on them
[21:11] <cjdg> and my wife she is entomologist and botannist, and she makes workshops for women
[21:12] <cjdg> keeping seed banks, and ecology
[21:13] <cjdg> traditional knowledges
[21:13] <cjdg> and self sustaining
[21:53] <cjdg> gonna go prepar food for family guys
[21:53] <cjdg> see you later
[23:53] <cjdg> /away