Libre Software Meeting
Bordeaux July 6 - 10 2004
Bordeaux July 6 - 10 2004
Monika Tieman is member of Skolelinux.de and administrator in several schools in Germany.
Bart Cornelis (also known on-line as cobaco) has been involved with Skolelinux since 2003, and is currently both the coordinator for the Belgian Skolelinux team, and the de-facto coordinator for translation/localization of Skolelinux. As such he is mainly working on the Dutch translation and the localization infrastructure for Skolelinux.
"Skole" is Norwegian for "school". So Skolelinux is a GNU/Linux which has been customized for schools. The project has been started in Norway in 2002 and later has been applied to German and other countries’ languages, too. Skolelinux provides applications in more than 18 native languages.
Skolelinux consists in about 900 packages of Free Software and is included with Debian-edu, a Custom Debian Distribution (CDD). So it belongs to the worldwide Debian Community with more than 1,000 official developers.
Skolelinux is gratis. This means no cost for licences and no worries for teachers, pupils and parents. It contains a lot of educational software, office applications, browsers and email-clients.
Skolelinux provides an excellent base
Overview
What is Skolelinux Software in schools: issues and goals (of SLX) Advantages of Debian Current status (SLX 1.0) Future plans Where to find out more/ to get involved
What is Skolelinux definition: SLX is a CDD for schools
history Software in schools: Issues and goals
(issues = what do schools need)
(goals = how will SLX meet those needs)
1. which software&services to include? suitable educational software suitable network setup only free software
2. initial setup/installation easy, fast, don’t need to be an expert everything works out of the box based on new debian-installer
3. administration/maintenance security (quick security fixes, easy updates) time saving administration, no extra hassle flexibility and scalability good documentation easy to update
4. localisation everything available in local language
5. support Mailinglist/IRC LUG’s consultants/companies
Advantages of Debian stable and reliable fast security fixes worldwide community (more than 1,000 official developers) Free Software (more than 12,000 software packages available) (no fee /licence hassles) worldwide support smoot upgrading
SLX 1.0 an excellent starting point installation
network setup software: Future Plans integrate all packages into Sarge (the next release of Debian) even more localisations improve documentation improve administration tools improve client-side setup of KDE acquire more testers, translators, developers, users help with adoption of SLX in other countries
Where to find out more/get support website:
mailinglists: IRC: #debian-edu @ irc.debian.org talk to us after presentation
