• DebianEdu

DebianEdu / Skolelinux

• DebianEdu

  • is a Debian project to make the best distribution for educational purposes.

  Skolelinux

  • is the name of a CustomDebianDistribution which is produced by the DebianEdu project.
    "Skole" ([skuːl]) is the Norwegian form of "school". Both "skole" and "school" comes from the Latin word "schola".

Goals

• Provide a complete software solution using free software and ...
  • tailored for the needs and use-cases in educational scenarios.
  • preconfigured for easy installation (standalone, as well as network-wide rollout).
  • easy to use, maintain, and administer.

  • supporting your language natively.

• Classify and package all free software related to education.
• Write documentation to describe how to use the various softwares (in an educational context).
• International availability, currently being translated into XX languages

Get started

• See /GetStarted for how to get Skolelinux.

• Also, fetch some /Documentation and have a look at it.

• If you need help, see below!

Need help?

• Please try to learn more about DebianEdu first. Use the search function of this wiki!

• At least take a quick look at the pages for /Documentation, /Help, and /FAQ.

• If you don't find usable information and solutions for your problem, talk with us. See below!

Talk with us

ML - mailing lists

• The coordination of this project happens on the debian-edu mailing list.

  • Go there to subscribe to the list, browse its archives, or view some statistics.
  • If you only want to drop an email then just do so; you don't have to subscribe to the list. (But please mention that you are not subscribed.)

  • GMANE provides a news gateway and a webforum gateway to this list.

• Further /MailingLists deal with user support, translation, and other issues.

  • GMANE provides gateways to them as well.

IRC - internet relay chat

• irc.debian.org
  channel	topic	language
  #debian-edu	development talk	english
  #skolelinux	user/admin support	multilanguage
  #skolelinux.de	user/admin support	german
  #skolelinux.fr	user/admin support	french
  #cipux	development ldap user admin tool	english

Learn more

What's here

DebianEdu Wiki

• We try to put all useful information (or at least links to it) into these pages.
• You can also edit everything or place comments on any page; this is a wiki! (You may have to login first.)

• Any change in the DebianEdu section of the wiki will be noticed by the DebianEdu team.

  1. DebianEdu/About
  2. DebianEdu/AdminTool
  3. DebianEdu/AdminToolForEtch
  4. DebianEdu/ArchivePolicy
  5. DebianEdu/AtDebconf5
  6. DebianEdu/Bookmarks
  7. DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia
  8. DebianEdu/Bug311188
  9. DebianEdu/BugReporting
  10. DebianEdu/Celestia
  11. DebianEdu/CipUX
  12. DebianEdu/Contribute
  13. DebianEdu/DebTags
  14. DebianEdu/Desktop
  15. DebianEdu/DevCamp2006
  16. DebianEdu/DevCampFrance2007
  17. DebianEdu/Devel
  18. DebianEdu/Discussion
  19. DebianEdu/Documentation
  20. DebianEdu/DonateMoney
  21. DebianEdu/Download
  22. DebianEdu/EU Project
  23. DebianEdu/EnclosingNotes
  24. DebianEdu/Etch
  25. DebianEdu/Extremadura2006
  26. DebianEdu/Extremadura2007
  27. DebianEdu/Extremadura2008
  28. DebianEdu/FAQ
  29. DebianEdu/FlashInDebianEdu
  30. DebianEdu/Flyer
  31. DebianEdu/French
  32. DebianEdu/Gathering
  33. DebianEdu/GetStarted
  34. DebianEdu/GreenIT
  35. DebianEdu/Hardware
  36. DebianEdu/Help
  37. DebianEdu/HowTo
  38. DebianEdu/Infrastructure
  39. DebianEdu/InterwikiNetwork
  40. DebianEdu/JavaInDebianEdu
  41. DebianEdu/LdapifyServices
  42. DebianEdu/LinEx2DebianEdu-Roadmap
  43. DebianEdu/Links
  44. DebianEdu/MailingLists
  45. DebianEdu/Meeting
  46. DebianEdu/MeetingAdminTool
  47. DebianEdu/MeetingWebInt
  48. DebianEdu/MovingFrAddonsIntoBase
  49. DebianEdu/NewContributor
  50. DebianEdu/NewDevelopersHelp
  51. DebianEdu/News
  52. DebianEdu/OLPC
  53. DebianEdu/PackagesOnlyInLinex
  54. DebianEdu/PagesToMoveHere
  55. DebianEdu/PopularityContest
  56. DebianEdu/PressRelease200601
  57. DebianEdu/PressReleases
  58. DebianEdu/Product
  59. DebianEdu/ReferenceSchools
  60. DebianEdu/ReleaseNotes
  61. DebianEdu/ReleaseNotes 3.0 Terra
  62. DebianEdu/ReleaseSchedule
  63. DebianEdu/Sarge
  64. DebianEdu/SiteMap
  65. DebianEdu/SkoleLiveCd
  66. DebianEdu/SkoleLiveRouter
  67. DebianEdu/SkoleLiveWorkstation
  68. DebianEdu/Software
  69. DebianEdu/Status
  70. DebianEdu/Tasks
  71. DebianEdu/Teams
  72. DebianEdu/TerraKioskMode
  73. DebianEdu/ToDo
  74. DebianEdu/ToIntegrate
  75. DebianEdu/ToPackage
  76. DebianEdu/UnderstandingThinClients
  77. DebianEdu/Uploaders
  78. DebianEdu/UserSurvey
  79. DebianEdu/WebAccess
  80. DebianEdu/WebMnt
  81. DebianEdu/WikiAdmins
  82. DebianEdu/five-year
  83. DebianEdu/kschoolmenu
  84. DebianEdu/roadmap
  85. DebianEdu/wwwToDo

Metapackages

• For an easy installation of the education-related software, there are some metapackages for DebianEdu.
  see packages : education-tasks (all education-*packages)

• Here's a preliminary list; feel free to propose changes (to this as well as to the metapackages) on the mailing list.

Other resources

• Our bug tracking system

  • View existing bugreports and feature requests; or create new ones.

  Linux Signpost

  • Become informed about alternatives to 'standard' commercial software and using linux.

Other languages: French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish

• We have a 2 page flyer availible in over a dozen languages (as PDF and for OOo), including:

  French

  • http://www.skolelinux.fr/ and DebianEduFrench

  German

  • http://www.skolelinux.de/ and http://wiki.skolelinux.de/

  Greek

  • http://www.skolelinux.gr/

  Norwegian

  • http://www.skolelinux.no/

  Polish

  • http://www.skolelinux.org/pl/

  Spanish

  • http://www.skolelinux.es/

Participate

Our meetings

• Preparing the next IRC meeting

  1. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060119
  2. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060206
  3. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060220
  4. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060306
  5. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060320
  6. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060403
  7. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060410-WebInt
  8. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060501
  9. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060508
  10. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060529
  11. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060626
  12. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060821
  13. DebianEdu/Meeting/20060925
  14. DebianEdu/Meeting/20061016
  15. DebianEdu/Meeting/20061030
  16. DebianEdu/Meeting/20061113
  17. DebianEdu/Meeting/20061211
  18. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070108
  19. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070129
  20. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070222
  21. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070510
  22. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070520
  23. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070705
  24. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070709
  25. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070717
  26. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070722
  27. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070813
  28. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070823
  29. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070910
  30. DebianEdu/Meeting/20070926
  31. DebianEdu/Meeting/20071008
  32. DebianEdu/Meeting/20071112
  33. DebianEdu/Meeting/20071126
  34. DebianEdu/Meeting/20071203
  35. DebianEdu/Meeting/20080121
  36. DebianEdu/Meeting/20080310
  37. DebianEdu/Meeting/VoteForDate

Help us improve

Everyone can help

• You can help in many ways:

  • take a look at some possibilities to /Contribute to DebianEdu;

  • write good documentation for the education related software;

  • join one of our /Teams;

  • (...)

Tasks for Debian Developers

• You can help in many ways:

  • package and maintain the software listed in /ToPackage

  • package and maintain any software listed in Ofset that is not yet in Debian

  • sponsor non-Debian developers who are packaging education related software

  • integrate existing external packages into Debian; see /ToIntegrate

  • help with DebianInstaller to produce an even friendlier installer for people with limited computer-skills

  • (...)