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About Debian Edu / Skolelinux

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About Debian Edu / Skolelinux
Get started
Documentaion
Help
Talk to us and participate
Reports, presentations experiences
Learn more

The Skolelinux Desktop

What is it?

Debian Edu
- is a Debian project to make the best distribution for educational purposes.
  You can read more about here.
Skolelinux
- is the name of a Debian Pure Blend which is produced by the Debian Edu 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.

Homepage vs. Wiki

http://www.slx.no is the Homepage of Debian Edu, it's task is to represent Debian Edu.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu is the Wiki of Debian Edu, it's task is to assist active users and developers.

Get started

Consider running a test installation with virtual machines.
A list of tested hardware is available. Please update it with the computers you have available.

Download

See how to ?download or ?order Skolelinux.

Install

Fetch some Documentation and have a look at it. The first chapters of the manual provide a good overview.

Use

Start using your new system!
Remember, that Debian Edu is 99,9% Debian, so almost all help for using Debian also applies to Debian Edu.

Documentaion

Manuals

	Manuals
	Thorough books covering multiple topics

Howtos

	Howto
	Shorter articles covering a specific topic or problem

Educational software

	Educational software
	Overview of software available in Skolelinux

OpenOffice

	OpenOffice.org
	OpenOffice.org's support pages

Debian

	Debian GNU/Linux
	Debian's support pages

Help

Please try to learn more about Debian Edu first.
Use the search function of this wiki!
If you don't find usable information and solutions for your problem, talk to us. See below!

Frequently asked questions

	Frequently Asked Questions
	Frequently asked questions – with answers :-)

Free help

	Free help
	How to get in touch with the voluntary community, and how to proceed in order to get answers to your questions

Professional help

	Professional help
	Skolelinux consultants

Talk to us and participate

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

Our meetings:

Preparing the next IRC meeting

Contribute - Help us to 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
- help with this Wiki
- (...)

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
- (...)

Reports, presentations experiences

Reports

	Reports
	Independent reports about or relevant to Skolelinux

Presentations

	Presentations
	Presentations held by the Skolelinux team

User experiences

	User experiences
	Problems, solutions and success stories from users of Skolelinux

Learn more

Metapackages

Here you can find a complete list of packages which are included by the Debian Edu metapackages; feel free to propose changes (to this as well as to the metapackages) on the mailing list.
For an easy installation of the education-related software, there are some metapackages for DebianEdu.
see packages : education-tasks (all education-*packages)
If you are a developer you might be interested to fix some bugs. Have a look at the bugs of related packages.

Debian Edu 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 Debian Edu section of the wiki will be noticed by the Debian Edu team.
Go here for a complete SiteMap.

skolelinux.no

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

We have a 2 page flyer availible in over a dozen languages (as PDF and for OOo), including:
French
- http://www.skolelinux.fr/ and fr/DebianEdu
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/

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= Documentaion =


== Manuals ==
||<rowspan=2> {{attachment:manuals.png}} ||'''[[DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals| Manuals]]''' ||
||Thorough books covering multiple topics||


== Howtos ==
||<rowspan=2> {{attachment:howtos.png}} ||'''[[DebianEdu/Documentation/HowTo| Howto]]''' ||
||Shorter articles covering a specific topic or problem||


== Educational software ==
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||Overview of software available in Skolelinux||


== OpenOffice ==
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||OpenOffice.org's support pages||


== Debian ==
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||Debian's support pages||



= Help =
 * Please try to [[#Learn|learn more]] about Debian Edu first.
 * Use the search function of this wiki!
 * If you don't find usable information and solutions for your problem, talk to us. See below!

== Frequently asked questions ==
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== Free help ==
||<rowspan=2> {{attachment:free_help.png}} ||'''[[DebianEdu/Help/FreeHelp| Free help]]''' ||
||How to get in touch with the voluntary community, and how to proceed in order to get answers to your questions||


== Professional help ==
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||Skolelinux consultants||



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== Contribute - Help us to 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]]
   * help with this Wiki
   * (...)

=== 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 [[http://www.ofset.org|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
   * (...)



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== Reports ==
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||Independent reports about or relevant to Skolelinux||


== Presentations ==
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||Presentations held by the Skolelinux team||


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 You can help in many ways:
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   * write good documentation for the education related software;
   * join one of our [[/Teams]];
   * (...)

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==== 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 [[http://www.ofset.org|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
   * (...)

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