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DebianEdu is about improving Debian to make it the best distribution for educational use.
The coordination of this project happens on debian-edu@lists.debian.org. You can subscribe to it by using the form available here (public archives of the list are at the same place) : http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/
You can also use the gmane.org news or webforum gateway. nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.education http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
How to help
You can help in many ways :
package and maintain the software listed in ?DebianEduToPackage
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 : ?DebianEduToIntegrate
help with DebianInstaller to get a friendly installer for people with limited computer-skills
- write good documentation for the education related software
- (...)
Metapackages
For an easy installation of the education-related software, we'll create some metapackages for DebianEdu. Here's a preliminary list; feel free to propose changes on the mailing list.
?EducationAstronomy
?EducationBiology
?EducationChemistry
?EducationDesktopGnome
?EducationDesktopKde
?EducationElectronics
?EducationGeography
?EducationGraphics
?EducationLanguage
?EducationLogicGames
?EducationMathematics
?EducationMisc
?EducationMusic
?EducationPhysics
?EducationServices
Feel free to propose enhancements to those metapackages on the mailing list.
Goals
- Classify and package all free software related to education.
- Write documentation to explain how to use the various software (in the educational context).
EyeCandiness aims at beautifying DebianEdu by creating eye candy graphics for it (contact: SurajKumar)
(Q: How about Localization / Internationalization?)
Links
This Debian sub-project should collaborate with many other entities which are interested in free software for education :
http://logiciels-libres-cndp.ac-versailles.fr/ (in french) (initial french-only DebianEdu)
http://www.skolelinux.no/ (in norwegian)
http://developer.skolelinux.no/index.html.en (in english)
http://www.skolelinux.de/ (in german)
http://www.linuxiskolan.org/ (in swedish)
http://www.gnuskole.dk/ (in danish)
http://www.schooltool.org/ school administration software
http://www.k12ltsp.org/ Linux terminal server for K-12 schools
http://edu.laka.lv (in Latvian)
http://www.schoolforge.org.uk FLOSS in UK education
and of course DebianJr (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/) !
http://www.gleducar.org.ar ( in spanish - en espa\x{00F1}ol)
You'll find more links to various educational resources in ?DebianEduBookmarks.