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== Summary ==
== Summary ==


This spin is being designed for mainly educational and scientific purposes and therefore contains a special selections of applications related to these topics.
The purpose of this spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also outside of the Fedora ecosystem.


== Past Releases ==
== Past Releases ==
[https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Education_Spin&oldid=97007 Fedora 11]
* [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EducationMathSpin Fedora 10]
* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Education_Spin&oldid=97007 Fedora 11]


== Owner(s) ==
== Owner(s) ==
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* Name: [[User:sdz| SebastianDziallas]]
* Name: [[User:sdz| SebastianDziallas]]
* email: sdz AT fedoraproject DOT org
* email: sdz AT fedoraproject DOT org
* Name: [[SIGs/Education| EDU SIG]]
* Name: [[Education_SIG| Education SIG]]
* email: fedora-education-list AT redhat DOT com
* email: fedora-education-list AT redhat DOT com


== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==


Being targeted at students and pupils (but also teachers), this spin is focussed on providing a well-selected collection of useful applications for educational purposes. The users will be able to use a XFCE desktop, which comes along with the [http://edu.kde.org| KDE Education Suite] and further applications, including office and graphic tools. On the other hand, the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Desktop Environment], which has originally been used by the OLPC, but is now [[Features/Sugar| directly available]] in Fedora, will also be available.
TBD


== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==


This effort helps to increase Fedora's visibility in the educational sector (among the already existing ones like K12LTSP & OLPC) and to enlarge our community. We are going to release a spin, which allows students, as well as educators and teachers to use the advantages of open source software not only in classrooms or at work, but also at home.  
This effort helps to increase Fedora's visibility in the educational sector (among the already existing communities like K12OSN, OLPC and Sugar), as we are going to release a spin, which allows students, as well as educators and teachers to use the advantages of open source software not only in classrooms or at work, but also at home.  


== Kickstart File ==
== Kickstart File ==


http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/kickstart/livecd-education.ks
* Development: https://fedorahosted.org/education/browser/kickstarts/livedvd-education.ks
* Release: https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-education.ks


== ISO Name / FS Label ==
== ISO Name / FS Label ==
* Fedora-11-i686-Education
* Fedora-12-i686-Education
* Fedora-11-x86_64-Education
* Fedora-12-x86_64-Education


== Dependencies ==
== Dependencies ==
To build:
To build:
* livecd-tools
* livecd-tools


There're no further dependencies needed right now.  
For packages requiring review, please see the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=EducationTracker Education Tracker].


== Scope / Testing ==
== Scope / Testing ==
List of included apps:
List of included apps:


The spin uses XFCE & Sugar as its desktop environments!
* both the GNOME desktop environment and the Sugar Platform, as seen on the OLPC
* a modified selection of default bookmarks and channels in Firefox and XChat
* a number of educational packages, such as KDE Education, Octave or Gnuplot
* general development tools like gcc, make, autoconf
* the Eclipse environment with support for Python, RPM, LaTeX and Documentation
* usually required applications like OpenOffice.org, Gimp and Inkscape
* a Moodle instance to showcase an open source learning management system
* virtualization support to test projects in sandboxes


{| border="1"
For more detailed information, please refer to the kickstart file itself!
|- |rowbgcolor="#3074c2" rowstyle="color: white; font-weight: bold;"
| '''name''' || '''link'''
|-
| ''education'' ||
|-
| avogadro || http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/
|-
| kdeedu || http://edu.kde.org/
|-
| ''graphics ||
|-
| blender || http://www.blender.org/
|-
| gimp || http://www.gimp.org/
|-
| inkscape || http://www.inkscape.org/
|-
| mirage || http://mirageiv.berlios.de/
|-
| ''office'' ||
|-
| abiword || http://www.abisource.com/
|-
| gnumeric || http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
|-
| evince || http://projects.gnome.org/evince/
|-
| ''internet'' ||
|-
| firefox || http://www.mozilla.com/
|-
| empathy || http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
|-
| alpine || http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
|-
| ''audio & video'' ||
|-
| totem || http://live.gnome.org/Totem
|-
| ''others'' ||
|-
| geany || http://www.geany.org/
|-
| gnash || http://www.gnashdev.org/
|}


Testing might be coordinated with the [[SIGs/Education|EDU]] and [[OLPC|OLPC]] SIGs, as well as with the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Community], since those also might help with gathering further feedback.
Testing might be coordinated with the [[Education_SIG|Education]] and [[OLPC|OLPC]] SIGs, as well as with the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Community].


== Comments and Discussion ==
== Comments and Discussion ==


* This spin is going to replace the [[Features/EducationMathSpin|Education Math Spin]].
* See [[Talk:Education_Spin]]
* See [[Talk:Education_Spin]]


[[Category:Spins_Fedora_11]]
[[Category:Incomplete_Spins]]
[[Category:Incomplete_Spins]]

Revision as of 12:46, 21 July 2009

Fedora Education

Summary

The purpose of this spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also outside of the Fedora ecosystem.

Past Releases

Owner(s)

Detailed Description

TBD

Benefit to Fedora

This effort helps to increase Fedora's visibility in the educational sector (among the already existing communities like K12OSN, OLPC and Sugar), as we are going to release a spin, which allows students, as well as educators and teachers to use the advantages of open source software not only in classrooms or at work, but also at home.

Kickstart File

ISO Name / FS Label

  • Fedora-12-i686-Education
  • Fedora-12-x86_64-Education

Dependencies

To build:

  • livecd-tools

For packages requiring review, please see the Education Tracker.

Scope / Testing

List of included apps:

  • both the GNOME desktop environment and the Sugar Platform, as seen on the OLPC
  • a modified selection of default bookmarks and channels in Firefox and XChat
  • a number of educational packages, such as KDE Education, Octave or Gnuplot
  • general development tools like gcc, make, autoconf
  • the Eclipse environment with support for Python, RPM, LaTeX and Documentation
  • usually required applications like OpenOffice.org, Gimp and Inkscape
  • a Moodle instance to showcase an open source learning management system
  • virtualization support to test projects in sandboxes

For more detailed information, please refer to the kickstart file itself!

Testing might be coordinated with the Education and OLPC SIGs, as well as with the Sugar Community.

Comments and Discussion

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