SIGs/Education/EducationLive

Fedora Education Spin

Here we're going to track the progress and decisions made concerning this spin, which is intended for educational purposes.

Please don't hesitate to come up with new ideas or suggestions on our fedora-education-list mailing list.

Fedora 10

For Fedora 10, our first official release was targeted towards mainly mathematical purposes. You can see it's feature page here.

The kickstart file for the Fedora Education Math Spin for Fedora 10 is located in the spin-kickstarts GIT repository.

http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git?a=blob;f=fedora-livecd-education-math.ks;

The Education Math Spin has been released for F10 and is availabe at the spin tracker.

Fedora 11 and onwards

Fedora 11 is coming up and we're working on a new concept for a spin! There'll be some major changes in comparison with what has been worked out for F10. Here's a preliminary list with notes regarding to the spin.

• In a meeting, we decided to the XFCE desktop environment. For further information, please see below.
• The target audience of the spin will be extended: We're going to focus on more than just "mathematics"!
• We're going to provide a useful number of applications, without going to include all available stuff! Sorry, but therefore, the spin won't contain seven geometry programs.
• We might include the Sugar Desktop Environment as an alternative on the spin.

Get It

sdziallas has worked on a first draft of a kickstart file. It's located here:

http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/kickstart/livecd-education.ks

Note: An updated version is in work, this one needs to be updated.

Default Apps

Here's a list of applications which will be on the spin (this information may be subject to change). Please feel free to add your suggestions together with a comment. The table contains applications related to education, as well as some important desktop stuff.

name	comments	status	link
education
avogadro		added	http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/
kdeedu		added	http://edu.kde.org/
graphics
blender		added	http://www.blender.org/
gimp		added	http://www.gimp.org/
inkscape		added	http://www.inkscape.org/
mirage		added	http://mirageiv.berlios.de/
office
dia		removed	http://live.gnome.org/Dia
epdfview		added	http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/
openoffice	without locales	added	http://www.openoffice.org/
planner		added	http://live.gnome.org/Planner
tasque		added	http://live.gnome.org/Tasque
internet
firefox		added	http://www.mozilla.com/
empathy		added	http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
thunderbird	suggestion	pending	http://www.mozilla.com/
audio & video
totem		added	http://live.gnome.org/Totem
others
gbrainy		added	http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy
geany		added	http://www.geany.org/
grisbi		suggestion	http://www.grisbi.org/
mysql	suggestion	pending
httpd	suggestion	pending

• How about additional educational software?
• Which programming languages do we want to add?

Comments

Please feel free to add any comments here!