Re: The Debian Education distribution

> > [ To the press team: feel free to reformat the announce, and please send
> >   it to debian-news or debian-announce ]
> ... and please mention anywhere that those links contain only French
> content - or at least one visitor is to stupid to find a translation.
> 
> >                 The Debian Education distribution
> >
> > Back in 1998, the French Board of Education committed itself to
> > promoting the use of Free Software, especially in high schools, where it
> About two years ago I talked with Thierry Laronde in Bordeaux about
> the Pingus distribution which might be the root of the project announced


The Pingus distribution is server oriented. It was made by the Conseil
General 74 (Haute-Savoie). Therefore it is quite different from the
Debian Education Distribution which is workstation oriented.

> by you.  I just repeat what I said these days:  In my opinion it i better
> to integrate a subproject *into* Debian than basing a distribution
> *on* Debian.  In my opinion you could learn from Debian-Junior and
> do a Debian-Edu project.  The advantages of this strategy will be explained
> in my talk on LinuxTag in Karlsruhe at Fr 7. June, 10:00.  I will make
> the slides available soon in the Debian-Med tree - another subproject like
> Debian-Junior.

I agree with you and this is what we tried to promote since 2 years at
OFSET by first building up a list of free education oriented software
and then eventually packaging them for Debian. However we have been
quite short in volunteers to help in this task.
http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/edusoft.html
http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/faq.html
http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/

Hilaire






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