isv:hp:education

Hi all,

On Nov 8, opensuse-edu subscriber Thorsten Wagner posted the following question that I'd like to respond to...

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5) isv:hp:education
The description of this project sounds very interesting to me:
"HP and Novell have joined forces to create the most compelling open source
desktop solution for Schools. From the tremendous work of the openSUSE
Education community, HP and Novell are looking to leverage the openSUSE Build
Service to create a central place where educators and students alike will be
able to find all the greatest open source software for Education."

Currently I miss the announcement of this cooperation on the Novell or HP side.
Can someone please point me to such an official press announcement?
Does this mean, packages in this repository will be official maintained?
But I'm a bit confused as I just see one maintainer of the Education project
being part of the isv:hp:education project - and most of the project-members in
isv:hp:education are from Novell or HP. But many packages in the HP-Repository
are just symlinks to the Education or other projects. Is this intended? Why?
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For now, what I can say about this is that we've started this repo as a proof of concept and are working closely with HP to create something that we hope to work on collaboratively with the opensuse education community.  When we have more details and a concrete plan in place, we'll let everyone know.  You can expect another update within a few weeks.  Good news, of course ;)!

JLS