Yesterday Mediaplaza organized an afternoon program about the possibilities of Linux and Open Source software in the educational system. As part of the program I gave an presentation where I introduced Edubuntu and the possibilities it offers. Followed up by a tour/workshop which allowed participants to get a little bit familiar with the Edubuntu GNOME [...]

For at least half a year now I regularly meet en talk to people to see what can be done to solve the current obstacles which prevent adoption of open source software in schools. There was some initiative to get some regional educational organisations together to demand Linux versions of commonly used software from the [...]

After postponing the cookbook meeting for almost two weeks we finally met today. Which basicly came down to “we’ll just start writing now, else it will never be finished”. To waste no time on futher specifying the content. Which results in less structure but more creative freedom for the authors. At the moment only me [...]

At the last Edubuntu meeting we discussed the Cookbook progress which was unfortunately not really there. Besides that there was some misunderstanding of the role of the Cookbook between the Cookbook maintainers and the rest of the Edubuntu team. Unfortunately their focus was on hacks which they use in daily use but are definitely not [...]

Just finished up my first part of the Cookbook Hardware requirements. It stills needs a second pair of eyes to check some things through but I think the point is there. Talking about Edubuntu,.. tomorrow (Mar 22) at 12:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting. The cookbook worksheet still hasn’t been updated with status information so at least [...]

Ogra came up with the following video clip during the Edubuntu meeting today: http://80.237.148.5/cebit.avi Quite cool. I hope that Ubuntu gets more media exposure after the dapper release. It is certainly ready for it with dapper. ps. German sounds so cute. :p

Since this afternoon I’m an Ubuntu member! Besides the school project where I blog about regularly I have some other current work in the pipeline: Writing a part of the EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook Extensive (end-user) feedback from school project to Edubuntu. Writing some documentation regarding LTSP use.