[German] Linux Businesss Conference 2005

2005-03-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Why do they only mention "Arktur - der c't Schulserver" and no SkoleLinux? At least I'll be there: http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200504_libcon/index_en.html but it is a medical and no CDD talk an thus my chances are low to put in some Debian-Edu advertising. At least I'll leave this c

[German] Wiens Schulen bis auf weiteres ohne Linux

2005-04-05 Thread Andreas Tille
It seems people in Vienna need some information about SkoleLinux ... Andreas. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58239 Wiens Schulen bis auf weiteres ohne Linux Die Wiener Grünen sind mit einem Antrag zu Umstellung der Wiener Pflichtschulen auf Linux gescheitert. Die drei anderen Gemeinderatsfr

Re: Room reservations for Nafplion

2005-04-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: please let me know if you would bring someone else with you (wife, gf, dog, etc) and you would like a room by yourself. I need a room for my laptop and me. ;-) If it might reduce costs and someone else has no problem that my laptop needs care at le

Re: My Contact details and Room reservations

2005-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Also, please take a look at the room reservations and arrangements I have made. If I have made some mistake about the dates, etc., there's still time to correct it. But please let me know :-) Fine for me. I'm just missing the information about the

Re: My Contact details and Room reservations

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: heh, that was one of the first things i noted about on the event's site. Check: http://events.debian.gr/?q=en/node/71 I hope that will clear things up :-) A, yes sorry - I should probably first read. While reading I stumbled about one page wh

Re: My Contact details and Room reservations

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: basically you might just about make it if you leave immediately. I'll leave immediately when I got my luggage. ...there is a fallback, i'll probably have someone waiting for you guys at the airport to take you by car to the bus station (should be

[OT] Images

2005-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Just in case people who were coming back from Nafplion and are not really able to work after a (hopefully not so) tired trip home just have a look at http://people.debian.org/~tille/nafplion/allindex.html for some random and completely unrelated images to our work. (The images of the wor

SkoleLinux in UK

2005-04-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, after reading http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/695 I wonder whether there are any connections to UK. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SkoleLinux @ Gamesconverntion ?

2005-04-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, in a German news article I read that at Games Convention in Leipzig http://www.gc-germany.de/gcinfo_e.shtml also educational software plays a certain role. I'm quite unsure whether this is really a place for SkoleLinux but it is not my duty to decide this and thus I wanted to foreward

kgeography

2005-04-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just detected this ITP. I guess a sponsor would be needed... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SkoleLinux @ Gamesconverntion ?

2005-04-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, RalfGesellensetter wrote: Are there any adventure like games (like quest for thales or whatever)? I have absolutely no idea about Games Convention and it is definitely not the exhibition of my taste. But I just read that they will include also educational stuff. Thus I wanted

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote: Then we will be less vulnerable in the future, and we will give our users more freedom. You might think about whether your users want freedom of choice of a distribution or just a relieable system. Freedom is a very great word but using freedom sanely r

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Arnt Ove Gregersen wrote: The unpredictable and not-so-frequent releases of Debian worries me. Is it worriing *you* or your *users*. Wanting the latest and greatest software is a very developer centric point of view. Keeping your users busy by providing frequently changing app

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote: Many people feels that Debian is geting weeker, not stronger. May be the reason is that they ignore that inside Debian is moving a lot? May be people tend to follow huge advertisings instead of looking at details? Perhaps even people who are working at deb

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 10 May 2005, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: HINT: the long release cycle is _not_ the problem, the relative immaturity of the Free software Desktop at the time of the last Debian release is. Very good and precise summary of this thread! (Now let this thread die and continue working on Sa

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Would it be at all possible for a semi-official debian-edu/skolelinux backports archive to exist for this? This kind of issues might be solvable in the Custom Debian Distributions framework with separate Packages files http://people.debian.org/~tille/c

Re: CDD-package inside of Debian or out?

2005-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: When a CDD includes only postfix and not 5-10 alternative MTAs, then it is removing the choice of MTA When a CDD includes KDE and not other desktop frameworks then it is also removing choice. If you ask me (personally!) I would love if someone would

Moodle - the Open Source Learning Management System (fwd)

2005-05-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'd like to foreward this because I have not seen many debian-edu list members in Beijing ... Kind regards Andreas. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 00:09:16 -0700 From: kinchew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

[Help] Re: Bug#310817: tipptrainer: Tipptrainer crashes when selecting a 2nd lesson after finishing the first.

2005-05-29 Thread Andreas Tille
f bugs for the moment until a new team might have formed? 3. Are there alternatives for this program which are actively maintained? I would love to see tipptrainer revitalized. Kind regards Andreas. On Sun, 29 May 2005, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2005 19:05 schri

Re: [Help] Re: Bug#310817: tipptrainer: Tipptrainer crashes when selecting a 2nd lesson after finishing the first.

2005-05-30 Thread Andreas Tille
hansen wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Andreas Tille] 3. Are there alternatives for this program which are actively maintained? I'm aware of ktouch for practicing touch typing, but have never tried tipptrainer so I do not know if it is an alternative or not. There is also tuxtype, w

Re: A 10-Level Web Integration Continuum for Higher Education

2005-05-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 30 May 2005, kinchew wrote: No, there is no particular reason for me not to join in the Debian-Edu effort. Sorry, it is just that nobody made the effort to promote it among the participants who attended the Debian Mini-Conference in Beijing. So, if you can introduce the Debian-Edu disc

Re: Bug#310817: tipptrainer: Tipptrainer crashes when selecting a 2nd lesson after finishing the first.

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Conrad Newton wrote: Astri Kleppe had a suggestion that I really liked -- I even posted it on the Tux Typing forum last summer, but I never got any response. The suggestion is to turn it into something more than just a typing program, namely a translation program. The falli

A Server for Education - "WIMS" (fwd)

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, please comment on this to the address below. I guess it might be a clever idea if someone of SKoleLinux fame subscribes to this Asian list. I might get boored to work as proxy. ;-) I expect a great spin off if we get closer to Asia. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.d

Re: A Server for Education - "WIMS" (fwd)

2005-06-02 Thread Andreas Tille
with Debian and educational software in the mailin list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> have no idea about Debian-Edu (aka SkoleLinux). IMHO it would be REALLY important if someone more deeply involved in debian-edu than me would join this list and introduce what happens here in Europe. Andreas Tille

Re: A Server for Education - "WIMS" (fwd)

2005-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Georges Khaznadar wrote: Andreas, would you mind being my sponsor for the wims packages? In principle I do not refuse sponsoring packages. But I'm currently caring for more than 5 maintainers which sums up to nearly 30 packages in the field of medicine. Thus I would love i

Educational software in Japan

2005-06-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, in German Linux Magazin I found a link to http://oss.mri.co.jp/osds/en/ ... seems like SKoleLinux needs to be exported to Japan. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: German dictionaries broken in sarge?

2005-06-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: ingerman - New German orthography dictionary for ispell iogerman - Old German orthography dictionary for ispell please, use the new orthography. Right, so we should use ingerman. Why is there no clean upgrade path from igerman in woody to one o

Re: German dictionaries broken in sarge?

2005-06-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, RalfGesellensetter wrote: Or just because some conservative maintainers fail to understand that new orthography is meant to be compulsary, soon? ;) s/understand/accept/ I failed to understand unreasonable things all my live and have a really hard time to at least to accept

Re: Debian Edu CD: One per language?

2005-06-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: apparent if more languages are to be supported eventually (well, we ARE after world domination right? :-) Yes. :) the stuff we need there. So we might have a skolelinux-en.iso, skolelinux-no.iso, skolelinux-el.iso, etc. I'm not sure whether

Re: Skolelinux in asia

2005-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Is this according to GPL? Yes it is, as long as they offer you to get the sources, too. Under this conditions you could even try to sell it for a Million Euro - people who buy it for this price are obviousely not able to read but the GPL does not

Re: Skolelinux participation at the Edubuntu Summit

2005-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote: They have told me that you (the region) are nothing if you do not have your own Linux-distro. Ups. I'll consider a Wernilux distro (the city I'm living in is called Wernigerode) because my city would be nothing without ist own Linux-distro. Strange lo

Re: Skolelinux participation at the Edubuntu Summit

2005-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote: Ups. I'll consider a Wernilux distro (the city I'm living in is called Wernigerode) because my city would be nothing without ist own Linux-distro. Strange logic ... This was meant a litle bit ironical I belive. ;-) Yes. Sorry I missed the ;-) Yes,

Re: Skolelinux participation at the Edubuntu Summit

2005-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Quim Gil wrote: They worry about the support services as much as (or more than) about the distro itself. That's a very reasonable approach and explains things much better than the initial mail. project is very good news in order to present a Debian-based proposal able to c

Re: [debian-edu] Re: ibuild, the Live CD generator...

2005-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Bill Kendrick wrote: Please, let's move(!) this discussion to debian-custom: More developers knowledgeable in that area is gathered there, and LiveCDs are hardly relevant only for debian-edu. Well, I'm glad it was brought up here, cuz I'm not on -custom, and had never hear

Re: Sponsoring practice? (Was: Want to help out with debian-edu?)

2005-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Raphaël Hertzog] That's not how the "sponsorship" currently works. The DD always rebuilds the source package after having checked the packaging. Is this common practice? Is there some good howtos for sponsoring? I tend to limit myself to the

Re: Updating the web pages (Was: Free and why it will last forever)

2005-08-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Personally, I want to be able to work offline on web pages, and commit/upload them to the server when I get online, and I also want to get an email with the diff of the documents whenever something is changed on the web pages. I would also like to

Re: Updating the web pages (Was: Free and why it will last forever)

2005-08-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, David C. Weichert wrote: Which is a pity since Zope/Plone - which is used - has all these features. There even is a WYSIWYG HTML Editor for non technical people (see demo at: http://www.zfl.uni-bielefeld.de/personal/mjablonski/epoz/index.html) and ... or package zope-epoz ..

Re: Macromedia Flash player distribution

2005-08-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Geert Stappers wrote: The main iso contains a script that has to be invoked by the customer. Where it is a manual intervention, is has several benefits such as knowning for sure there is a Internetconnection and a customer wanting something extra is doing something extr

Re: Macromedia Flash player distribution

2005-08-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I believe the package already exist, and is called flashplugin-nonfree, http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/flashplugin-nonfree.html>. Thanks for the hint. It got 15 bug reports and no uploads since 2004-09-28. Perhaps it is badly maintained? Perh

[German] Bozener Schulen wechseln zu Linux

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, is this "self-developed Linux distribution, based on Debian" in any way related to SkoleLinux or did they reinvented the wheel? Kind regards Andreas. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2005/8598.html Bozener Schulen wechseln zu Linux Gesendet von Christoph Neuroth am Mo, 5. Sep 2005 u

Re: Tagging debian-edu specific bugs?

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Any better ideas, before I start to tag bugs? I like the idea very much (no better idea). If you found a decision please foreward this to the CDD list. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Why acroread instead of xpdf? (Was: A swim in icewm, and a choice of applications.)

2005-09-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The replacement package included in debian-edu is xpdf. Are there problems with xpdf solved with acroread? Some nice features of latex-beamer (for instance transparency in images) are only available with acroread. I would love to switch to xpdf

Re: Why acroread instead of xpdf? (Was: A swim in icewm, and a choice of applications.)

2005-09-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Right. What bug # is this? I would love to have xpdf a full-fledged alternative to acroread myself, as long as the license of acroread is as it is. :) :) Shame on me. I do not remember whether it was you I discussed it personally or somebody e

Re: Why acroread instead of xpdf?

2005-09-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, C. Gatzemeier wrote: PDF Viewers based on the poppler library fork of xpdf, like kpdf, evince etc. seem to do increasingly better than xpdf. Just tested evince which in fact does a better job than xpdf when displaying transparent images. But if it comes to latex-beamer sl

Re: Why acroread instead of xpdf? (Was: A swim in icewm, and a choice of applications.)

2005-09-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Andreas Schuldei wrote: and can you search in pdfs with xpdf by now? Kind regards Andreas. PS: BTW, before you ask, I just filed the evince problem with blank white pages I spoke about in my last mail. In fact evince is promissing but obviuosely needs

142.000 Linux-Rechner für chinesische Schulen

2005-10-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, for the non-German speakers: 141.624 Linux-PCs for schools in China Debian based distribution from Sun Wah --> try to contact Sun Wah whether they use Debian-Edu. I know some of them personally from Asia Mini-DebConf and they are *very* friendly and *probably* very cooperativ

Now Link in English about the Chinese schools

2005-10-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, now I found also an English link to the story: http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20051005183120307 Again: It might be very reasonable to contact the Sun Wah people to strengthen the relation to Debian-Edu. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Edu Extremadura work meeting june 2006

2006-01-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Well, I am interested, but am reluctant to plan anything for mid May to June because my new flat will be ready sometime during that period, and I will be busy moving as soon as it is ready. I have to skip debconf6 for the same reason. :( Quite si

[German] Fehlgeleitete Entwicklungshilfe für Namibia?

2006-01-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, sorry for forewarding German text, but IMHO this might be a valuable information for the SkoleLinux project. Please spread it to / translate it for the people who might be interested. Kind regards Andreas. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2006/9220.html Fehlgeleitete Entwicklungs

Re: Name of next release (was: Release Status, and IRC meeting reminder)

2006-02-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: evangelists fighting over muslim caricatures). Can you imagine how relaxing it is to have one week of skiing and leaving TV, radio and even internet switched of. Sometimes I tend to imagine that the feature of spreading useless information is very d

Re: [proposal] Simplified junior tags & debtags-based replacement for metapackages

2006-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Ben Armstrong wrote: I'm wondering if other CDDs may wish to do something similar. If so, it would be useful to have a "cdd::" aspect to differentiate between different groups of packages within the cdd. Thus, dropping 'priority' because I don't think it adds much, we migh

Re: Skolelinux for Berlin?

2006-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I foreward the mail to two companies that do general Debian support in Germany. Perhaps they will (hopefully) grab the hut. Kind regards Andreas. PS: I'm more or less back online after my moving. More means at work less means once German Telekom will finally manage to pro

Re: Skolelinux for Berlin?

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Michael Meskes wrote: The reason for this is that they are asking for features that Skole simply doesn't have. Could somebody please do some analysis and put the missing features into two groups: 1. To be implemented (hopefully) soon 2. Convince teachers that the fea

Re: Statistics: slschools (graph, maps)

2006-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, RalfGesellensetter wrote: http://www.skolelinux.no/testskoler/map/ or give some hints? Ahhh, the Germans finally occupied Bornholm and the French took over the south of Brittain - interesting development. ;-) I'd suggest to find names like central_europe, western_europe et

Re: adept now in Debian unstable

2006-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Knut Yrvin wrote: Adept is a package manager that looks really cool and is easy to use. Yust for the sake of interest: Could you please compare it with synaptic? Thanks Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

[OT] Development environment for education

2006-09-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I guess this question is OT here, but I hope the low volume of the list might be an excuse. (Is there any better place to ask?) I just had a talk with the ne teacher of my son who also teaches informatics. He started migrating to Linux using dual boot systems and is using Arktur server. I

Re: [OT] Development environment for education

2006-09-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Vedran Vucic wrote: If kids do want fast results than they can do imm ediatelly bash scripting and they will see reulsts very fast. OK. I just take it for a joke. In addition small GUI building is possible with QT and some otyher packages. I do not see so much need for

Re: [OT] Development environment for education

2006-09-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, [ISO-8859-1] José L. Redrejo [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: If I were the teacher I would use Squeak. Children since 7 years old can begin to program with e-Toys and, later, go on with Smalltalk. Squeak works in more than 15 platforms with the same image and has great multime

Re: [OT] Development environment for education

2006-09-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, RalfGesellensetter wrote: Hi this is for serious: Look for Tabea on http://wiki.skolelinux.de... I tried the search field that leaded to http://wiki.skolelinux.de/TabeaTzschachmann that gaves an example how to get nice dialogs with Shell script. Qt3 or Qt4 is simil

Re: Anyone know Indian school distro "[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux."?

2006-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, [UTF-8] ?|Praveen wrote: I'm from Kerala. The distro '[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux' is a customised sarge with educational tools in one CD. It has a Open Office 2 and some new packages from testing. Thanks for the information. Assuming that you know something abou

Re: Anyone know Indian school distro "[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux."?

2006-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, [UTF-8] ?|Praveen wrote: I think it is a good idea to work with Debian Edu (SkoleLinux) team. What do you think? I'm in very big favour of cooperation and integration of your i18n stuff into official Debian which as a consequence will be included into Debian-Edu (=

[OT] XPlanet

2006-10-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I remember that some time ago there was a request to port the script that creates a map of the SkoleLinux schools to the new xplanet syntax. I think I have solved the "riddle" of combinations of config files and command line options of the new xplanet version (1.2). You can have a look into

Re: Send press release about the free Java announcement?

2006-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: So, SUN Java will become free software tomorrow, and we can finally include it on the Debian Edu CD when it happen. Hmmm, I would delay a press release until you compiled it the first time from source on a Debian machine. It lasted some time unt

Re: Bug#399754: FTBFS: Can not require network during build

2006-11-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Goswin Brederlow] A package MUST not require resources outside of the buildd. How could the security team release a new version if the external resources are dead? How can a build be reproduced if the external resource changes contents? This pa

Re: Bug#399754: marked as done (FTBFS: Can not require network during build)

2006-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: debian-edu (0.813) unstable; urgency=low . [ Morten Werner Olsen ] * Add usage() and -h to gen-control as a documentation of the options. * New option for ignoring apt errors in gen-control and use this when updating debian/control

Re: Switching the debian-edu build rule to use cdd-dev? (Was: Bug#399754: marked as done (FTBFS: Can not require network during build))

2006-11-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I had a look at cdd-dev a few months ago, when I started on a cdd package for Debian GIS, with the intention of learing how cdd-dev worked and see how hard it would be to use it in debian-edu as well. The reason is that I would like to switch debia

Re: Bug#399754: marked as done (FTBFS: Can not require network during build)

2006-11-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Holger Levsen wrote: I think re-using code is a good thing (tm) and using the same tools too :-) I was absolutely convinced to attract agreement in principle. ;-)) And/but I also think you should ask this question again, two weeks or a month after debian-edu/etch has bee

Re: ITP: debian-edu-doc

2006-11-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Holger Levsen wrote: I want to create and maintain a debian-edu-doc package similar to the debian-doc package. IMO it should be build from the debian-edu source package and include documentation how to get started in debian-edu as well as keep it running. Great. Keeping t

Re: Package status in Debian-med website

2006-11-29 Thread Andreas Tille
* Debian-Med 0.12 hit testing. This will be probably (correct me if you disagree - I'm open for changing my mind) the Etch-Release version * Andreas Tille started to work on a dbconfig-common based GNUmed-server package * Discussing release goals for Etch+1 * what

Re: Article on KDE usability for Kids

2006-11-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Ralf Gesellensetter wrote: http://reallylinux.com/docs/linuxforkids.shtml is a must for reading ;) Nice. On the other hand I read the article not as "KDE" usability but as "Linux" usability. Formerly I had installed Gnome at my box and KDE (because claimed as easier to us

Re: Wiki: new "Cartography team"

2006-11-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, RalfGesellensetter wrote: xplanet 0.9 from woody! Huh, didn't your read my mail about xplanet 1.x? Perhaps you might like to download http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/mpi-schulung/schulung_0.1.tar.gz go into the directory schulung-0.1/xplanet and have a look

Re: Wy did Skolelinux choose a KDE desktop back in 2001?

2006-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Knut Yrvin wrote: There was several reasons focusing on one, and only one desktop when Skolelinux was initiated back in 2001. Well, I do not really want to discuss or criticise your choice. I just wanted to correct the subject on the previous mail that was not perfectly cho

Re: Why did Skolelinux choose a KDE desktop back in 2001?

2006-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Knut Yrvin wrote: No. Please read the article: Desktop memory usage http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/ OK. If you relay on Office usage (which will probably be the case for students) the numbers sound reasonable. It's probably me who only starts OO if some fool sended me

Re: Etch-Workstation with Sarge-Tjener

2007-01-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Kurt Gramlich wrote: "will you realy take the whole disk ..." should we leave this as a reminder of the norwagian founders of our project? Definitely. But we should add a hint in English: "If you don't understand the question throw a coin to obtain the answer." ;-)

[De] Open Source factory enables us to work on their Debian Box

2007-01-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi all, Open Source Factory is a German reseller of Debian CDs http://www.opensourcefactory.com/cms/index.php?page=Home They want to start an experiment to design their box according to user wishes. This also includes requesting some content of the manual. You can ask for (probably even m

Re: [De] Open Source factory enables us to work on their Debian Box

2007-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just want to notify you that I added some text to their Wiki. Please have a look at http://wiki.opensourcefactory.com/index.php/Diskussion:Handbuch#Anwendungen_in_Spezialgebieten and you are speaking German. Kind regards Andreas. On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Andreas Tille

Re: dosbox and dos software

2007-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, RalfGesellensetter wrote: Hi Kev, didn't know of dosbox, apt-cache search dosbox dosbox - A x86 emulator with Tandy/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics, sound and DOS settlers - settlers 1 vikings - lost vikings Huh, what package sources are you uisng in your sour

Re: dosbox and dos software

2007-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, RalfGesellensetter wrote: # apt-cache policy settlers settlers: Installiert:(keine) Mögliche Pakete:1.0 Versions-Tabelle: 1.0 0 500 ftp://dosbox.microsoft.com ./ Packages :) 500 ftp://boisson.homeip.net ./ Packages :) Hopefully no secret *scnr* I

Schools in Japan and Russia

2007-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, do we have any contacts to Japan? This might be interesting: http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=348867&rel_no=1 Moreover I sendet a letter to Kurt Gramlich with the German info about this case: http://www.gorby.ru/en/rubrs.asp?rubr_id=305&art_id=25507 IM

Re: Linex roadmap

2007-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, [ISO-8859-1] José L. Redrejo [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: We think we can help to DebianEdu and receive a lot of things from DebianEdu. A really great applause from me personally! That's all by now, thanks for your patient reading this long email. I'm sure this is the b

Re: Promotional buttons on web pages?

2007-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, RalfGesellensetter wrote: today, I "enhanced" http://tjener on our installation by two promotional buttons/banners for Openoffice.org and Firefox. This induced some considerations if we should do similar cross project support - on our default pages in /var/www - on our web p

Re: Video: "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)"

2007-04-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I got a tip about the presentation recorded and available from . It is a good talk about how to make a good free software project. Check it out. :) Probably OT here on this list, but

Re: Education metapackages reorganization

2007-06-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: - Add diversions to the desktop menu files. I can not comment on the package selection, but I have a hint to the menu stuff. I know that I failed convincing debian-edu people to use the cdd-dev package to build their packages and I discuss

Re: Education metapackages reorganization

2007-06-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: Sure, your idea looks great, but previously to any discussion, is there any url to take a look at the details of this idea? Well, it's no idea, it is how Debian-Med packages work for years. Just look at them (and their dependencies cdd-comm

LSM at Amiens soeems to be ignored by Debian-Edu people

2007-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, well, if I look at http://www.rmll.info/rubrique11.html?lang=en the reason becomes more or less obvious because it seems to be a francophone with one talks that is in English and the abstract says We disregard that a great number of languages is spoken in our schools, and we often s

Re: Education metapackages reorganization

2007-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: For lenny I would like to do many more changes, including the menu changes to make easy for the teachers finding applications related to their subjects. Obviously any help, comments and arguments are welcome. Regarding to the menu changes I'

Re: Education metapackages reorganization

2007-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: I've begun to look at it in debian-med. But as far as I can see, it affect only to the Debian menu. That's good, but I think it's not enough. Yes. I want to work on the .desktop files, as most users of debian-edu will use kde or gnome, and

Re: 3 developer meetings in Extremadura 2007

2007-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Andreas Schuldei wrote: They will arrange travel inside Europe (exceptions exist), hosting and food for max 20 people working on debian projects for a long weekend in the coming half year. http://wiki.debian.org/WorkSessionsExtremadura still holds. Kudos to the Extremadura

Re: Release 3.0r0 is ready

2007-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Kurt Gramlich wrote: congrats to all, many thanks to all, we will celebrate this evening in Eppendorf / Chemnitz while our http://wiki.skolelinux.de/YoungsterMeeting2006 Congrats as well and I'm a little beit jealous not to be able to come to Eppendorf. :-( Kind regards

Re: Draft live CD (actually DVD) for Debian Edu available

2007-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, RalfGesellensetter wrote: Am Freitag 03 August 2007 08:35 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: Is live DVDs accepted, for example, or should we strive to create 650 MiB images? We could ask Klaus Knopper for the download ratio of Knoppix versions. I doubt that this ratio is real

New gen-control for Debian-Edu (Was: Bug#436831) (fwd)

2007-08-11 Thread Andreas Tille
produce current debian-edu packages in unstable. I'm just hesitate to check this into SVN before somebody else agrees to this plan. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:51:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Tille

Re: New gen-control for Debian-Edu

2007-08-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Plan good. I tested the new script, and as you say it seem to generate the same files. Feel free to commit the updated version to the debian-edu svn repository. It seems I'm lacking permissons for checkin. I did some further changes in directi

Re: New gen-control for Debian-Edu

2007-08-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Right. You need to be a project member. Should I add you to the debian-edu alioth project? This would be nice. Yes. The education-common metapackage is the equvalent of the education-common tasksel task, and it is pulled in by all profiles a

Re: New gen-control for Debian-Edu

2007-08-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Done. Will take effect in a few hours. Commited (Revision 37848). Yes. :) We switched to a tasksel based installation because it will not fail if one of the packages are missing, and it has the concept of core packages and support packages (w

Re: New gen-control for Debian-Edu

2007-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Commited (Revision 37848). Hm, the build fail with this message now: Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing Release Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Fetched 1B in 1s

Re: New gen-control for Debian-Edu

2007-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: I believe so, as the generated package lists are identical before and after. Both the control file, the tasksel file and the list of packages are identical. Thanks for checking and communicating :-) Well, I was not aware that the changes would go in

Re: New gen-control for Debian-Edu

2007-08-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007 21:54, Andreas Tille wrote: Is there any playground for further changes that will not be a release target for the next release? Not really in use currently, but our svn repository has this trunk and branches layout ;-) Well

Re: Reminder: Next IRC-Meeting on Thursday the 23th august

2007-08-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Daniel Hess wrote: Please have a look at the agenda on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Meeting, volunteer for an administrative task (especially the summary writing) and check if the old points still need to be handled at the next meeting (or something is missing). I hope

To trunk or not to trunk (Was: New gen-control for Debian-Edu)

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
-08-21 23:45:43.0 +0200 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ # Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Date: 2001-08-23 # -# # $Id: gen-control 37848 2007-08-14 19:19:36Z tille $ +# # $Id: cdd-gen-control 448 2007-08-11 08:02:48Z tille $ # # Generate the control file used by the CDD task package.

Re: extremadura dates?

2007-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Patrick Winnertz wrote: I would suggest the meeting on october, since this one will be the only meeting where I would be able to attend (caused by university). To be more precise I would have interest in the beginning of October (October 3. to October 7.) because 3. Octobe

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