Looking for recomendations: scanner

Hi All, I'm looking to get a scanner or two in my classroom and want to get something that works well with Edubuntu thin clients. I'm not very knowledgeable about scanners and would appreciate you sharing your experience and advice. Not looking for anything high end but also want something that

Looking for recommendations: simple GIMP

Hi All, I want students to be able to annotate images, such as photos taken through a microscope, adding arrows and labels to parts of the image, for example. It might also be nice if there were contrast/brightness/saturation controls. Need the ability to export back to jpeg/png. I don't want re

Re: Looking for recommendations: simple GIMP

Cool solution Antonello! I'll give it a try. This sounds like a simple and complete solution. David On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:10 AM, antonello facchetti < antonello.facche...@alice.it> wrote: > David Groos ha scritto: > > Hi All, >> >> I want students to be able to annotate images, such as pho

Edubuntu Meeting Notes from 17 Feb 2010, 19:00 UTC

Greetings Below are some notes from last night's meeting. The next meeting is the same time next week, 24 February 2010 at 19:00 UTC. 17 February 2010 == Present == • Lns • sbalneav • stgraber • highvoltage • alkisg • joerg • mgariepy • Riddell == Technical == • Edubuntu daily builds are wor

Re: Looking for recomendations: scanner

Hi David, On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, David Groos wrote: > I'm looking to get a scanner or two in my classroom and want to get > something that works well with Edubuntu thin clients. I'm not very > knowledgeable about scanners and would appreciate you sharing your > experience and advice. Not looking

Edubuntu Council Charter updates

Hi! We've received some questions regarding our EC charter and whether we'll elect a leader or chairperson for the Edubuntu project. There is also question on what we would do in the event of a split vote, since we have an even amount of members. Last night, the EC met and decided that there w

Re: Looking for recommendations: simple GIMP

I tend to use Inkscape a lot for that kind of thing. It's a little bit more friendly than GIMP and does raster graphics which often look nicer. I used it for annotating all my figures in my dissertation. -Jordan On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:42 AM, David Groos wrote: > Hi All, > > I want students to

Re: Next Bug Day is February 23

Hi Scott Scott Balneaves wrote: > Have a look at: > > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs I've updated the list, it brings the bug count for tracked bugs up to 306, most of them coming from dia: * Anki: 12 * Marble: 0 * Vym: 10 * Gbrainy: 2 * Ri-li: 0 * Dia:

Re: Looking for recommendations: simple GIMP

I think you should try kolourpaint. Nigel On Feb 18, 2010 11:46 PM, "Jordan Mantha" wrote: I tend to use Inkscape a lot for that kind of thing. It's a little bit more friendly than GIMP and does raster graphics which often look nicer. I used it for annotating all my figures in my dissertation.