Re: meeting time poll results

2009-10-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Jordan Mantha wrote: > 17:00-19:00 UTC Saturday > 17:00-19:00 UTC Sunday > 13:00 UTC Thursday > 01:00 UTC Tuesday > > I would suggest maybe we should maybe rotate between 19:00 UTC > Saturday/13:00 UTC Thursday or 19:00 UTC Sunday/01:00 UTC Tuesday to > keep the days fairly close in the week but d

Re: meeting time poll results

2009-10-20 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Jordan Mantha wrote: >> 17:00-19:00 UTC Saturday >> 17:00-19:00 UTC Sunday >> 13:00 UTC Thursday >> 01:00 UTC Tuesday >> >> I would suggest maybe we should maybe rotate between 19:00 UTC >> Saturday/13:00 UTC Thur

Re: retirement

2009-10-20 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jordan Jordan Mantha wrote: > generation of Edubuntu leaders and contributors to arise. With the new > DVD-based release I think Edubuntu is starting to regain some > developmental footing. What is needed is new enthusiasm, new ideas, > and fresh hands to make it happen. I agree, and thanks fo

Edubuntu 9.10 Released

2009-10-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone Today marks the release of Edubuntu 9.10. While things were a bit wobbly for this release at some stages, everything pulled together and the resulting product of everyone's work turned out to be really good. Edubuntu 9.10 is now a DVD installation as many requested since the switch to

Re: Clean up of proposed Edubuntu Member applications

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jordan Jordan Mantha wrote: > During our last meeting we discussed the state of the Edubuntu Members > Launchpad team [0], particularly the fact that we have about three > times as many "proposed" members as current members. The vast majority > of the proposed members are completely unknown to

Edubuntu Meeting, Thursday 15 November 2009, 19:00 UTC

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu land! Our next meeting is taking place this Thursday at 19:00 UTC. Next week is the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Texas, USA so we'll be using this meeting to prepare and discuss some things for the summit. Please update your availability for the next two meetings over the next two weeks

(correction) Re: Edubuntu Meeting, Thursday 12 November 2009, 19:00 UTC

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Sorry, that should of course be Thursday 12th of November, not the 15th. -Jonathan Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Hi Edubuntu land! > > Our next meeting is taking place this Thursday at 19:00 UTC. Next week > is the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Texas, USA so we'll be usi

Edubuntu Council Elections

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi As most of you noticed, the Edubuntu project have been going through some big changes recently. Something we have been working on with the Ubuntu Community Council for a while now is to have the Edubuntu Council back to a reasonable size (5 members). That's why, today, we announce that there w

Bug Day

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Greetings! Yesterday was our first bug day in... I guess ever. The following bugs got some hugs: * Bug Closed (wontfix): https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edubuntu-addon-meta/+bug/265041 * Bug Closed (wontfix): https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edubuntu-artwork/+bug/269

Re: Bug Day

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Scott Balneaves wrote: > I'd like to re-iterate (as I'm sure everyone's sick to death of hearing me say > it) that *THIS SOFTWARE IS YOUR SOFTWARE*, this is a community driven project, > and if people want it to be successful, they need to get involved in > meanin

[ubuntu-za] Edubuntu

2010-01-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Charl On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Charl Wentzel wrote: > I'm busy downloading Edubuntu 9.10 for a friend and got a shock when I > noticed that it is now a 3.3GB DVD download.  I've rather enjoyed the > fact that Ubuntu downloads have always been CD-sized. > > Despite the band-width shock,

Re: [ubuntu-za] Edubuntu

2010-01-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Sorry if this caused any confusion, I replied to the wrong list. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Hi Charl > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Charl Wentzel > wrote: >> I'm busy downloading Edubuntu 9.10 for a friend and got a shock

Re: Looking for testers - gcompris

2010-01-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Bruno On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Bruno Coudoin wrote: > Le mardi 05 janvier 2010 à 23:39 +0100, Bruno Coudoin a écrit : > Not sure I mentioned it. It is fixed now. It was working in windows > mode, not in full screen. All that you mentioned is that I should read the manual ;) > BTW, W

Fwd: Meeting Summary 2009-01-20

2010-01-20 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
20 January 2010 == Present == • stgraber • highvoltage • Lns • mgariepy • alkisg • dhillion-v10 == Technical == • stgraber thanked all for helping for the alpha2 release. • We now have an alpha release! • stgraber has a patch that makes liveltsp possible on the Canonical build servers, Lamont w

Wiki Hug Day Results

2010-01-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
A few times before we decided to basically start over with our wiki. Instead of taking a drastic approach, we decided to filter through everything and keep any pages with historic or any future value. Pages that had lots of obsolete information with no historic value were deleted. Also pages with f

Team Reports

2010-01-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Greetings! It's almost the end of the month so the time for Edubuntu team reports is here again. Here are the Edubuntu team report drafts for December and January, we'll submit them some time during the week so if you have anything to add/correct/etc, please do so: * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edu

Fwd: [Ltsp-discuss] Announcing LTSP-Cluster's website

2010-01-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
I thought I'd forward this here as well since we have lots of LTSP users who might be interested! -- Forwarded message -- From: Stéphane Graber Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:14 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Announcing LTSP-Cluster's website To: ltsp-develo...@lists.sourceforge.net, l

Re: Ship epiphany, make it the "default" browser?

2010-02-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Scott Balneaves wrote: > After a few weeks of testing, I'd like to make a, err... Possibly > controversial > suggestion. :) > > Certainly not for Lucid, but say, for 12.04, it might be interesting to switch > to Epiphany for Edubuntu's "Default" web browser. Here's why: > > 1) It's based on Web

Edubuntu Developers Delegation

2010-02-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Greetings The Edubuntu Council[1][2] hereby applies for delegation of developers as outlined on the Ubuntu wiki[3] for the ~edubuntu-dev[4] team. The ~ubuntu-core-dev[5] and ~developer-membership-board[6] teams have been invited to join the ~edubuntu-dev team. It's currently unclear[3] whether

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

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
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

Edubuntu Council Charter updates

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
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: Next Bug Day is February 23

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
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: edubuntu-dev approved for Edubuntu uploads

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 10/03/2010 01:45, Stéphane Graber wrote: > I wasn't able to attend the Technical Board meeting myself today but the > result is that edubuntu-dev is now approved for uploads in either main > or universe for packages in the Edubuntu package set. That's great news! I was wondering about this this

Meeting Notes, 17 March 2010

2010-03-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Greetings! Notes from tonight's meeting: 17 March 2010 == Present == • sbalneav • highvoltage • alkisg • mgariepy • stgraber • Lns == Technical == • LiveCD is still without squashfs, I emailed lamont about it but haven't received a reply, I'm not sure whether he's actually around atm • GDM b

Meeting Notes - 2010-03-24

2010-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Next meeting is 31 March, 19:00 UTC. These notes were taken in a hurry so if there's any questions, shout! 24 March 2010 == Present == • alkisg • highvoltage • Lns • stgraber • mhall119 • nixternal == Technical == • LTSP ∘ uploaded LTSP 5.2.1 and LDM 2.1.1 • LTSP-Live now works!

Meeting Notes - 31 March 2010

2010-03-31 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Net meeting is on 7 April 2010, feel free to add agenda items on https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda if anything needs to be discussed and if you're planning to attend! Today's meeting notes: 31 March 2010 == Present == • mhall119 • bencrisford • stgraber • mgariepy • high

Meeting Notes - 2010-04-14

2010-04-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone Thanks to those who keep attending these meetings, our community is starting to finally take shape, I think we have great potential for the next release cycle that will start in about a month or so! The next meeting is at 19:00 UTC on 21 April 2010. Notes from tonight's meeting: 1

My ideas for Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick)

2010-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Last meeting we started talking about how we're going to plan for maverick. I suggested that we note our current ideas and merge them together in a gobby session that we can add to a wiki page and discuss during the UDS period. Here are my ideas so far, they might not all be good for the ne

Re: My ideas for Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick)

2010-04-20 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jordan On 19/04/2010 18:39, Jordan Mantha wrote: >> Moodle's maintenance isn't currently that great, imho we should probably >> catch up on what's been going on in Debian and merge efforts there. > > The last emails I got from the Moodle maintainers in Debian was that > the were considering orp

Edubuntu Maverick Packaging Work

2010-05-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi, here's a dump of the discussion from the packaging session at UDS today. We'll probably put together something nice at some point: = UDS Session - 12 May 2010 = Spec page: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-maverick-edubuntu-packages Related spec (schooltool): https:

No Edubuntu Meeting Tonight

2010-05-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Due to many people being at UDS and others not being able to make the meeting tonight, it has been canceled. We will catch up on UDS at next week's meeting. -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Edubuntu Maverick Packaging Work

2010-05-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Caroline On 12/05/2010 16:39, Caroline Ford wrote: > There's a language pack issue that's been caused by the removal of > edubuntu packages from main that needs looking at. Translation > regression in lucid that I don't have time to look at, but I'm getting > complaints about. Do you perhaps h

UDS Notes Dump from community session

2010-05-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi, below is a dump from our notes from the community UDS session this afternoon, it's unfiltered and raw but we'll put together something nicer later on... = UDS Session - 12 May 2010 = Blueprint: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-maverick-edubuntu-community Agenda:

UDS Notes Dump For Edubuntu Installer Session

2010-05-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Some rough unfiltered notes from our session this morning: = Edubuntu Installer Improvements = Blueprint: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-maverick-edubuntu-ubiquity == Progress in Lucid == * Dropped alternate installer from DVD * LTSP installation is now availab

Re: Fwd: [moodle-packaging] Time to Orphan?

2010-05-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jeremy, Dan, Penny and others On 12/03/2010 13:27, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I also don't have the skill to complete the 1.9 packaging. I'm > forwarding this to the Edubuntu developers as moodle has been part of > their suite for a while. Posting this to edubuntu-devel too, but will probably conti

Re: [moodle-packaging] Fwd: Time to Orphan?

2010-05-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Tomek On 19/05/2010 19:59, Tomasz Muras wrote: > I would love to see more people joining as maintainers of Moodle in > Debian. If you want, I can put on the wiki some further ideas that I > have about improving the package. You could also start with taking the > package from git and checking if

Meeting Notes: 19 May 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
19 May 2010 == Present == • mhall119 • bencrisford • highvoltage == Agenda == • UDS Wrap-up • Moodle Packaging • Website update • LP Team changes • Advocacy team == Technical == • UDS was last week • Blueprints: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Devel/RoadMap • highvoltage will put together sp

Meeting Notes - 2 June 2010

2010-06-02 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Next Edubuntu meeting is on Wednesday, 9 June at 20:00 UTC. Here are some bullet points from tonight's meeting: 2 June 2010 == Present == • bittin • alkisg • highvoltage • bencrisford • stgraber • Lns == Technical == • 1st alpha release tomorrow • Release schedule: https://wiki.ubuntu.co

No Edubuntu Meeting Tonight

2010-06-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Apologies for the short notice, but tonight's Edubuntu meeting has been canceled. Also apologies for my absence over the last few weeks, I'm finally making my long awaited trip to Canada tomorrow, and not only will I be going there I'm also moving there which was a bit of a last-minute decisi

Edubuntu Meeting Notes - 2010-08-04

2010-08-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Below are some meeting notes from the Edubuntu Meeting from this afternoon: == Present == • alkisg • dinda • highvoltage • Lns • dgroos • pleia2 • uros01 • renglaji == Technical == • Alpha 3 release is tomorrow, testing will be required • Current image is broken, new image will be availabl

Alpha 3 Testing

2010-08-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi All! Here are the Alpha 3 images available for testing: * http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/20100805/ You can add testing reports here: * amd64: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/test/4397 * i386: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/test/4398 And file any bugs that you encounter on

Re: James Liu (USC-Los Angeles, CA): Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello!

2010-08-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi James On 08/08/2010 13:52, James Liu wrote: > My name is James Liu. I am new to this list and so I wanted to introduce > myself. I am a student at USC (University of Southern California, NOT > South Carolina) and have been contemplating the possibility of using the > Edubuntu package to create

Meeting Notes - 11 August 2010

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Here's some notes from the meeting from a bit earler... Please expand if I left something out :) 11 August 2010 == Present == • bencrisford (Ben Crisford) • dgroos (David Groos) • highvoltage (Jonathan Carter) • mhall119 (Michael Hall) • rockstar (Paul Hummer) === Technical === • Artwork packa

Re: Meeting Notes - 11 August 2010

2010-08-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Thanks David :) On 11/08/2010 21:10, David Groos wrote: > Slight addition/correction: > > • dgroos will create a blog post detailing the idea of a "BasicSetup" > page on the wiki. (done) > • highvoltage will look to get the basic content of that post, somehow, > on 'Planet Ubuntu' in an effort to

Re: Set of "BasicSetup" how-to's" for Lucid Edubuntu

2010-08-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David Yesterday I searched for Edubuntu on YouTube and was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of training videos that different users created for Edubuntu. It seems that for some people at least, creating a video of how you do it and explaining alongside is easier than typing up a howto in d

Re: Helping new users with setting up Edubuntu server

2010-09-03 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 17/06/2010 21:53, Belinda Lopez wrote: > Not sure there is a long term vision for edubuntu at the moment. :-( > It's being driven by the developer community and they have done an > outstanding job to keep the project moving forward. Other than > blueprints for the next cycle I would love to s

Re: Instructions to install LTSP

2010-09-03 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David On 19/06/2010 23:51, David Groos wrote: > If you have poked around Edubuntu and the Live LTSP environment and > you decide that you’re ready for the real thing, you can install > Edubuntu and an /Install LTSP/ option will also appear on the > desktop. It pretty much only a

Re: Edubuntu package inclusion/licensing for sandbox game maker

2010-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Scott On 09/09/2010 14:49, Scott Howard wrote: > I'm the debian & ubuntu maintainer of Sandbox Game Maker [1,2]. The > package will be making it's debut in 10.10. Sandbox is a kid friendly > video game design software intended for primary school (and secondary > school) children. They can desig

Re: Edubuntu School Server in a Box blueprint

2010-09-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jorge On 16/09/2010 02:44, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 04:27:34 Belinda Lopez wrote: > It could provide: firewall, qos, proxy with content filtering, ldap > management, > samba, etc and it's already in Ubuntu :) > > https://launchpad.net/~zentyal > http://www.z

Re: Edubuntu School Server in a Box blueprint

2010-09-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Belinda On 15/09/2010 22:27, Belinda Lopez wrote: > I created the blueprint for the School server in a box idea we discussed > at last week's meeting. The blueprint can be found here: > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/school-server-in-a-box > > though now that I'm looking at

Re: documentation blueprint

2010-09-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Vikram On 03/06/2010 01:44, Vikram Dhillon wrote: > Alright people, here's the link [1] to the blueprint, as you can tell, > currently its not so good shape so please feel free to modify and I > guess we can talk about in more depth on the next meeting :) > > [1]: > https://blueprints.edge.lau

Re: [ubuntu-art] The Breathe Icon Set is up for grabs

2010-09-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Cory On 19/09/2010 19:36, Cory K. wrote: > Holy Hell. I started this set 2 years ago? > https://launchpad.net/breathe-icon-set Wow. I do feel old. :P (another > reference: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2008-September/007559.html) > > Anyhow, life got complicated as it does

Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

2010-09-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Ubuntu Developers (snip original very, very long e-mail about Edubuntu originally typed) Here are some ideas we've been discussing in Edubuntu for Natty and Natty+1. They probably won't fit in to one single Ubuntu track, so I opened a new thread on this list (hope that's ok). They aren't all i

Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

2010-09-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Ubuntu Developers (snip original very, very long e-mail about Edubuntu originally typed) Here are some ideas we've been discussing in Edubuntu for Natty and Natty+1. They probably won't fit in to one single Ubuntu track, so I opened a new thread on this list (hope that's ok). They aren't all i

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

2010-09-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Scott On 30/09/2010 14:42, Scott Howard wrote: > I adopted qcad in Debian recently and would be happy to fix this ASAP > (in experimental at least). Just to be clear, what is the problem with > the depends? I believe qcad-doc should Recommend qt3-assistant instead > of depend. > > It's related

Edubuntu Screenshots - Edubuntu 10.10 Documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Docteam Note that if you have taken any screenshots for Edubuntu 10.10, the default font has changed yesterday to the Ubuntu family font. It's not a change applied implicitly, but inherited from the Ubuntu settings. Using the older font on screenshots is fine too, users probably care more abo

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David On 30/09/2010 17:46, David Farning wrote: > This past release has seen the complete packaging of Sugar, originally > created for the one Laptop per child project, for Debian and Ubuntu. > For the upcoming cycle, > > 1. I will commit to sponsoring maintainers for Sugar .88 on maverick > a

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David On 30/09/2010 17:19, David Groos wrote: > Jonathon, thanks for including all in the visioning with these e-mails. I'll spare you from my how-to-spell-jonathan page this time :) > You mentioned, 'new iTALC'. Have you had a look at Alkis' sch-scripts? > Sounds like a bunch of scripts ma

Edubuntu 10.10 Released!

2010-10-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Edubuntu 10.10 has been released! http://edubuntu.org/news/10.10-release Thanks to everyone who made it possible! -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel

Edubuntu 10.10 Installation Guide

2010-10-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu Developers I've linked the Edubuntu 10.10 Installation guide[1] that I've been working on from the Edubuntu Documentation page[2]. I've seen it too much recently and I'm probably reading over many mistakes without realising it. If any of you have some time to look through it and let m

No Meeting next week

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi All There will be no Edubuntu weekly meeting next week, since most of us will be in Orlando for UDS and probably attending sessions during our usual meeting time. -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu

No Edubuntu Weekly Meeting Today

2010-10-27 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Please note that there will be no Edubuntu weekly meeting today. It will be back as usual next Wednesday, details on the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https:

Edubuntu Council Renewals

2010-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu users and developers! In a bit more than a month, the current Edubuntu Council's term will be coming to an end and will be up for renewal. It's unlikely that we'll do re-elections, we will probably have one or two current council members stepping down because of other responsibilities

Fwd: Re: Artwork Team

2010-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
hough! So if you have any ideas or suggestions feel free to make use of the process below. -Jonathan Original Message Subject: Re: Artwork Team Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:05:51 -0400 From: John Baer To: Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) Jonathan, I would like to open up the creati

Re: Fwd: Re: Artwork Team

2010-11-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi > Original Message > Subject: Re: Artwork Team > Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:05:51 -0400 > From: John Baer > To: Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) > > Jonathan, > > I would like to open up the creation of the Edubuntu default wallpaper > to a wi

Call for comments on application selection

2010-11-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Natty daily builds are working and in a pretty good state currently, you can get them from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/20101129/ At UDS it was decided to be more inclusive and rather include a package than not, and then have a call for comments before the first alpha release on wh

Fwd: [ubuntu-art] Re ady for Edubuntu Wallpaper Submissions

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Forwarding from ubuntu-artwork (for those who are interested in artwork and aren't subscribed there yet): Original Message Subject: [ubuntu-art] Re ady for Edubuntu Wallpaper Submissions Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 18:22:08 -0800 (PST) From: j_baer Reply-To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwo

New Edubuntu members and application for Edubuntu-dev

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Michael Hall and Belinda Lopez are applying for Edubuntu Membership. Since they are both Ubuntu members they can get Edubuntu membership for free. If there's no objections to adding them both to Edubuntu members, I will continue doing so: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/mhall119 https://wiki.ubuntu.co

Edubuntu members and Edubuntu Developer

2010-12-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu Developers We welcome the following Edubuntu members. They are both existing Ubuntu members who have been involved in Edubuntu and have recently applied for membership: Belinda Lopez: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelindaLopez Michael Hall: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/mhall119 I initially wrot

Edubuntu Live Welcome

2010-12-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Happy holidays! I've started working on the Edubuntu Live Welcome slides, it's meant to be displayed on Edubuntu Live media to welcome users to the system and explain what they have actually started up. In natty it's currently available from the edubuntu-live-welcome package, if you're on maveric

Fwd: [Edubuntu Webcontact] Education Menu Names

2010-12-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
This is a message sent via the Edubuntu web contact form. There's still time to discuss and implement for Natty if anyone wants to take it up. Otherwise we could also take it up at the next UDS. -Jonathan Original Message Subject: [Edubuntu Webcontact] Education Menu Names Date:

Edubuntu Council Updates

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Greetings! As voted by the Edubuntu Members[1], Marc Gariépy[2] joins the Edubuntu Council[3] to serve for the next term of 2 years. Jordan Ericksson[4] and Richard Johnson[5] has stepped down from the Council due to other commitments. We thank them for their role in Edubuntu so far and hope that

Sugar in Edubuntu 11.04

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! At UDS there was discussion about Sugar and that we should look at it again for inclusion for Edubuntu. Previously the packaging was either not available or in a state of flux or the current state of Sugar was just not usable. I briefly looked at it again a few weeks ago, and in my opinion it

Re: Sugar in Edubuntu 11.04

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David On 10/01/11 02:37 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > Out of curiosity, what's missing that would make it usable. If its > activity packages, then that could be remedied by packaging, which is > relatively straight forward and would require choosing which activities > should be bundled for edub

Re: Update on the future of qcad (a popular CAD package) in Debian

2011-01-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Scott Thanks for the heads-up, from Edubuntu we might not be able to contribute much directly to improving LibreCad itself, but we'll make some noise and spread awareness about it and will gladly ship it once it's ready for mass-consumption. -Jonathan On 11/01/11 01:03 PM, Scott Howard wrote:

Re: Nanny new version released

2011-02-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hola Álvaro On 08/02/11 06:27 AM, Álvaro Pinel wrote: > Hi, yesterday has been released a new version of nanny (parental > control): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nanny/2.31/. > > Juanje Ojeda told me you're the manteiner of the package. From > Guadalinex we're interested on the new pack

Edubuntu Artwork for 11.04

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Earlier in this cycle we talked to John Baer to put together a spec for artwork in Edubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0006_Edubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper It produced the following results so far: http://www.flickr.com/groups/uawt-6/ Some are nice and I think we should include it in th

Re: Edubuntu Wallpaper

2011-02-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi John On 16/02/11 12:36 PM, John Baer wrote: > I am sorry to hear of your decision and I certainly echo my appreciation > to everyone who posted wallpaper submissions. > > Please don't feel the need to respond but if I had been asked I would > have suggested Martin add his illustration to the

Edubuntu Meetings

2011-02-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi The few of us that was at the Edubuntu meeting today decided that it might be better to switch to monthly Edubuntu meetings instead, and schedule any additional meetings as needed (before freezes, releases, etc). I propose that we have a meeting once a month ont he last Wednesday of the month

Fwd: Edubuntu and DebianEdu/SkoleLinux cooperation

2011-02-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
ordero To: Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) Hi Jonathan, As I told you in December I am now very much involved with the Debian-Edu team. I was elected into the board of FRISK last December. FRISK is a Norwegian organization working for the further development of DebianEdu/SkoleLinux and also working with t

Edubuntu Alpha 3 Testing

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu Developers I'm currently testing Edubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3, due for release tomorrow. There are plenty of known bugs which should be fixed in the final release. Now is a good time to make sure we at least /know/ of all the important bugs so that they don't dissapear under the radar. If y

More on Edubuntu and DebianEdu/SkoleLinux cooperation

2011-03-06 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu'ers I heard back from Rubén who wanst to help us set up better colaboration with Debian-Edu/Skolelinux. We'll have some representatives from their team joining us in our Edubuntu monthly meeting on the 30th Meeting details: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda There will

Re: Nanny new version released

2011-03-07 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Álvero On 08/02/11 06:27 AM, Álvaro Pinel wrote: > Hi, yesterday has been released a new version of nanny (parental > control): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nanny/2.31/. > > Juanje Ojeda told me you're the manteiner of the package. From > Guadalinex we're interested on the new packag

Edubuntu Bug Hug Day

2011-03-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Bugsquashers! Tomorrow is the Bug day for... Edubuntu! The announcement from the Edubuntu website is right here: http://edubuntu.org/2011-02-23/edubuntu-bug-day-10-march List of bugs currently tracked in Edubuntu: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs You do not need to

Edubuntu UI Changes

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear documentation team For those who are working on Edubuntu and related documentation, please take note of the following: * The edubuntu-live-welcome greeter is being removed since we couldn't complete it in time. Please don't include it in any screenshots or guides. * The current Ubiquit

Edubuntu UI Updates

2011-03-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Docteam A quick note to notify you on some Edubuntu progress and changes: * The updated ubiquity-slideshow source package was accepted a few hours ago, the new slideshow should be available in the Beta image * The installer text for selecting Unity in the installer has been updated to reflec

Edubuntu Monthly Meeting Minutes for Wednesday, 30 March 2011

2011-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu developers (and debian-edu developers) We had Rubén Romero y Cordero and Arnt Ove Gregersen from Debian-Edu (also known as Skolelinux) joining us so that we can discuss collaboration between the two projects. Two areas we identified as possible starting points are: 1. Packaging work:

Reminder: Edubuntu Meeting Today: 19:00 UTC

2011-05-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone! We have an Edubuntu meeting scheduled for today at 19:00 UTC on #ubuntu-meeting on freenode. It's our first meeting after UDS and the 11.04 release. It will probably be mostly discussion around that and updating our roadmap. Sorry for the late reminder, I'll send it out sooner next

Re: Sabayon and Unity Interface

2011-05-31 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Steve On 31/05/11 01:04 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote: > There's a thread running at the moment about current versions of > Ubuntu/Edubuntu and their respective support for things, but I'm > specifically interested in (concerned about) the new Unity UI and the > profile lockdown tool Sabayon in future

Edubuntu Developers

2011-06-03 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! The Edubuntu Developers group in Launchpad allows members of the group to upload to Edubuntu branches and packages in the Edubuntu package set in the Ubuntu archives. At some point a few of us in the Edubuntu Council were applying but it was decided that since the team is owned by the EC it w

Re: Upload permissions for edubuntu-dev

2011-07-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 04/07/11 01:20 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > * Alkis Georgopoulos +1 > * Jonathan Carter (myself) +1 > * Marc Gariepy +1 > * Stephane Graber +1 -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscrib

Upload permissions for edubuntu-dev

2011-07-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! The following Edubuntu contributors are applying for edubuntu-dev status: * Alkis Georgopoulos * Jonathan Carter (myself) * Marc Gariepy * Stephane Graber All of the above mentioned have previously had upload rights to this package set via the Edubuntu Council group, which owns the edubuntu-

Changes in Edubuntu Developers

2011-07-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! This e-mail is to notify the DMB of changed in the Edubuntu Developers[1] team in Launchpad. Until recently, team ownership implied team membership in Launchpad. Since the most active Edubuntu contributors are also on the Edubuntu Council[2], who owns the Edubuntu Developers team, we've never

Edubuntu Council Elections

2011-11-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Edubuntu Users and Developers The Edubuntu Council[1] is up for re-election[2]. If you'd like to nominate an Edubuntu Member[3] for the Council, please confirm with the person that he or she is willing to stand and then post the nomination to either myself[4] or to the Edubuntu Developers[5]

Re: Edubuntu Council Elections

2011-11-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Dear Edubuntu Users and Developers > > The Edubuntu Council[1] is up for re-election[2]. If you'd like to > nominate an Edubuntu Member[3] for the Council, please confirm with the > person that he or she is willing to stand and then post the no

Meeting Reminder: Wednesday, 30 November 2011

2011-11-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu Developers Our next IRC meeting is on Wednesday, 30 November 2011. * Time: 19:00 UTC * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda * IRC network: freenode: irc.freenode.net * Channel: #ubuntu-meeting Edubuntu IRC meetings takes place on the last Wednesday of every

Reminder: Edubuntu Meeting Tonight

2011-11-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone Just a reminder of tonight's Edubuntu meeting: * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda * Time: 19:00 UTC * Network: freenode * Channel: #ubuntu-meeting See you there! -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Some nice words from the CC

2011-12-01 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
We just had what was meant to be an Edubuntu Council update with the Community Council, but it ended up being more of an Edubuntu update in general. We got some kind words that I thought I should share with the list: 12:26 < highvoltage> so yes, I guess this was more of an Edubuntu update than an

Re: New Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter section

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Chris! (removed the other derivatives to avoid spammage) On 11-12-06 04:35 AM, Chris wrote: > I'd like to take this opportunity to tell everyone about the new section on > the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. It's a section devoted to the development of > the official derivatives of Ubuntu. For this

Reminder: Edubuntu meeting tomorrow

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi everyone Happy new year! Just a reminder that we have an Edubuntu meeting tomorrow. If you have anything you'd like to bring up, feel free to add it to the agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Mod

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