Greetings Technical Board! My wife (Amy) and I attended Ubuntu Summit in Prague and she felt very inspired by many of the talks in terms of advocacy and education.
She was a little disappointed, however, that the education flavor (Edubuntu) was no longer around. For some background, she's a 15+ year early childhood educator, and works for a non-profit here in the United States that is a resource for refugee children from Somalia. As you can imagine, Ubuntu is a very strong concept for this organization. With that, after much discussion, we have decided that, as a couple, we would like to revive Edubuntu with Amy as the flavor lead and myself as the technical lead/MOTU. Luckily, much of the old pieces of the puzzle are already in place, so it's somewhat of a matter of getting access to those pieces, and then re-establishing the flavor. We have been added to the Edubuntu Council team (https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-council) as administrators, which meets the requirements of establishing an owning team. However, you'll notice that this team owns nothing. We need to establish ownership of the Edubuntu Developers team (https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev) which is currently owned by a dummy owner owned by the technical board. Therefore, our next steps, we believe, are the following, and correct me if I'm wrong: 1) Establish Edubuntu Council as owners over https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev which would give us access to the packaging repositories. 2) Gain access to the seed at https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ ubuntu-seeds/+git/edubuntu, which I believe would actually require forking the seed? Basically, it would be silly to have to constantly throw pull requests here. 3) Work on the seed and line it up with Amy's vision 4) Re-establish it as an official flavor The vision so far is to keep the GNOME desktop and partner with the Desktop Team, providing any assistance there as needed. It would install every edubuntu-* metapackage by default, but also have a tool similar to Ubuntu Studio in that it would also have a meta uninstaller so the system could be customized to not have the tools that it doesn't need for a particular age group (i.e. early learning doesn't need algebraic tools, etc.). Likewise, there would also be a tool similar to ubuntustudio-installer that would allow the metas to be installed on all flavors. However, the advantage of having an all-in-one .iso image is that it saves time during installation and is easier in areas with slow or no internet, and would also contain a few special "customizations" for education (logos, wallpapers, etc.). I hope we can reestablish Edubuntu as Amy has a wonderful vision for the project, and I know this was one of Ubuntu's general goals in the past. -- Erich Eickmeyer Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio Ubuntu MOTU -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
