I liked giving out a CD or DVD with a collection of FLOSS programs during Software Freedom Day and at some of the local Tech Conferences for educators. I've been wanting to put together my own collection of my favorite lightweight portable FLOSS programs for a while now. Haven't been able to get far enough along in the project to come up with anything I can really distribute yet. I have lists of several programs and libraries I'd like to include plus build scripts to automate building them from source plus patches to fix various issues (like portability, bugs, etc.). I tend to highly customize the programs I work with and don't have any issues with patching a FLOSS program to add useful functionality I might need. Since the programs are fairly portable, I haven't decided on a platform. Windows and Linux are both options. Android might be a possibility. I could even potentially design it to work with FreeDOS and djgpp. I haven't found a good way to distribute programs on Linux, but many projects of this nature seem to just do a remaster of a favorite live distribution. With Windows, something like what the portableapps.com project creates is a good way of sharing programs. Plus, teachers and students can use the programs even if they don't have admin rights on the system.
Was wondering if anyone else was working on similar projects or had considered doing a project of this nature or would be interested in discussing various design aspects of a project like this further. It would be nice to be able to collaborate with some other people. Thanks. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
