SIGs/Education/Spin

Introduction
The purpose of the current spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational packages within the Fedora ecosystem.

The next spin release date is July 19, 2009, planned to coincide with POSSE. Because of this date, it will be based on Fedora 11 for stability.

POSSE participants (professors teaching courses in open-source participation during the next school year) will serve as this spin's target user base; more broadly, our target users are professors teaching classes (not necessarily education classes) who want their students to contribute to open-source education efforts as part of their coursework. Note that this does not preclude pre-university learners from using this environment! We are just trying to solve the university-contribution problem first, since that's where we think we will have the most starting leverage.

Roadmap
Help: For ways to track issues, please refer to our documentation on trac !

Features
The features list is currently in the brainstorm phase.

What things would you like to see included in this spin? If a feature request maps to a specific package (or bugzilla ticket), please include a link. Wild ideas are fine! Please don't delete anything from this list (yet) - we're trying to generate ideas right now.

Mel Chua made a bookmarks file for this spin. See SIGs/Education/Bookmarks.

Outreach plan
Who should we be asking to try this spin? Give specific names and contact information if at all possible.


 * POSSE 2009 professors (via Mchua)
 * TOS participants (via Mchua - will write a blog post)
 * Sugar Labs developers (via their mailing list)

Resources
Guides on making spins or spin-related materials that may be helpful.


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Creating_Fedora_Remix
 * http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/fc6/en/sn-automating-installation.html