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Fedora Education

This page is kept only for historic reasons!
The Fedora Education Spin was in development from F10 to F12 and has ceased production since then.

Summary

The purpose of this spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also outside of the Fedora ecosystem.

Past Releases

Owner(s)

Name: SebastianDziallas
email: sdz AT fedoraproject DOT org
Name: Education SIG
email: fedora-education-list AT redhat DOT com

Detailed Description

TBD

Benefit to Fedora

This effort helps to increase Fedora's visibility in the educational sector (among the already existing communities like K12OSN, OLPC and Sugar), as we are going to release a spin, which allows students, as well as educators and teachers to use the advantages of open source software not only in classrooms or at work, but also at home.

Kickstart File

ISO Name / FS Label

Fedora-12-i686-Education
Fedora-12-x86_64-Education

Dependencies

To build:

livecd-tools

For packages requiring review, please see the Education Tracker.

Scope / Testing

List of included apps:

both the GNOME desktop environment and the Sugar Platform, as seen on the OLPC
a modified selection of default bookmarks and channels in Firefox and XChat
a number of educational packages, such as KDE Education, Octave or Gnuplot
general development tools like gcc, make, autoconf
the Eclipse environment with support for Python, RPM, LaTeX and Documentation
usually required applications like OpenOffice.org, Gimp and Inkscape
a Moodle instance to showcase an open source learning management system
virtualization support to test projects in sandboxes

For more detailed information, please refer to the kickstart file itself!

Testing might be coordinated with the Education and OLPC SIGs, as well as with the Sugar Community.

Spins Page

Slogan

Contributing to open source education projects. Made easy.

Spin description

Have you ever wanted to contribute - or get others to contribute - to an open source education project, but never found the time to set up and get started? We've got a ready-to-go contributors' (not just code!) environment for you!

Providing students and teachers with a variety of development environments, tools, documentation, and getting-started resources, the Fedora Education SIG achieves its goal of lowering the entry barrier to contributing as much as possible.

The Education Spin features a number of well-received solutions, such as the award-winning Sugar Desktop Environment - as seen on the OLPC and Sugar on a Stick - and the popular KDE Education applications. It also contains a complete Eclipse development stack and other tools, allowing not only an exploration, but also the creation of code.

Screenshot

F12 Education Spin Screenshot

Download tab

no change needed - sticking with the default here

Support tab

Following the goal of making it as easy as possible for students and teachers to dive into open source projects, the Fedora Education Spin comes with a variety of support options.

You can always reach us on IRC in #fedora-edu on Freenode, where you will be automatically connected to when using the included XChat application. Additionally, we encourage you to check the channels of other projects, especially the Sugar Labs (#sugar) and Teaching Open Source (#teachingopensource) ones.

In case you prefer sending an e-mail, you can direct thoughts and feedback at the Fedora Education Mailing List.

Custom branding

TBD

Comments and Discussion

See Talk:Education_Spin

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 = Fedora Education =
+{{admon/important|This page is kept only for historic reasons!|The Fedora Education Spin was in development from F10 to F12 and has ceased production since then.}}
 == Summary ==
-This spin is being designed for mainly educational and scientific purposes and therefore contains a special selections of applications related to these topics.
+The purpose of this spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also outside of the Fedora ecosystem.
+== Past Releases ==
+* [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EducationMathSpin Fedora 10]
+* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Education_Spin&oldid=97007 Fedora 11]
+* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Education_Spin&oldid=130526 Fedora 12]
 == Owner(s) ==
@@ Line 9: / Line 16: @@
 * Name: [[User:sdz| SebastianDziallas]]
 * email: sdz AT fedoraproject DOT org
-* Name: [[SIGs/Education| EDU SIG]]
+* Name: [[Education_SIG| Education SIG]]
 * email: fedora-education-list AT redhat DOT com
 == Detailed Description ==
-Being targeted at students and pupils (but also teachers), this spin is focussed on providing a well-selected collection of useful applications for educational purposes. The users will be able to use a XFCE desktop, which comes along with the [http://edu.kde.org| KDE Education Suite] and further applications, including office and graphic tools. On the other hand, the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/| Sugar Desktop Environment], which has originally been used by the OLPC, but is now [[Features/Sugar| directly available]] in Fedora, will also be disposable.
+TBD
 == Benefit to Fedora ==
-This effort helps to increase Fedora's visibility in the educational sector (among the already existing ones like K12LTSP & OLPC) and to enlarge our community. We are going to release a spin, which allows students, as well as educators and teachers to use the advantages of open source software not only in classrooms or at work, but also at home.
+This effort helps to increase Fedora's visibility in the educational sector (among the already existing communities like K12OSN, OLPC and Sugar), as we are going to release a spin, which allows students, as well as educators and teachers to use the advantages of open source software not only in classrooms or at work, but also at home.
 == Kickstart File ==
-http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/kickstart/livecd-education.ks
+* Development: https://fedorahosted.org/education/browser/kickstarts/livedvd-education.ks
+* Release: https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-education.ks
 == ISO Name / FS Label ==
-* Fedora-11-i686-Education
+* Fedora-12-i686-Education
-* Fedora-11-x86_64-Education
+* Fedora-12-x86_64-Education
 == Dependencies ==
 To build:
 * livecd-tools
-There're no further dependencies needed right now.
+For packages requiring review, please see the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=EducationTracker Education Tracker].
 == Scope / Testing ==
 List of included apps:
-The spin uses XFCE & Sugar as its desktop environments!
+* both the GNOME desktop environment and the Sugar Platform, as seen on the OLPC
+* a modified selection of default bookmarks and channels in Firefox and XChat
+* a number of educational packages, such as KDE Education, Octave or Gnuplot
+* general development tools like gcc, make, autoconf
+* the Eclipse environment with support for Python, RPM, LaTeX and Documentation
+* usually required applications like OpenOffice.org, Gimp and Inkscape
+* a Moodle instance to showcase an open source learning management system
+* virtualization support to test projects in sandboxes
+For more detailed information, please refer to the kickstart file itself!
+Testing might be coordinated with the [[Education_SIG|Education]] and [[OLPC|OLPC]] SIGs, as well as with the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Community].
+== Spins Page ==
+<!-- This information will be used on the spins.fedoraproject.org website.  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009/Mockups/Spins.fpo for more info. -->
+=== Slogan ===
+Contributing to open source education projects. Made easy.
+=== Spin description ===
+Have you ever wanted to contribute - or get others to contribute - to an open source education project, but never found the time to set up and get started? We've got a ready-to-go contributors' (not just code!) environment for you!
+Providing students and teachers with a variety of development environments, tools, documentation, and getting-started resources, the Fedora Education SIG achieves its goal of lowering the entry barrier to contributing as much as possible.
+The Education Spin features a number of well-received solutions, such as the award-winning Sugar Desktop Environment - as seen on the OLPC and Sugar on a Stick - and the popular KDE Education applications. It also contains a complete Eclipse development stack and other tools, allowing not only an exploration, but also the creation of code.
+=== Screenshot ===
+[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F12-Education-Spin.png F12 Education Spin Screenshot]
+<!-- A representative screenshot for the spin.  This will also go on the home tab. -->
+=== Download tab ===
+no change needed - sticking with the default here <!-- For the downloads tab, if you’d like custom text to describe the spin download, add it here. Otherwise the defaults from this mockup will be used: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/ce/Spin-details-download.png -->
+=== Support tab ===
+Following the goal of making it as easy as possible for students and teachers to dive into open source projects, the Fedora Education Spin comes with a variety of support options.
+You can always reach us on IRC in #fedora-edu on Freenode, where you will be automatically connected to when using the included XChat application. Additionally, we encourage you to check the channels of other projects, especially the Sugar Labs (#sugar) and Teaching Open Source (#teachingopensource) ones.
+In case you prefer sending an e-mail, you can direct thoughts and feedback at the Fedora Education [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list Mailing List].
+<!-- What IRC channels or other live support options do users have for the spin (if any), what mailing lists / forums / non-live support options users have for the spin (if any), and what documentation would you like to highlight to new users?  This will go on the support tab.  Here’s an example: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Spin-details-support.png  -->
+=== Custom branding ===
-{| border="1"
+TBD <!-- Some custom branding for each spin, so the different spins pages are distinguishable from one another.  You can see
-|- |rowbgcolor="#3074c2" rowstyle="color: white; font-weight: bold;"
+in this KDE spin mockup at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009/Mockups/Spins.fpo#Spins_Details:_Home_Page
-| '''name''' || '''link'''
+The bar above the tabs that has the KDE logo.  Please let us know what kind of graphic you’d like for your spin. -->
-|-
-| ''education'' ||
-|-
-| avogadro || http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/
-|-
-| kdeedu || http://edu.kde.org/
-|-
-| ''graphics ||
-|-
-| blender || http://www.blender.org/
-|-
-| gimp || http://www.gimp.org/
-|-
-| inkscape || http://www.inkscape.org/
-|-
-| mirage || http://mirageiv.berlios.de/
-|-
-| ''office'' ||
-|-
-| abiword || http://www.abisource.com/
-|-
-| gnumeric || http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
-|-
-| evince || http://projects.gnome.org/evince/
-|-
-| tasque || http://live.gnome.org/Tasque
-|-
-| ''internet'' ||
-|-
-| firefox || http://www.mozilla.com/
-|-
-| empathy || http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
-|-
-| alpine || http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
-|-
-| ''audio & video'' ||
-|-
-| totem || http://live.gnome.org/Totem
-|-
-| ''others'' ||
-|-
-| gbrainy || http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy
-|-
-| geany || http://www.geany.org/
-|-
-| gnash || http://www.gnashdev.org/
-|}
-Testing might be coordinated with the [[SIGs/Education|EDU]] and [[OLPC|OLPC] SIGs, as well as with the Sugar Community, since those also might help with gathering further feedback.
 == Comments and Discussion ==
-* This spin is going to replace the [[Features/EducationMathSpin|Education Math Spin]].
 * See [[Talk:Education_Spin]]
-[[Category:Spins_Ready_For_SIG]]
+[[Category:Spins_Fedora_12]]
+[[Category:Spins_Fedora_11]]

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