Education Spin

Fedora Education

Summary

This spin is being designed for mainly educational and scientific purposes and therefore contains a special selections of applications related to these topics.

Owner(s)

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

Detailed Description

Being targeted at students and pupils (but also teachers) with an age of probably 12 and above, 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 KDE Education Suite and further applications, including office and graphic tools.

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.

Kickstart File

http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/kickstart/livecd-education.ks

ISO Name / FS Label

• Fedora-11-i686-Education
• Fedora-11-x86_64-Education

Dependencies

To build:

• livecd-tools

There're no further dependencies needed right now.

Scope / Testing

List of included apps:

The spin uses XFCE as its desktop environment!

name	link
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
epdfview	http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/
openoffice	http://www.openoffice.org/
planner	http://live.gnome.org/Planner
tasque	http://live.gnome.org/Tasque
internet
firefox	http://www.mozilla.com/
empathy	http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
audio & video
totem	http://live.gnome.org/Totem
others
gbrainy	http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy
geany	http://www.geany.org/

The testing might be coordinated with the EDU SIG, since they also run special user-group tests to gather further feedback.

Slim needs a modification in slim.conf to login the user automatically. This is currently done via %post, but would be probably better added to the fedora-live-base.ks, since this isn't the only spin using it.

Comments and Discussion

• This spin is going to replace the Education Math Spin.
• See Talk:Education_Spin