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Remote-Learner unveils

September 29th, 2009 by

A little over two months ago,  one of Moodles best partners announced the release of a suite of products called ELIS  http://www.eschoolnews.com/tech-solutions/all-press-releases/index.cfm?i=60118    The products and principles of this organization seem oddly familiar. They support open source for schools, so does the openSUSE for Education project. They support a lower more reasonable TCO for Education Technology, so does the openSUSE for Education project. They really do a great job of supporting these ideals, so does the team from the openSUSE for Education.  Thanks to both efforts open source Education Technology is becoming vastly superior choice.

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openSUSE Edu Li-f-e goes hybrid

September 16th, 2009 by

I am happy to announce that the very first working hybrid iso of openSUSE Education Li-f-e DVD created on openSUSE Build Service is now available for testing.
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Workshop for BITA members

August 25th, 2009 by

I’ll be conducting a full day workshop organized by Baroda IT Association (BITA) on “Opportunities with Linux & Open Source Technology” for it’s members on Saturday, 29th August 2009.

Quoting from the circular sent out:

Friends, it is the time to click on current opportunities with Linux. As you would be knowing that the Higher Secondary School of Gujarat(India) Board Syllabus are now covering Linux, Open Source Technology, Open Office etc….Again, Government also believes and is promoting open source platform. It is high time to capture such business, and so this TECHNOLOGY should be well understood by the BITA Members.

Potential customer-base comprising of more than 5000 Schools, thousands of students, lots of home PCs – today and in near future, there will definitely be a lot of increase in the need of dual-platform in Computer systems. Are we ready for that?

We will be having hands-on sessions on openSUSE-Edu: Li-f-e (Linux for Education) distribution, participants will get to take home a copy too.

More information and participation form (if you are a BITA member) here.

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Education Team Meeting 2009-08-26

August 24th, 2009 by 
We would like to announce, The Education team is meeting on 2009-08-26,
14:30 UTC. We would like to invite all interested parties to join us in
discussing what this years openSUSE for Education group will focus on.

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With GSOC almost over….

August 6th, 2009 by

The openSIS team is proud to announce that the conversion from Postgres to MySQL is nearly complete. Check it out at http://opensis.sourceforge.net  We have a few small bugs in the SQL left in some of the less used features. For the most part the project is on track and we have started to divide the team in two with one half working on bugs, the other working on Moodle integration. By mid fall we hope to have a “push” mode of integration with Moodle version 1.9.5 and hope to have work begun using Moodles new 2.0 version with SIS API.

We have IMHO created what will be the next “killer” , “must have” application  in the education administration venue.  Paired with the offerings produced by my good friends and teammates of the opensuse-education team. I think we will be producing a wonderful tool for all humanity.  A free education software suite.  Much has been done with the ideals founded here, Linkat, and the Edubuntu add-on are just a few. I hope it keeps going , for the children’s sake “let’s make a difference”!

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Li-f-e and KIWI-LTSP updates

August 3rd, 2009 by

Nat Friedman's tip, put image on top of the blog to make visitors stay longer than 26 seconds ;)
openSUSE Li-f-e: Linux for Education DVD and the KIWI-LTSP has been updated.

The changes from the last release:

Lif-e:

– All openSUSE updates including the latest stable kernel 2.6.27.25
– Nvu is replaced by Kompozer
– New KIWI-LTSP images
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Solar Eclipse on your desktop

July 21st, 2009 by

A Celestial event, the sight of the century is happening tomorrow morning here in India. Monsoon clouds may spoil the fun though. Fear not, you can still see how exactly the event will unfold. Grab Li-f-e DVD if you don’t have it already or if you have openSUSE 11.1 installed, use this 1-click to install Stellarium.

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Li-f-e updated

July 14th, 2009 by

The Li-f-e: Linux for Education DVD has been updated, here are the important changes:

* Gnome 2.26.3
* Firefox 3.5
* Latest Sugar, Browse activity now using Mozilla xpcom and xulrunner version 1.9.1
* All openSUSE 11.1 updates since last build

Happy learning…

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openSUSE Li-f-e sweetened by Sugar

July 1st, 2009 by

Sugarlabs, creators of Sugar desktop environment for children recently released Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) Strawberry flavor. Strawberry is based on Fedora 11.

openSUSE Education team have also been working on getting Sugared up openSUSE in various (yet to be named) flavors :). Thomas C Gilliard (satellit) has put up openSUSE-Sugar VMWare appliance, get it from here. Apart from VMWare appliance openSUSE-Sugar is also available in live CD and USB/flash stick version.

Here are the instructions for running VMWare appliance. To deploy USB stick image, download the image – openSUSE-Sugar-liveUSB-unstable.i686-0.X.X-BuildX.XX.raw.bz2. and run this command to deploy on the stick plugged in /dev/sdX.

bzcat imagename.raw.bz2 | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4k

Run dmesg to find out where the USB is plugged in, replace /dev/sdX with the actual device, for example: /dev/sdb and umount it before running this command.

We also have openSUSE Li-f-e : Linux for Education DVD that has Sugar launcher right on the gnome desktop, it contains same number of activities as Sugar only flavors.

David Van Assche(nubae) and the Moodle team are putting together great numbers of useful courses on newly launched education portal http://linux-for-education.org. Here teachers and students can find courses that helps learning their preferred subject with the aid of Li-f-e and other educational distributions. Check out the courses on Sugar and Perfect openSUSE Education Desktop.

Happy learning…

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openSUSE Day at the LinuxTag

June 26th, 2009 by

If you’re in Berlin or nearby, be sure to visit LinuxTag this week! LinuxTag runs through Saturday, June 27th. Don’t forget, Saturday is openSUSE Day at LinuxTag! We have great talks in store for everybody at LinuxTag, including presentations on LTSP in openSUSE, Wine on openSUSE, AppArmor, and what’s new in openSUSE 11.2.

Make sure you do not miss Easy-LTSP presentation by Jan Weber tomorrow, I have vested interest in that one 😉

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