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[Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 17/12/14 19:59, Israel wrote:
> On 12/17/2014 06:55 AM, Ali Linx wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Quickly writing this crazy idea before it vanishes :D
>> 
>> While I was chatting with Kibo's Member (Staff) on IRC, I found
>> this account who just followed me:
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/UbuntuMail
>> 
>> I sent them this: 
>> https://twitter.com/amjjawad/status/545199498100613121
>> 
>> After I did, I had this thought in mind: Aren't we FLOSS
>> non-profit project? Aren't we are doing all that because we do
>> love helping others, etc? Aren't we need to spread the word of
>> ToriOS around the world so everyone can use it and save their
>> money?
>> 
>> Are you thinking what I'm thinking?!
>> 
> Hi Ali, I think schools could greatly benefit from our OS.  I think
> it would also be nice to make something similar to the dev tools
> assistant (can't remember what it is actually called) on Fedora. 
> Basically have a simple interface (maybe similar to the settings 
> manager) where the user can click a button and install things
> easily.  I attached a simple design...  We can of course use the
> normal category icons, and whatnot.
> 
> In order to do this we'd need everyone on the list and in social
> media land to contribute information about what they install for
> these cases. The when the user is ready to install we could make a
> list of the programs to be installed (probably with human readable
> titles not just package names) and let the user remove items from
> the list that they may not want. This is a fairly simple program to
> make if it is done with a combination of fltk and system() plus
> some handy zenity bash scripts... otherwise it would take me a long
> while to figure out how to interface with dpkg/apt and pkexec or
> whatever I need for privaleges... there may be an existing library
> that makes this very easy, but I have never thought about making 
> this type of program so I really don't know.
> 
> 

What is installed depends on age and where a child is in school, for
example you may install gcompris for younger children and simple
games,  for UK primary you can install scratch,  web browser etc

the issue arises when you have kids who are gifted and talented and
have moved beyond scratch,  you can install python, ruby etc for those,
but  it may only appeal to a small group of children within one school.


different schools teach different things,  a lot of education
website4s seem to be written so that they only work properly in IE
(things are improving) I have had reports that scratch for the iPAD
works differently to normal scratch and is causing problems.

however as you move through the education system there are lots of
very specialised bits of software,  chemistry, physics, biology
especially (I would put astronomy under physics too).   so these are
usually aimed at either degree or at the lab end of things by which
time you will be using Linux anyway I guess.

I am making progress here, the school I work at has  win 7 netbooks
running very slowly,  I am trying to find a way to arrange a meeting
to suggest we use Linux, find out what we need and seriously look in
to a workable solution.


Paul




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