<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi there, Dan. </div><div><br></div><div>As a fellow citizen of the Pacific Northwest down here in Portland, I'm glad to hear that your school district is considering Krita as a teaching tool!</div><div><br></div><div>To add to Halla's answer, Krita's base software is completely unrelated to GitHub,<i> and does not require a network connection at all</i>.</div><div>You may find Krita's <i>source code</i> on GitHub as the project is completely <i>open source</i> and widely available on the internet, but that's probably not relevant to your use case.</div><div><br></div><div>In other words, Krita should have no problem installing or functioning behind even the most strict network firewall rules.</div><div><br></div><div>There are many ways to get Krita, but we typically recommend downloading an installer through our project's official website, <a href="https://krita.org/en/download/">https://krita.org/en/download/</a>.</div><div>On that page you will find various <i>stable installers</i> for Windows, MacOS and Linux operating systems, which can easily be downloaded and installed on each computer in your lab.</div><div>Furthermore, since your network firewall is strict, you could easily download the installer on an out-of-network system and send it to each computer on your network (over the network, or using physical media like a flash drive or SD card) and then install it that way.<br></div><div>Updating the software would work in very much the same way, at whatever cadence is convenient for your staff.</div><div><br></div><div>When it comes to <i>plugins</i> specifically, they are entirely optional, though Krita comes bundled with some official ones (which can also be disabled or removed, and none of which require an internet connection).</div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to let us know if you have any other questions.<br></div><div>Emmet<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM Halla Rempt <<a href="mailto:halla@valdyas.org">halla@valdyas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On woensdag 22 januari 2025 18:18:46 Midden-Europese standaardtijd Hansen, Dan L. wrote:<br>
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> I'm an instructional technology director in a public K-12 school district in Washington state, USA. We have art teachers seeking software for use in digital drawing and painting courses, and they're interested in Krita. In the past, our team hesitated to approve Krita for use in our district/schools because of the reliance upon GitHub for plugins. Our network team has reservations about allowing GitHub in any capacity on our network.<br>
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> Can the base software still be accessed/downloaded/installed/etc. if no GitHub URLs are allowed on our network?<br>
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Of course. Krita is not being developed on github and doesn't try to access github.<br>
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