[kde-edu]: plasma edu

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> hi everyone :)
>
> at Akademy we had a very good meeting of people involved with various school
> deployments of the KDE Desktop v3 and/or KDE Plasma Desktop. we decided to try
> and do two things:
>
> a) bring some of the unique efforts that are currently going on downstream in
> these projects upstream, allowing them to use the KDE community's resources as
> a point of collaboration for them. this will hopefully allow our large (and
> small!) edu deployments to share their efforts as well as get their work into
> more downstream-agnostic forms (allowing them to more easily shift OS if
> needed)
>
> b) provide a unique Plasma Workspace offering that educational deployments may
> choose to take advantage of. this means upstream work on the Plasma Desktop
> that has a specific aim for the educational desktop needs, bringing us closer
> to our downstreams and giving our downstreams new tools they can't get
> elsewhere.
>
> at the meeting we decided on a few things:
>
> * the best place to run this project is from the KDE Edu community.
>
> this is why i am sending this email to kde-edu@ and not plasma-devel at . it's
> more relevant for educational deployments (plasma-devel is fairly high
> traffic, techical and not overly useful for edu focused work :), and hopefully
> will bring all of our edu resources closer together. we hope that by providing
> a good edu experience on top of Plasma Desktop and Plasma Netbook, we can also
> find new opportunities for KDE Edu software (and vice versa)
>
>
> * we need to write documentation of what we want to achieve and where we are
> right now, this will go here for now:
>
>         http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Classroom
>
> we did this with netbook (http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasma-
> Netbook) and it was a very successful approach, even as our initial design
> evolved over time.
>
>
> * we want to keep our sources together, but not bound to the KDE SC release
> cycle for now. therefore, we are proposing to put our code into
> trunk/extragear/edu/. no such directory currently exists. we will make it.
>
>
> * in addition to gather work down for existing edu deployments, we intend to
> deliver a set of components (plasmoids, containments, javascript layout
> templates) that will run inside a standard Plasma Desktop shell. we want to
> have a first release around the same time as SC 4.6. the central idea is to
> have a set of simplified, lockable panel layouts paired with a desktop widget
> layout that can be customized by the teacher that leverages the Activities as
> debuting in Plasma Desktop 4.5. each class session will get an Actvity, which
> the classroom lead (e.g. teacher) can populate with applications, files, etc.
> when a student logs in, it will fetch the Activities for the class sessions
> they are in.
>
>
> * we require input from teachers using KDE software to provide feedback and
> consultation on the above idea and as it progresses as a software product
>
>
> current action items:
>
> * get the Plasmoid from the Portugal deployment in svn

I'm doing that as soon as possible ( probably in a couple of hours. ) =)

>
> * get the javascript layout that mimics the java bar used in Brazil in svn
>
> * flesh out the design document so we can begin getting teacher feedback and
> start working on it
>
>
> ok, that's probably enough for one email. :)
>
> i hope that the KDE Edu team is ok with us joining/invading your space to run
> this project. your input is not only welcome, it is desired. i'd say it's even
> critical to this becoming a success. open the floodgates! :)
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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