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"Siri and I are on a journey through India and Nepal, with the aim of "
"learning about needs of Debian derivatives, to improve Debian and encourage "
"closer integration."
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"IT@school is a distribution originally based on Debian, later rebased on "
"Ubuntu."
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"Next release will possibly again be a direct derivative of Debian, or maybe "
"even - time will tell - a [Debian pure blend][blend]."
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"[blend]: <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends#Terminology>\n"
"  \"Debian Pure Blend - subset of Debian configured for a target group\"\n"
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"As its name indicates, IT@school is targeted at schools: The system is used "
"in 8th - 10th grades of most (or all?) public primary schools in Kerala,"
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"Together with [KEK][] members Anto and Fayad, Siri and I met with former and "
"current key participants in the project where we learned about its history "
"and current status, and discussed some differences between Ubuntu and "
"Debian."
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"IT@school has a strong emphasis on the educational aspect, arguably setting "
"it apart from Skolelinux/DebianEdu which emphasizes the technical aspect of "
"relieving teachers from admin tasks.  In the early years of deployment the "
"project faced many hardware issues - e.g. in getting sound cards to work.  "
"This was seen not as problems but as beneficial learning for the teachers "
"facing those issues."
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"Kerala public school system has set the standard for other states in India, "
"but sadly political support within the state has been weak in recent years.  "
"It is hoped that next election - this April - will bring a positive change."
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"[KEK]: <http://kek.org.in/>\n"
"  \"Hackerspace KEK - കോവളം എഴുത്തു കളരി (Kovalam Ezhuthu Kalari)\"\n"
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"IT@school is accompagnied by a school book written specifically for use of "
"the included tools."
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"No explicit license is applied to the book (which means it defaults to "
"classic copyright).  Possibly it will get Creative Commons licensed."
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"If the school book gets a DFSG-free license, several collaboration "
"opportunities emerge:"
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"Currently the book is drafted in LibreOffice but then - due to state "
"procedures - finalized with PageMaker.  Would be interesting to setup an "
"alternate process using only Free tools - either with Scribus or XeLaTeX.  "
"An important detail here is to ensure that the process supports malayalam "
"script."
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"Work is in progress mapping FLOSS tools to the state curriculum.  I "
"recommended to share that work publicly with a Free license, to encourage "
"comparisons across countries, and invite collaboration e.g. with "
"Skolelunux/DebianEdu."
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"Some Kerala higher education schools (sorry, don't remember which)  have "
"bought some thousands of RaspberryPi2.  I suggested to create a Debian Blend "
"for SBCs (Single Board Computers)  - we will see what comes of that idea..."
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"I also suggested to make a Debian blend around IT@school distribution "
"itself, with its strong focus on educational content - i.e. not just as "
"addon to technical tools but the primary purpose pulling in tools as needed."
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