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- msgid "IT@school"
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- msgid "[[!tag debian blog]]\n"
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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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- msgid "Distribution"
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- "IT@school is a distribution originally based on Debian, later rebased on "
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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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- msgid "Aim is education"
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- "As its name indicates, IT@school is targeted at schools: The system is used "
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- "Together with [KEK][] members Anto and Fayad, Siri and I met with former and "
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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 "
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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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- msgid "School book"
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- "IT@school is accompagnied by a school book written specifically for use of "
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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 "
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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 "
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- msgid "Blend for SBCs"
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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 "
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