I work for Canonical Ltd. within the scope of Edubuntu operations.

My prime responsibility is towards the NEPAD e-Schools programme where I act as a technical and relationship liaison for the HP led ISPAD consortium. Beyond this my interests lie in African open source developments, specifically around education.

My Edubuntu interests are on

• documentation
• marketing
• advocacy
• real-world data gathering on Edubuntu's use, effectiveness and requirements

I'm currently involved in

• cleaning up the wiki pages
• restoring and maintaining order in the wiki vs webpages
• helping with documentation planning
• getting advocacy and marketing off the ground

Doc Planning Scratch Pad

Current Status - What We Have

Home Page

The main site, http://www.edubuntu.org, has the following structure

• Main Blurb on the home page http://www.edubuntu.org

• Screenshots on http://www.edubuntu.org/Screenshots

• FAQ on http://www.edubuntu.org/FAQ

• Using Edubuntu, more in depth blurb, on http://www.edubuntu.org/UsingEdubuntu

• Glossary of Terms on http://www.edubuntu.org/Glossary

• Where to get help on http://www.edubuntu.org/help

• Info on the community at http://www.edubuntu.org/Community

• Documentation page on http://www.edubuntu.org/Documentation

  • Beginner
    • Using Edubuntu, exact same link as from main page

    • Getting Started guide, basically an install and config guide - http://www.edubuntu.org/GettingStarted

  • Resource

    • LTSP config, short guide for fine tuning thin-clients - http://www.edubuntu.org/ThinClientConfig

    • Glossary of Terms, exact same link as from main page
  • Comprehensive

    • Wiki link to old CookBook - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/HowToCookEdubuntu/Chapters

  • Offsite
    • Learning Electric
    • Ubuntu help links

    • link to the wiki - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/

Ubuntu Help

The Ubuntu Help site, https://help.ubuntu.com/, contains stable releases of docs for

• 6.10
• 6.06
• 5.10

• and a link to the community wiki doclets on https://help.ubuntu.com/community

The site includes:

• Desktop guides for X/K/Ubuntu
• Extracts from official book
• Installation guide
• Server guide
• Packaging guide
• Basic "about" information for K/Ubuntu

Ubuntu Doc

The Ubuntu Doc site, https://doc.ubuntu.com/, contains work-in-progress of docs for

• K/Ubuntu stuff
• Edubuntu
  • Basic "about" info
  • Release notes
  • School Advocacy

They are basically just pulled from the SVN trunk.

Edubuntu Wiki

It is important to note that the wiki.ubuntu.com is the same place as wiki.edubuntu.org

The wiki,https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuWiki , is a bit more complex and has some redundant or outdated information on it.

• Edubuntu Community page - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuCommunity - which contains basic communication info

• Release notes (for 5.10, erk)

• Schools Advocacy - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuSchoolAdvocacy although the new version is on https://doc.ubuntu.com/

• Meetings

  • Agenda - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingAgenda

  • Minutes

    • Newer page - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingRecordsNew

    • Older page - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingRecords

• Doc Page on https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDocumentation shells out links to

  • An old "About" page - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDocumentation/AboutEdubuntu

  • The same release notes as above

  • Quickguide, https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuQuickguide, which was proposed but superceded I guess

  • FAQ which points to the main web site

  • UbuntuLTSP stuff - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/

Documentation Teams

• There is an Edubuntu Documentation team on launchpad (https://launchpad.net/people/edubuntu-doc/) which is a member of:

• The Ubuntu Documentation Project (https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-doc/)

  • which lives on the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam

  • with projects listed on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Projects

  • and a translation project on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Translation

Marketing Teams

What We Need To Do

• Get Edubuntu stuff into Documentation Project
  • get our stuff into SVN
  • track Edubuntu with Documentation Project structures
  • basically integrate Edubuntu Documentation team
  • where does LTSP stuf go?
• Work out how to deal with different versions
  • who works on what version
  • keep interest/contribution in older and LTS versions going
• Clean up wiki
  • Wiki often references outdated docs or duplicated stuff
• Integrate into Marketing Team
  • School Advocacy would become another doc team project
  • but the fliers and posters, etc become marketing materials
• Create tasks for edubuntu doc development
  • Advertise them
  • track them
  • Create roles and profiles
    • Proofers
    • Writers
    • coordinators
    • planners
• Track IRC logs with the rest of the logs and agendas

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