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 and real-world data gathering on Edubuntu's use, effectiveness and requirements.

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The wiki,https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuWiki , is a bit more complex and has some redundant or outdated information on it.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

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