wtogami ([info]wtogami) wrote,
@ 2007-10-11 23:21:00
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K12LTSP in Portland, Oregon - Day 1
I arrived today in Portland, OR. I met up with Eric Harrison (founder and lead developer of K12LTSP). We have two goals before I leave on Sunday:
  • Show group of visiting <unspecified foreign country /> government education representatives the HUGE success of K12LTSP in the Oregon school system. This group is considering the possibility of deploying K12LTSP in their home country but wanted more information and to see it themselves, in the place where it began.
  • Hack on LTSP 5.0, integrate and package the basics for inclusion into Fedora.  LTSP should be an easily enabled feature on any Fedora server simply by installing packages and running the configuration wizard.  K12LTSP would then be spun directly from Fedora repos, making it a future official Fedora flavor.  We hope to make LTSP server configurable via firstboot module (for K12LTSP install) or system-config-ltsp for post-install configuration.  Anaconda would be used during that config tool to install the chroot to be used by thin clients.
Eric Harrison of K12LTSP
Eric Harrison using Anaconda to Install a Thin Client chroot

Today we planned out tomorrow's tour of the schools and talked a bit about how we will achieve LTSP 5.0 integration into Fedora.  The integration plan is looking to be surprisingly simple in the first phase, which relies upon stock configuration files.  After we have that stuff working in Fedora, we can plan the next phase which is to write management interfaces to allow it to be more flexible and not make assumptions about the user's network.

For now, I am extremely sleep deprived and jet lagged. More tomorrow.

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[info]sankarshan
2007-10-12 04:14 am UTC (link)
Nice. Will look forward to a LTSP spin soon enough and perhaps coupled with a EduFedora we should have a good thing going. There are some current requirements at India where this can be put to good test

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Spin Naming
[info]wtogami
2007-10-12 04:24 am UTC (link)
My gut feeling is that an eventual LTSP Fedora spin should continue to be named K12LTSP instead of Fedora. The reason for this is because of the huge existing international userbase of K12LTSP. The name has value and recognition.

EduFedora sounds kind of funny to me. Too many syllables or something.

In any case, it is a little too early to be talking about the spin name. Actual functionality is more important.

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Re: Spin Naming
[info]wtogami
2007-10-12 04:27 am UTC (link)
... named K12LTSP but with Fedora logos ...

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[info]sudev
2007-10-13 02:45 am UTC (link)
This should be interesting. K12 name is important as it is identified with schools instantly. Waiting for updates.

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[info]tonytraductor
2008-07-25 06:19 pm UTC (link)
Eric rocks.

I used his K12OS for years, being the first gnu/linux flavor that I really dug into, since, at the tmie I was a teacher.
I'm now a translator, and have rolled my own distro for the translation industry.
I really credit Eric, Paul, and others on the K12linux project for helping to get off the ground with linux when I was a completely bumbling newbie.
I should write them and thank them.

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