| [19:35] <cjdg> hi there, one question, does anyone how can i contact , @eickmeyer? | |
| [19:35] <Eickmeyer> I'm right here. | |
| [19:35] <cjdg> hi man, sorry for bothering you, but i was trying to contact you for some months | |
| [19:36] <Eickmeyer> No worries. Not a bother at all. What's going on? | |
| [19:36] <cjdg> since i saw the news that you wanted to take edubuntu back to life | |
| [19:36] <cjdg> i been a user and promoter from more than a decade using it | |
| [19:36] <Eickmeyer> It's already a full-fledged Ubuntu flavor now. Beta was released yesterday, published news this morning. | |
| [19:37] <cjdg> im already testing it XD | |
| [19:37] <cjdg> but i have some ideas | |
| [19:37] <cjdg> for further taking back to the development | |
| [19:37] <Eickmeyer> Ok, any changes will have to wait until next development cycle, FYI. Feature freeze was a month ago per the Ubuntu Development Cycle. | |
| [19:38] <cjdg> ok | |
| [19:38] <cjdg> how can i join to the development ? | |
| [19:38] <Eickmeyer> Well, you're here, this is where we're going to do development discussions for the time being. | |
| [19:38] <cjdg> you see, im from mexico, and i been promoting open source for education since kindergarten to university | |
| [19:39] <cjdg> and low economic levels | |
| [19:39] <Eickmeyer> Yes, I think I remember getting your email. | |
| [19:39] <cjdg> ohh great!!! | |
| [19:39] <Eickmeyer> As I understand it you have a classroom full of raspberry pi's? | |
| [19:39] <cjdg> not only one | |
| [19:39] <cjdg> right now i been installed almost a 1000s | |
| [19:39] <cjdg> of pis | |
| [19:39] <Eickmeyer> Oh wow. | |
| [19:40] <cjdg> for schools | |
| [19:40] <cjdg> plus maybe more than 3000s edubuntus installed | |
| [19:40] <cjdg> also im a fan of ubuntu studio | |
| [19:40] <Eickmeyer> Well, for Raspberry Pi images, we're at the mercy of the Ubuntu Release Team, but that is definitely a goal since I received your email. | |
| [19:41] <cjdg> count on me for testing | |
| [19:41] <cjdg> i have since the first pi to the latest one | |
| [19:41] <cjdg> plus other SBCs | |
| [19:41] <cjdg> like orange, banana | |
| [19:41] <Eickmeyer> Perfect. What I'd recommend is installing the Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 Beta Raspberry Pi image with the minimal installation option, then installing edubuntu-desktop and letting me know how it goes, because that's basically the same thing. | |
| [19:42] <cjdg> ok | |
| [19:42] <cjdg> will start to work on that | |
| [19:42] <cjdg> by the way | |
| [19:42] <cjdg> on the edubuntu | |
| [19:42] <cjdg> there was some tools | |
| [19:43] <cjdg> like making computers thin clients | |
| [19:43] <cjdg> and remote monitoring | |
| [19:43] <cjdg> right know i forgot the name | |
| [19:44] <cjdg> and i think they are lost | |
| [19:44] <Eickmeyer> Right, that was the LTSP project which was spun-off into its own project. | |
| [19:44] <Eickmeyer> It sounds to me like you didn't read the announcement: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/edubuntu-23-04-beta-released/34861 | |
| [19:44] <cjdg> ohh great thanks | |
| [19:45] <cjdg> yes i didnt saw it | |
| [19:45] <Eickmeyer> It was tweeted out this morning. | |
| [19:45] <Eickmeyer> https://twitter.com/edubuntuproject | |
| [19:45] <Eickmeyer> We don't have our own website yet, we're still working with Canonical on hosting. | |
| [19:46] <Eickmeyer> I need to update the topic in here... | |
| === Eickmeyer changed the topic of #edubuntu to: Edubuntu Development | No supported releases yet | 23.04 beta is out | 23.04 Final due 20 Apr | |
| [19:47] <cjdg> ok ready, im following you now, both my project and myself, havent see the twitter | |
| [19:48] <cjdg> is there a mastodon also? | |
| [19:48] <Eickmeyer> Not yet. Again, still beginning stages. While there used to be an Edubuntu, think of this as a rebirth. | |
| [19:50] <cjdg> ok | |
| [19:50] <Eickmeyer> I'm also working on acquiring the old mailing lists. | |
| [19:50] <Eickmeyer> I also have to get the project leader (my wife) in here. | |
| [19:52] <cjdg> my wife also loved it | |
| [19:52] <Eickmeyer> Excellent. | |
| [19:53] <cjdg> count on us | |
| [19:53] <cjdg> by the way | |
| [19:53] <cjdg> watever you need | |
| [19:53] <cjdg> im biologist and inventor | |
| [19:54] <cjdg> so im quite related to science, arts (mostly technological) and technology | |
| [19:55] <Eickmeyer> Oh, awesome! Well, if you have any suggestions, let us know. Welcome! If you can set-up an IRC bouncer to stay connected, that's probably the best way to keep in touch for now. | |
| [19:56] <cjdg> and also we are both related with social activism, hacktivism, open knowledge | |
| [19:56] <cjdg> sure | |
| [19:56] <cjdg> do you recommend any bouncer? | |
| [20:00] <Eickmeyer> A lot of people recommend ZNC, but if you like Quassel as an IRC client the Quassel client-core setup is pretty easy to use. | |
| [20:01] <Eickmeyer> Either way, you'd have to have access to an always-on server. | |
| [20:03] <Eickmeyer> If you'd like a web-accessible client that's always connected, TheLounge is a good option and there's even a self-hostable snap in the snap store. | |
| [20:04] <cjdg> ok | |
| [20:04] <cjdg> i have some droplets running on digital ocean | |
| [20:10] <Eickmeyer> Oh, perfect! | |
| [20:18] <cjdg> im already installing revolution irc on my mobiles so i can be in touch there | |
| [20:22] <Eickmeyer> Oh, excellent. I try not to pay too much attention when I'm not at my desk because that gets me in trouble. ;) | |
| [20:22] <cjdg> downloading isos and images | |
| [20:22] <cjdg> ok | |
| [20:22] <cjdg> great job, and thanks for bringing it back, you dont imagine how many people helped, and hope to continue | |
| [20:24] <Eickmeyer> Hey, it started when my wife and I went to Prague for Ubuntu Summit and she, an educator herself, was sad to learn of both Edubuntu's existence and demise. So, I looked into what it would take to bring it back and saw that it was possible. With her guidance and my technical know-how, we did it. | |
| [20:58] <cjdg> we were trying for almost 5 years to contact the ubuntu team | |
| [20:58] <cjdg> to see what we could do to bring it back | |
| [20:58] <cjdg> but no response | |
| [20:59] <cjdg> since its beginning i was using edubuntu for rescuing old computers donated to kids in schools | |
| [20:59] <cjdg> plus being honest, i worked for m$, appl3, and g00gl3 and the things i saw there were disturbing | |
| [21:00] <cjdg> plus saw how many countries were coped by the lobbiers | |
| [21:00] <cjdg> so since almost a decade i went full foss | |
| [21:01] <cjdg> from science, to arts I encourage the use of open source | |
| [21:01] <cjdg> so i call myself a "open source yihaddhist" | |
| [21:04] <Eickmeyer> Hehe, I like it. I've been leading Ubuntu Studio for 5 years, and am a MOTU, so it was a matter of getting all of the puzzle pieces in order, knowing where to look and who to contact. My wife works for a non-profit here in the Seattle area that helps refugee children from Somalia. She wants to use this in their classrooms. | |
| [21:07] <cjdg> i know!! you lead to a great distro, i was involved into the apo33 gnu/linux distro, also i was involved into a international festival, called piksel | |
| [21:07] <cjdg> it happens in norway and we made the international tour called transpiksel, is a opensource related arts+science festival | |
| [21:08] <cjdg> plus im also involved with a lot of hacktivists | |
| [21:08] <Eickmeyer> That's great! | |
| [21:09] <cjdg> the only bad thing is that covid shutted down a lot of finances, plus our youngest kid born in the middle of pandemic | |
| [21:09] <cjdg> and because he is disabled, i had to step down from those projects | |
| [21:10] <cjdg> but those related with education | |
| [21:10] <cjdg> im still on them | |
| [21:11] <cjdg> and my wife she is entomologist and botannist, and she makes workshops for women | |
| [21:12] <cjdg> keeping seed banks, and ecology | |
| [21:13] <cjdg> traditional knowledges | |
| [21:13] <cjdg> and self sustaining | |
| [21:53] <cjdg> gonna go prepar food for family guys | |
| [21:53] <cjdg> see you later | |
| [23:53] <cjdg> /away | |