2 alumnes per ordinador a les aules catalanes

[català, catalan]


Voleu saber com es pot aconseguir tenir 2 alumnes per ordinador en comptes de 6 com tenim ara a les nostres escoles? I tot amb el mateix pressupost en informàtica i respectant el medi ambient! Llegiu l'article publicat al TodoLinux del mes de Març on explico com es pot aconseguir en un període de 4 anys (i tinguent en compte el creixement demogràfic).

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Podeu trobar més informes sobre linkat a la web de lin.cat a la secció d'informes.

Cocktail.lin.cat and LimeJeOS at the Summer Of Code - submit your applications before 31st March!

If you are a student and want to get 4500$ this summer for working on a free software project, submit you application to google before the 31st of March. Moreover, if you would like to get involved in a project for building software appliances and linux distributions, propose a LimeJeOS and cocktail.lin.cat project as openSUSE projects when submitting.

More info at: http://cocktail.lin.cat/summer_of_code_2008.html

cocktail.lin.cat updated with a draft of the design

cocktail.lin.cat has been updated with a sketch of what it would be, a web application for building software applications. You can see the functional design and a first approach of the interface design.

LimeJeOS: The openSUSE based JeOS

A new project called Lime JeOS (LInux Minimal Edition Just enough Operating System) has been created at the openSUSE community.

Lime JeOS is a project meant to be the base for sofware appliances. Similar to Ubuntu JeOS but more powerful as it is build on the openBuildService.

LimeJeOS is part of a very ambitious project: cocktail.lin.cat .

Cocktail.lin.cat is a project for building software appliances on top of openSUSE. It uses LimeJeOS (pronounced like lime juice), Eis (Enterprise Information Software pronounced like Ice) and KIWI (The openSUSE imaging system) for building them.

So LimeJeOS is only the first step to make building software appliances in a very easy and powerful way based on openSUSE. Software appliances will be a must use and must know technology in the near future, as it has many benefits for ISVs and software companies.

linkat install party

(català)



El dissabte dia 12 d'abril de 2008 a les 10 del matí es realitzarà una "Install Party Linkat" al IES Montsià d'Amposta. Es presentarà la nova Linkat 2.0 feta pel departament d'Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Hi haurà la presència de responsables del projecte per introduir-nos en el món de GNU/Linux al món educatiu. La instal·lació es realitzarà a una de les aules de l'IES Montsià, però si vols portar el teu ordinador portatil també t'ajudarem a posar la Linkat.

Horari de l'event:

10:00 - 11:00 Xerrada sobre les novetats de Linkat 2.0
11:00 - 13:30 Install Party
13:30 - 14:00 Pissarra digital, per David Comuñas

Organitzat per Atictes i el departament d'Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

call for participation: VII Free software meeting in Barcelona

As every year since 2002, "La Càtedra de Programari Lliure de la UPC" organizes this event. This year this event is going to be at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and it is going to be focused on multimedia free software applications, as in this University there is a lot of research on this area. CLAM, a free multimedia audio research framework has its main researchers and developers working on that University and will take part on the organization.

This is an annual meeting point for Universities, Researchers, Administration and all the society to share and discuss what is being done in free software in Catalunya.

Last year I was there presenting a paper about instlux. Linkat was also presented there, and a lot of other interesting projects. I hope this year I can present also a very interesting paper. The call for papers is open till the April 28th.

More info at (in catalan):

http://cpl.upc.edu/

no more comkat but openSUSE edu. Long life to openSUSE edu

The project comkat has been moved to openSUSE educational project.

The COMmunity repository for linKAT has been a project for those developers willing to collaborate to linkat, a linux distribution for the catalan schools run by the government. Comkat was run by individuals as volunteers.

When the comkat project started, there was no possibility to have an account for anybody at the open build service . That was one of the main reason to build an own repository where anybody could drop her rpms. Another reason was that it did not exist any specific project for education at openSUSE. Keep in mind that education projects should contain education software and that software should be for all ages.

However, things have changed. Anyone can get an open build service account, and right now there is a project, the openSUSE education project, that did not exist before.

These two points make the comkat project director (me) decided to move to the openSUSE education project (I am already a mantainer of the Education:Desktop and Education:Server subprojects at the BuildService), so we could join efforts and contribute to the openSUSE community.

So, long life to the openSUSE education project!

linkat logo done by Artur Tallada and Marià Cano.

instlux as part of the openSUSE project

instlux became part of the openSUSE project with the 10.3 public release of openSUSE. The instlux project will no longer be mantained at sourceforge, but at the openSUSE community, which is a big community and I am very proud of contributing the project to it.

So, from now on:

homepage: http://en.opensuse.org/Instlux

bug traquer: http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports

support (forums, mailing lists, etc.):
http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate

The only thing that will remain at sourceforge will be code, that is, the svn. However there will be no new releases at sourceforge, as they will be released together with the openSUSE releases.

You can read about instlux at the novell connection magazine:

http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/2007/q4/tech_talk_3.html?sourceid=NCM_q4_07_tt3

Being instlux part of openSUSE is a very good thing for the project, actually I can not think about anything better, as being part of a bigger community gives instlux a better future that does not depend only on me having free time.

The photo has been taken by Zioluc and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license