Strategy
Introduction
Edubuntu is an Ubuntu-based project and product that provides schools, students, parents, and teachers an education-focused operating system. This document outlines Edubuntu's goals and strategies as well as community structure and development policies.
Mission Statement
Edubuntu will provide students, teachers, and administrators with the best educational tools the open-source world has to offer. It will do so with a focus on usability and simplicity. Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu and so brings with it Ubuntu's philosophies and commitments.
Objectives
Objective 1: Education
The first objective Edubuntu has is, unsurprisingly, to deliver an education-focused operating system. This means packaging and maintaining learning, teaching, and administration tools and shipping the best the free/open-source software world has to offer. Edubuntu will strive to ship software that applies to all ages, all subjects, all languages, and all ability levels. Edubuntu recognizes that education is not just tools, but also content. It also sees the need to not only enable learning, but also to enable quality teaching.
Objective 2: Integration
The second objective of Edubuntu is the integration of the various educational applications and tools with both each other and the rest of the Ubuntu desktop. Integration is a key element of an effective and useful computing experience. It means that the educational applications should "fit" in with the rest of the desktop and should work together without user intervention where possible. Complicated installation tasks should be abstracted or eliminated. Programs from outside desktop environments (KDE Edu for example) should be tested to ensure that they are integrated as much as possible.
Objective 3: Usability
Edubuntu's third objective is to provide a highly usable interface for both students and teachers. It is important to note that usability for adults may be very different than usability for children and so special considerations need to be made.
Areas of Focus
Focus 1: Learning & Teaching
Focus 2: LTSP & Administration
Focus 3: Sugar
Focus 4: Community
Edubuntu Community