Documentation / Case Studies

• EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook

• EdubuntuInstallNotes : The place to go for Edubuntu installation instructions

• APCSC JavaSetup : Setting up breezy for an AP Computer Science course

• CanDo : Installing the CanDo competency tracking application

• LivecdRecovery : Using the live cd as a recovery disk

• MoodleZope : Setting up a school server to run moodle and zope2.7 on port 80

• LearningZope3 : Creating a simple zope3 application

• EdubuntuHardware : List of machines running Breezy/Edubuntu

• PackageBuilding : Instructions on building .deb packages on Ubuntu

• EdubuntuInstallations : Sites where Edubuntu is up and running

• BelowzeroSpecs : Ubuntu Below Zero conference specs relevant to Edubuntu

• EdubuntuUserStories : A collection of user stories (in the eXtreme Programming sense) for Dapper

• PythonEduLab : A meta package containing everything needed for teaching computer science with Python

• MondoMindi : Setting up mondo / mindi backup on a Breezy box

Links

• #edubuntu irc logs are located here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/

• #schooltool irc logs are located here: http://source.schooltool.org/irclogs/index.html

Cool Stuff

Automatix (Automated GUI installation script) (see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563)

To install on Breezy:

• goto http://beerorkid.com/automatix

• download the latest automatix debian package

• sudo dpkg -i automatix_n.nn_i386.deb

To run:

• Automatix

Firefox Extensions

• http://www.krickelkrackel.de/autohide/ Full screen mode for firefox. Great for S5 slide presentations.

• http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/ Great tools for web developers.

About me

I am a high school computer science teacher in the Washington, DC metro area. I've been a Free Software advocate since 1995, and I've been using Free Software in my classroom enviroment for the past 9 years.

I am a huge fan of the Python progamming language, which I use in my first year CS classes.

My friend PaulFlint introduced me to Ubuntu in December, 2004, when he dressed up as Santa Claus ("Saint Nicholinus", he says) and handed out "Warty" C Ds. "Hoary" got me hooked, and I've been installing Ubuntu everywhere I go.

I attended the UbuntuDownUnder conference with friend and soon to be former student, ColinApplegate, where I worked on the specification for Edubuntu. I hope to be heavily involved in Edubuntu testing, and will be setting up several Edubuntu sites in my community.

I am also actively involved with the SchoolTool project, as project manager for a competency tracking application called CanDo being written by two of my former students which is being built on top of SchoolTool.

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