Summary of AbulEdu

[tom poe]

Hi:  And thank you for the update.
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/


On Sunday 28 April 2002 11:16, Dirk Schouten wrote:
> Hi Tom and others,
> Translating a French site is too much work for me and my F. is :(.
> Here is a more than short summary:
>
> ABULEDU= Association Bordelaise (a region in France, D.) of  Free Software
> Users.
>
> Why: Free software is free. Many Parents cannot effort  software. In this
> way school software can also be used at home. They connect  their
> philosophy to the French Revolution exclamation: Freedom, Equality,
> Brotherhood.
>
> They work for primary education. The distro is used in 20 locations in
> Aquitaine ( a region). The distro is Mandrake 7.2 with: - Web interface in
> PHP with which a teacher without computer knowledge can maintain users and
> groups. -  French school software
> - Samba
> -  A virtualcd rom player for images of 10 cd's
> - Proxy & firewall
> - Neomail Webmail
> - Remote administration
> - pedagogic recycling of old computers by way of LTSP
> - a toolbox to make your own apps, in AbusEdu
> - a hardware tool (a button?)  to switch off  the server.??
> - software for chipcard authorisation
> - an extensive howto
> - and a lot more ...
>
> How does a school get the software:
> - The school should pass a test phase
> - You need a rather powerful server with 256 Mb Ram.
> - Networked computers, old 486 with 512 kb video.
> - An Internett connection would be fine but is not necessary.
>
> Do not blame the translator for bias or misinterpretations.
> There is a famous French proverb:
> "Traduir c'est mentir un peu".
>
> Dirk
> (thank you Bruno for this wonderful site)
>
>
>
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