-Title: Debian Edu/Wheezy - some ideas
+Title: Debian Edu - some ideas for the future versions
Tags: english, debian edu
-Date: 2012-02-23 14:30
+Date: 2012-06-11 14:30
<p>During my work on Debian Edu based on Squeeze, I came across some
issues that should be addressed in the Wheezy release. I finally
<li>CUPS for admins to add/configure printers and users when using
quotas.</li>
-
<li>Nagios for admins checking the system status.</li>
<li>GOsa for admins updating LDAP and users changing their passwords.</li>
<li>LDAP for admins updating LDAP.</li>
<li>Squid for users when exam mode / filtering is active.</li>
<li>ssh for admins and users to save a password prompt.</li>
+
</ul></li>
<li>When we move GOsa to use Kerberos instead of LDAP bind to
packages, and extend the tool to allow it to use packagekit to install
new applications with a simple mouse click.</li>
- - Complete exam mode support by adding Squid filtering
-
- - Provide surf board / touch screen desktop
-
- - add out of the box setup for italc/controlaula/epoptes
+<li>The Squeeze version got half a exam solution already in place,
+with the introduction of iptable based network blocking, but for it to
+be a complete exam solution the Squid proxy need to enable
+filtering/blocking as well when the exam mode is enabled. We should
+implement a way to easily enable this for the schools that want it,
+instead of the "it is documented" method of today.</li>
+
+<li>A feature used in several schools is the ability for a teacher to
+"take over" the desktop of individual or all computers in the room.
+There are at least three implementations, <ahref="">italc</a>,
+<ahref="">controlaula</a> og <ahref="">epoptes</a> and we should pick
+one of them and make it trivial to set it up in a school. The
+challenges is how to distribute crypto keys and how to group computers
+in one room and how to set up which machine/user can control the
+machines in a given room.</li>
+
+<li>Tables and surf boards are getting more and more popular, and we
+should look into providing a good solution for integrating these into
+the Debian Edu network. Not quite sure how. Perhaps we should
+provide a installation profile for them, or add some sync services to
+allow them to exchange configuration and data with the central
+server.</li>
</li>
+
+<p>I guess we will discover more as we continue to work on the Wheezy
+version.</p>