[Edu-sig] The perfect IT environment in a school

[Blake]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis
<jurgis.pralgauskis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> in such cases http://portableapps.com/ and
> http://www.portablepython.com/ could help
>
> or maybe even some LiveCD/LiveUSB

Have you considered Sugar on a Stick?  The UI is far different from
Windows and might not be appropriate, but it's Linux under the hood
with terminal, Python support, etc.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick

Blake Elias

>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Jan Ulrich Hasecke
> <juhasecke at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since three years I am guiding a Python voluntary workgroup in a school
> > and we are suffering from a badly organized IT environment (a rigidly
> > restricted Windows setting).
> >
> > Most of all we miss a decent VCS as Mercurial or Bazaar. In the official
> > IT classes they never used a VCS so it was never installed.
> >
> > While thinking about this I discovered that some other things are
> > missing. For eg. we cannot install a web framework due to the strange
> > restrictions. They do not have Zotero installed. For students the
> > FF-plugin Zotero would be a great tool to make bibliographies.
> >
> > Does anyone yet compiled a list of things which may not be missing in a
> > perfect IT environment in a school? Perhaps I can lobby some teachers to
> > improve their environment.
> >
> > juh
> >
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