Edubuntu Artwork

Jill's Edubuntu Artwork

I was notified last Saturday that one of my designs will likely be used as the default desktop for the next release of Edubuntu. IF that design is approved for the final CD package, it will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide when they install the Edubuntu software.

What a nice project to be part of! Even though I only participated in a very small way, it was a lovely experience and I thank the Edubuntu Team for making this newbie feel so welcomed. I hope to be able to help even more in the future. I also hope others will find ways to support this wonderful project...maybe pass the links below along to any teachers or school administrators that you may know.

The Edubuntu team of developers are amazingly dedicated people with strong ideals. Because they always strive for excellence I consider it an honor to have my design chosen.

The next official release is due in October of 2007.

What is Edubuntu? Here are a few excerpts from their website, with more links at the bottom:

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"Edubuntu is a Linux distribution for education, designed for a teacher or network administrator to setup a classroom quickly and easily. It is a complete operating system built on Ubuntu and includes educational applications bundled in addition to the office suite, web browser, communication and productivity tools.

"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment. The current version of Edubuntu is aimed at classroom use, and future versions of Edubuntu will expand to other educational usage, such as university use.

The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit."

The Edubuntu Manifesto:

The team behind Edubuntu makes the following public commitment to its users:

• Edubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.
  

• Edubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Edubuntu usable by as many people as possible.
  

• Edubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported with security updates for at least 18 months.
  

• Edubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free and open source software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
  

Here are links to learn more:
Edubuntu Home Page
Edubuntu Community
Ubuntu
Ubuntu on Dell
Here Be Dragons (Bio and blog of Mark Shuttleworth - Founder of Ubuntu )


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