jonathan carter

The Ubuntu Education Summit has been quite good so far. Today people from various projects and distributions were giving presentations and talks, and tomorrow we’re going to have a workshop discussing the problems that were presented and discuss possible solutions. I talked about tuXlabs and about some of the lessons we learned in South Africa.

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Warning: This post ended up longer than planned, if you are bored easily, only read the first two paragraphs
I’m a bit surprised that there haven’t been noise about this on the planets, but it’s probably due to the long weekend and people generally spending less time with their computers.
Via Slashdot, the OLPC XO […]

Tomorrow is the last day of 2006. Wow, it’s been a wild ride, and the beginning of the year feels like a lifetime ago. It started out well, the project that I’m most involved with, tuXlab, reached a big milestone with the installation of the 200th lab. Since then, many replications has happened in South […]

Wow, we did it. Today is the official release date of the tuXlab GNU/Linux distribution. It’s probably the first distribution that can be considered an Edubuntu derivative. It also benefits from other Ubuntu derivatives, Kubuntu and Xubuntu.
So why a tuXlab distribution? Well, as part of the tuXlab project we have always maintained a set of […]

3 Days after the fact, but when you have lots of work you constantly have to re-prioritise
The past weekend we celebrated Software Freedom Day in Cape Town. It took place at Khayelitsha, which is one of the poorest areas in the city. It happened at a community center there called “the lookout point”. […]

Tectonic is running a story on tuXlabs and its evolution to Inkululeko.
All the bits and pieces are coming together quite nicely, we still have a way to go, but I think we’ve had a real good start. July was especially difficult, since I had quite a bunch of tasks to do in the new […]

Yesterday I attented the launch of the first tuXlab installed in a prison. This tuXlab has been installed in the womens section at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. The second prison tuXlab is due for installation shortly in Malmesbury Prison, which is a medium security prison. The problem with many criminals are that they are […]

Volunteerism has been a hot topic the last few years, especially if you work for a non-profit company as I do. I’ve always believed in the concept of volunteerism, and the past few years of working in the tuXlabs project have re-affirmed what a change volunteerism can make. I’ve seen change in […]

So, it’s 2006, yippee! End of 2005 was a bit hectic, things happening all over the place, the last thing on my mind was blogging, so I’ll use this post as a bit of a catch-up, instead of posting lots of little posts.
Let’s jump in with the tuXlab project. In 2005, the tuXlab project has […]

On 13 August 2005, organisations such as the the Shuttleworth Foundation, Ubuntu Education Fund (completely unrelated to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and PE-LUG came together and installed 12 tuXlabs. I went there on the Wednesday (10′th), to start preparing servers and joining Schalk Engelbrecht (TSF) to assist where I can with preperations.
On Thursday, we went to a […]

This weekend I flew up to London, UK, to attend the first SkoleLinux developers, Guadalinux (spanish distro), and other great people like Mark Shuttleworth, Matt Zimmerman, Henrik Omma and Paul Flint (Paul isn’t just great, he’s larger than life!). The delegates seemed to really like the Skubuntu setup that we’re currently installing in the Shuttleworth […]

Today (June 16), we (Shuttleworth Foundation and SLUG (Schools Linux Users’ Group) installed 10 tuXlabs in one day! This is a repeat of the Freedom day / Operation Freetux / U-Day (and other names that the project had) from last year. These ten schools will be running Ubuntu GNU/Linux with the Linux Terminal Server […]