[HLUG] HLUG Open Disc for SFD

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Paul,
 
That just about covers the territory ! Excellent work.
 
The contents of the Open Education Disc are listed at
 
http://www.theopendisc.com/education/

With what looks like more music/ multi-media and science teaching focus in
addition to the usual stuff you have already listed.

Tuxpaint as a possible addition? Also two astronomy apps? - I don't use either,
so I can't say how redundant that is, nor how much space would be made by
dropping one. Your call !

If in doubt throw in some OS fonts ! Jools is nagging me for using proprietory
ones... :-(

Nice one,
Pete 
On 30 August 2010 at 20:12 Paul Stenning <paul at sp-tech.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been sorting through the list we compiled at the last meeting,
> the latest OpenDisc from www.theopendisc.com plus Open Source Windows
> software that I use or am aware of and a bit of Googling to fill a
> couplke of gaps, and so far have the following to include on our CD-ROM:
>
> 7-Zip
> Audacity (plus the LAME MP3 addon)
> Avidemux
> Blender
> Celestia
> Dia
> DVD Flick
> Eraser
> FileZilla
> Firefox
> FreeMind
> Gantt Project
> GIMP (plus help files)
> GnuCash
> Httrack
> InfraRecorder
> Inkscape
> KeePass
> Kompozer
> Notepadd++
> OpenOffice
> PDF Creator
> Pidgin
> Putty
> QCad
> Really Slick Screensavers
> RSS Owl
> Scribus
> SnapBackup
> Songbird
> Stellarium
> SumatraPDF
> Thunderbird (plus Lightning add-on)
> VLC
> WampServer
> WinMerge
>
> Regarding ready-made Apache/PHP/MySQL packages for Windows, at the
> meeting someone suggested XAMPP.  However I had trouble getting this
> working properly a few months ago and found all the XAMPP branding on
> error pages etc annoying.  I use WampServer on my Windows XP PC for all
> my web development work and find it to be reliable and easy to
> configure.  Plus you can add in different versions of PHP, MySQL etc and
> switch between them.  So I intend to include WampServer and not XAMPP on
> the CD-ROM.
>
> Paint.NET, although free for any purpose including commercial, is not
> Open Source and the source code is not available.  See www.getpaint.net
> for details.  For this reason we can't include it on our OpenDisc.  :(
>
> The collection as above is 621MB.  If we estimate 20MB-30MB for the HTML
> front-end with a small screenshot of each program (I'm just going to
> have the index.html page launch in a browser) that still gives us
> 50-60MB free (assuming 700MB CD-ROM).
>
> Maybe we can put some educational programs in that space and not need a
> separate disc for that?  I have no idea what would be good to include or
> how big they are though.
>
> The ones on OpenDisc are CaRMetal (Interactive geometry program), Guido
> van Robot (Introduction to programming for beginners) and Maxima
> (Computer algebra system) all of which sound somewhat obscure to me.
> There is also TuxPaint, TuxMath and TuxType in other sections.
>
> If we need a bit more space we can always get rid of a couple of the
> more obscure programs like FreeMind (8.7MB), WampServer (16MB) and
> Eraser (9MB) or unnecessary bulky stuff like the GIMP help files
> installer (23MB).  Potentially we could have over 110MB free for
> educational programs.
>
> I'd like to include PDF manuals for programs where these are available
> if there's space, but I'm not that bothered if not.  I haven't started
> looking for these yet.It's a deeply considerate thought, but could it be just
> known good hyperlinks to downloads?

>
> Comments and suggestions for programs to include, exclude, change etc
> are welcome.  If we can get the program list finalised this week I can
> then work on the front-end and compiling the whole thing next weekend
> and hopefully have something to show at the meeting on the 8th September.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
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