Introducing new members on community - 12 Oct 15

Hello Alessandro and thanks for the warm welcome.
It is a pleasure for me to be able to speak with such an active and supportive community.

My name is Emiliano Vavassori, I’m adviser at Bergamo Linux User Group (BgLUG). Bergamo is a small but nice city in the north of Italy, come visit it :smile:

With BgLUG we activated a new project, trying to bring Linux and FOSS in schools (mainly, primary and secondary): “Linux va a scuola” (which translated is Linux goes to school) and NethServer Community edition is involved being our main infrastructure server :wink:

Our projects is based on a technical part, which I try to explain in few words, plus big training sessions provided to all the teachers:

  • A base system training, provided by us;
  • A technical training for non-professional ITs, aiming to making the school autonomous for the support of the labs, also provided by us;
  • A office automation suite training, provided by with the help of LibreItalia (LibreOffice Italian community);
  • Additional specific software courses, based on the needs of the teachers (read: Geogebra, Stellarium, Epoptes).

At the moment, NethServer is a primary domain controller, providing to its Edubuntu clients:

  • Centralized authentication (winbind);
  • Roaming profiles (based on SMB shares);
  • Centralized installation of packages via custom NethGui interface (see nethserver-networkpackagemanager and doraemon);
  • Configuration management of clients via git and ansible-pull;
  • Transparent proxying with SSL.

Also, we configured onboard an Ubuntu repository with apt-mirror, to be able to provide via unattended-upgrades all the security patches Canonical will put out for its LTS distributions.

We unfortunately don’t have a page for the project, yet. You may check out our GitHub repositories, in which you may find:

I am here for any other questions you may have about the project :slight_smile:

Let’s meet at Fosdem 2016, by the way :wink:

Thanks

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