[Blends-commit] [SCM] blends-gsoc branch, master, updated. c849f8e7d959557ae414e569c5002174c6efa21d
Emmanouil Kiagias
e.kiagias at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 21:16:40 UTC 2013
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit c849f8e7d959557ae414e569c5002174c6efa21d
Author: Emmanouil Kiagias <e.kiagias at gmail.com>
Date: Thu Sep 19 23:16:28 2013 +0200
doc/en/added 04_existing_blends.xml converted documentation. Remember to commet out xref in lines 625 and 794 once I convert the rest of the documentation
diff --git a/doc/debian-blends.en.xml b/doc/debian-blends.en.xml
index 3bed48b..9be2075 100644
--- a/doc/debian-blends.en.xml
+++ b/doc/debian-blends.en.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<!ENTITY ch-introduction SYSTEM "en/01_introduction.xml">
<!ENTITY ch-about SYSTEM "en/02_about.xml">
<!ENTITY ch-general-ideas SYSTEM "en/03_general_ideas.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch-existing-blends SYSTEM "en/04_existing_blends.xml">
]>
@@ -17,5 +18,6 @@
&ch-introduction;
&ch-about;
&ch-general-ideas;
+ &ch-existing-blends;
</book>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/en/04_existing_blends.xml b/doc/en/04_existing_blends.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b48c67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/en/04_existing_blends.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,808 @@
+<chapter id="existing">
+ <title>Existing Debian Pure Blends</title>
+
+ <sect1 id="debian-jr">
+ <title>Debian Junior: Debian for children from 1 to 99</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>beginning of 2000</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr"></ulink></para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/junior/tasks">Tasks of Debian Jr.</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-jr/"> debian-jr at lists.debian.org</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Ben Armstrong <email>synrg at debian.org</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_jr.png">Activists on Debian Jr. mailing list</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Release</term>
+ <listitem><para>Debian 3.0 (Woody)</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To make Debian an OS that children of all ages will <emphasis>want</emphasis>
+ to use, preferring it over the alternatives.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To care for those applications in Debian suitable for children,
+ and ensure their quality, to the best of our abilities.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To make Debian a playground for children's enjoyment and
+ exploration.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+The main target is young children. By the time children are teenaged, they
+should be comfortable with using Debian without any special modifications.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Debian Jr. was the first Blend. In fact, at the time this project was
+created, the idea behind of Debian Pure Blends was born, although
+then, we used the term "Debian Internal Project". Over time, this
+name was changed to "Custom Debian Distributions" first because it was
+too broad, as it was equally descriptive of a number of quite
+different projects, such as IPv6 and QA. The next change of names
+became necessary when it was realised that the term "Custom Debian
+Distribution" was considered as "something else than Debian" by any
+newcomer. This was so misleading that it effectively blocked a wide
+propagation of the principle.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Debian Jr. not only provides games, but is also concerned about their
+quality from a child's perspective. Thus, games that are regarded as
+not well suited to young children are omitted. Moreover, choices are
+made about which packages are best suited for children to use for
+various other activities and tasks that interest them. This includes,
+for example, simple text processing, web browsing and drawing.
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+ <sect1 id="debian-med">
+ <title>Debian Med: Debian in Health Care</title>
+
+<para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/01/msg01730.html">beginning of 2002</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med">Debian Med</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks">Tasks of Debian Med</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/"> debian-med at lists.debian.org</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Andreas Tille <email>tille at debian.org</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_med.png">Activists on Debian Med mailing list</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-med-packaging.png">Activists on Debian Med developer list</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-med-commit.png">Activists on Debian Med commit list</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Release</term>
+ <listitem><para>Sarge</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To build an integrated software environment for all medical tasks.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To care especially for the quality of program packages in the field of medicine
+ that are already integrated within Debian.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To build and include in Debian packages of medical software that are missing
+ in Debian.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To care for a general infrastructure for medical users.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To make efforts to increase the quality of third party Free Software
+ in the field of medicine.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="debian-edu">
+ <title>Debian Edu: Debian for Education</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>Summer of 2002, since 2003 merged with SkoleLinux, which is now
+ synonymous with Debian Edu</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu">Debian Edu Wiki</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/edu/tasks">Tasks of Debian Edu</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/"> debian-edu at lists.debian.org</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_edu.png">Activists on Debian Edu mailing list</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Responsible</term>
+ <listitem><para>Petter Reinholdtsen <email>pere at hungry.com</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Release</term>
+ <listitem><para>Sarge</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To make Debian the best distribution available for educational
+ use.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Provide a ready to run classroom installation with free
+ educational software. An automatically installed server
+ provides net-boot services for disk-less thin clients and
+ all necessary applications for educational use.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To federate many initiatives around education, which are
+ partly based on forks of Debian.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To continue the internationalisation efforts of SkoleLinux.
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To focus on easy installation in schools.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To cooperate with other education-related projects (like
+ <ulink url="http://schoolforge.net/">Schoolforge</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.ofset.org/">Ofset</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://edu.kde.org/">KdeEdu</ulink>).</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+This project started with the intention to bring back into Debian a fork from
+Debian that was started by some people in France. Because they had some
+time constraints, the people who initially started this effort
+handed over responsibility to the Norwegian <ulink url="http://www.skolelinux.org">Skolelinux</ulink>,
+which is currently more or less identical to Debian Edu.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The Debian Edu project gathered special interest in Spain because
+there are derived Debian distributions from this country that are
+intended to be used in schools. For instance there are:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><ulink url="http://www.linex.org/">LinEX</ulink></term>
+ <listitem><para>A Debian derivative distribution used in all schools in
+ Extremadura.</para>
+ <para>Currently they are joining Debian Edu and by doing so
+ becoming fully integrated into Debian. This is a really
+ important move because it brings a lot of good software and
+ experience back into Debian.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="demudi">
+ <title>Debian Multimedia</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>In 2004 there was and effort by DeMuDi to become a Blend but
+ this effort seems to have stalled. DeMuDi was part of the
+ <ulink url="http://www.agnula.org/">Agnula</ulink> project
+ (founded by European Community) and the work somehow was
+ taken over by the 64 studio project.
+ </para>
+ <para>At DebConf 10 in the
+ <ulink url="http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/670.en.html">Debian Multimdia BOF</ulink>
+ a decision was made to use the Blends stuff for rendering
+ web sentinel pages. It was furtherly mentioned that the
+ people driving DeMuDi joined the Debian Multimedia packaging
+ team so there is now an unique effort to tackle multimedia
+ relevant packages.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia">Debian Multimedia</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks">Tasks of Debian Multimedia</ulink>
+ </para>
+</listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-multimedia-maintainers.png">Activists on Debian Multimedia maintainers mailing list</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-multimedia-commits.png">Activists on Debian Multimedia commits mailing list</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_multimedia.png">Activists on Debian Multimedia user mailing list</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Responsible</term>
+ <listitem><para>Reinhard Tartler<email>siretart at tauware.de</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem><para>Oriented toward audio and video</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To make GNU/Linux a platform of choice for the musician
+ and the multimedia artist.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Join multimedia forces inside Debian</para></listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="debian-gis">
+ <title>Debian GIS: Geographical Information Systems</title>
+
+<para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/10/msg00007.html">October 2004</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis">DebianGIS Wiki</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks">Tasks of Debian GIS</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/MailingLists">user and developer list</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-grass-general.png">Activists on Debian GIS mailing list</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Francesco P. Lovergine <email>frankie at debian.org</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Geographical Information Systems</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</ulink> and GPS devices</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="debichem">
+ <title>DebiChem: Debian for Chemistry</title>
+
+<para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>October 2004</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debichem/">Debichem Alioth page</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/debichem/tasks">Tasks of DebiChem</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <ulink url="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debichem-users">debichem-users at lists.alioth.debian.org</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debichem-devel.png">Activists on DebiChem mailing list</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debichem-commits.png">Activists on DebiChem commits list</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Michael Banck <email>mbanck at debian.org</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Chemical applications in Debian</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="debian-science">
+ <title>Debian Science: Debian for science</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01555.html">July 2005</ulink>
+ </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience">Debian Science Wiki</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks">Tasks of Debian Science</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/">debian-science at lists.debian.org</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_science.png">Activists on Debian Science mailing list</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science-maintainers.png">Activists on Debian Science maintainers list</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science-commits.png">Activists on Debian Science commits list</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Responsible</term>
+ <listitem><para>Sylvestre Ledru <email>sylvestre at debian.org</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ While there are Debian Pure Blends that care for certain sciences
+ (Debian Med deals in a main part with Biology, DebiChem for
+ Chemistry and Debian GIS for geography) not all sciences are covered
+ by a specific Blend. The main reason is that at the moment not
+ enough people support such an effort for every science. The
+ temporary solution was to build a general Debian Science Blend that
+ makes use of the work of other Blends in case it exists.
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="accessibility">
+ <title>Debian Accessibility Project</title>
+
+<para>
+Debian for blind and visually impaired people
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>February 2003</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/">debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/">Debian Accessibility</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/accessibility/tasks">Tasks of Debian Accessibility</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_accessibility.png">Activists on Debian Accessibility mailing list</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Mario Lang <email>mlang at debian.org</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To make Debian accessible to people with disabilities.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>To take special care for: Screen readers; Screen magnification programs;
+ Software speech synthesisers; Speech recognition software; Scanner drivers
+ and OCR software; Specialised software like edbrowse (web-browse in the
+ spirit of line-editors)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To make text-mode interfaces available.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To provide screen reader functionality during installation.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1 id="stalled-blends">
+ <title>Blends that were announced but development is stalled</title>
+
+ <sect2 id="debian-desktop">
+ <title>Debian Desktop: Debian GNU/Linux for everybody</title>
+
+<para>
+Motto: "Software that Just Works".
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>October 2002</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop">Debian Desktop</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/"> debian-desktop at lists.debian.org</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Colin Walters <email>walters at debian.org</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To try to build the best possible operating system for home
+ and corporate workstation use.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To ensure desktops like GNOME and KDE coexist well in Debian and
+ work optimally.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To balance ease of use for beginners with flexibility
+ for experts.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To make the system easy to install and configure (e.g. via
+ hardware-detection).</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+This Blend has many common issues with other Blends. The latest move
+of Debian Desktop was to care about more up to date software that can
+be used as common base for all Debian Pure Blends. The
+common interest is described in detail in <!-- <xref linkend="new_ways_of_distribution"/> -->. Unfortunately since about 2004 the
+project is really silent and it might be considered dead now.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="debian-lex">
+ <title>Debian Lex: Debian GNU/Linux for Lawyers</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>April 2003</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-lex">Debian Lex</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Tasks</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/lex/tasks">Tasks of Debian Lex</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Mailing list</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-lex/"> debian-lex at lists.debian.org</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Activity</term>
+ <listitem><para><ulink url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_lex.png">Activists on Debian Lex mailing list</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Jeremy Malcolm <email>Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To build a complete system for all tasks in legal
+ practice.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To add value by providing customised templates for lawyers to
+ existing packages like OpenOffice.org and SQL-Ledger, and
+ sample database schemas for PostgreSQL.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+The word <emphasis>lex</emphasis> is the Latin word for law.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+ <sect2 id="debian-enterprise">
+ <title>Debian Enterprise</title>
+
+<para>
+Debian GNU/Linux for Enterprise Computing
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Start</term>
+ <listitem><para>End of 2003</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>URL</term>
+ <listitem><para>Debian Enterprise</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Initiator</term>
+ <listitem><para>Zenaan Harkness <email>zen at iptaustralia.net</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+ <term>Goals</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <!-- [BA] The following are stated on the web site as what Debian Enterprise
+ does, and not as goals. But the goals section on the web site is hard
+ to reduce to specific goals point-by-point. I believe this needs fixing,
+ and perhaps could be improved by talking it over with Zenaan. -->
+ <listitem><para>To apply the UserLinux Manifesto.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To establish the benchmark in world class Enterprise
+ operating systems engineered within an industry driven
+ shared-cost development model.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To vigorously defend its distinctive trademarks and
+ branding.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To develop extensive and professional quality
+ documentation.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To provide engineer certification through partner
+ organisations.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To certify the Debian Enterprise GNU/Linux operating system
+ to specific industry standards.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To pre-configure server tasks</para></listitem>
+ <!-- [BA] I don't know what this point means, nor can I find it on the
+ web site, so perhaps it should simply be removed.
+ <listitem>To provide install-time options regarding the intended
+ purpose.</listitem>
+ [AT] Removed by comment
+ The idea behind it was that it might be interesting to
+ provide some configuration options for certain servers
+ which might have connections to others. For instance Zope
+ can be run behind Apache using some rewriting rules but
+ this is poorly documented and a working example or
+ something else could help here. It was discussed via
+ E-Mail that Debian Enterprise could provide such
+ "inter-package-connection" configurations as examples.
+ This was badly worded above and not officially stated at
+ their web site, but should not be lost out of focus and
+ should remain here at least as comment. Perhaps you might
+ find a better wording.
+ -->
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="other">
+ <title>Other possible Debian Pure Blends</title>
+<para>
+ There are fields that could be served nicely by not yet existing
+ Blends:
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Debian eGov</term>
+ <listitem><para>Could address government issues, administration, offices of authorities,
+ accounting.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Office</term>
+ <listitem><para>Could cover all office issues.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Accounting</term>
+ <listitem><para>Could integrate accounting systems into Debian.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Biology</term>
+ <listitem><para>Could perhaps take over some stuff from Debian Med.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Physics</term>
+ <listitem><para>Might look after simulation software.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Mathematics</term>
+ <listitem><para>There is even already a live CD - see Quantian in <!-- <xref linkend="liveCD"/> --> </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>???</term>
+ <listitem><para>There are a lot more potential Blends.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
+</chapter>
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