crazyhorse

@Scouters: yes, for sure there are a lot of differences in Scouting between different countries, as example I can tell you that only in Italy there are a lot of differences between different associations and we are in the same country...but this is why we are trying to find cooperation in different countries: maybe it could be possible to have a "core" software we can expand with some plugins. As we wrote in our wiki, there are a lot of standard funtions that we think are common in scouting (scouting life managing, for example...) I've already found Troopmaster, it looks like the italian software used in AGESCI (called Isola). Unfortunately we tried to keep in contact with AGESCI responsible, but nobody replied us...now I'll take a look also in ScoutTrax, we need to know scout leader's needs. About Linux distro uselessness: maybe there isn't a demand for such a thing, but this isn't our mission (to respond a market demand). We want to spread the free software culture in Scouting, and sincerely I don't know a better tool than a distro customized for scouting needs :-)

Hi all, hope my first post here could be interesting :-) First of all, sorry for my english: I'm italian, and I know that my english is not so good. I'm the project leader of OpenScout http://www.openscout.org , a global project started four years ago in Italy in the official AGESCI forum (AGESCI is the first italian and catholic scout association). As you can read in our website, our goal is to "Spread the free software culture in Scouting". In other words, we are a nonprofit community of Scouts and/or ex Scouts having in common the interest for the operating system GNU/Linux and for free software in general. It is an independent community, without economic, political, commercial and above all associative links (more info are in our manifesto: http://www.openscout.org/info/). As you can read in our official wiki http://www.openscout.org/wiki/ , we are currently working in some different projects, like as: * WinScout - A managerial software for Scout troops * Jambian - A GNU/Linux distribution (live and installable) customized for Scouts. * The OpenScout CD - A customized version of the TheOpenCD * ScoutLink Coders - A Project dedicated to develop the Ircd and Services daemon for the Scoutlink Network. * FreeSoftware - A project dedicated to our free Scout software and utilities made by our developers. * Biblioteca (Library) - A little collection of documents, articles and other things related to the Free Software and to Scouting * Grafichiamo ( - A project dedicated to graphic customization * WebChat - A Project dedicated to WebChat and Services daemon for the Scoutlink Network. * Progetti Esterni - Page dedicated to the other projects related to Scouting and Free Software, not included into this wiki, but linked with it. * Jota/Joti - Special external project: Support for Jota/Joti With this post I want to share with you this project, and if possible also to know if somebody want to cooperate with it Hope it can interest all of you Yours in scouting CrazyHorse www.openscout.org