On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote: > Hi, > > I read on a blog that some work started for KEduca-New, is > it in playground yet? Hi, Annma! Not yet. I just arrived in Sao Paulo, after being stranded in Salvador due to the very bad weather (flooding, flights cancelled...) I will blog about it tomorrow in more detail, but here is how it looks so far: I met with a team of 4 people from Syst, a company based in Belo Horizonte that produces educational software and is responsible for the Metasys distro, used in several cities and states in Brazil, including large areas of Minas Gerais. They want to contribute to KDE and the resurrection of KEduca, and approached me soon after I posted about the possible GSoC project. We talked a little bit and I decided to not go for the GSoC project, and instead help them with this effort. Internally, the new KEduca will use a database to store questions and tests. Unlike the previous version, it will be possible to create questions before they are associated with a project, or test, and also reuse them. There is the plan to support KNS3 for upload/download of tests as well. We worked a little bit on prototyping the UI, and I will let Eduardo (the person that will be working on it) post here with more information on it :) The file format for import/export will be compatible with the qti standard. It is interesting to notice that this matches the design decisions made by Matt two years ago, so we are probably on the right track. This makes it possible for example to exchange information with Moodle and other educational software, including vClass, a product from Syst that already exists and runs on Windows and Linux. They will open source the development of the import/export libraries for this, on KDE source tree, under LGPL. The team that will be working on this is: Main contact/maintainer (KEduca work and KDE liaison) Eduardo Samaan qti import/export library developers André Fellipe Cristiano Costa Volunteers that will work on KEduca GUI and coding: Daniel Nascimento - Syst Duda Nogueira - Syst Luiz Tiago - Syst Rodolfo Pereira - DjangoStudio They currently develop some of the code that will be integrated into KDE SVN in Gitorious. If KDE moves to a git installation we could integrate there, otherwise Eduardo will commit to our SVN. It is interesting to notice that they ALREADY have vClass, a product that can be used to build tests and quizzes. . So why help with KEduca? Their intention is to share some of their knowledge and code with KDE, and keep it on our source control system, adhering to our standards. The advantage for them is that all KEduca2 users will be producing content that is automatically compatible with a standard format for tests, and can be exchanged freely with both their product and other solutions as well. So the thousands of teachers that will be using Linux Educacional next year in Brazil will be able to exchange information with other free (and non free) software. I see this as a good experiment for us: they have interest (and paid developers) that will make sure the code keeps working, as this benefits their products as well. It is something we have not had yet in KDE-Edu, let us see how it develops. Regards, Mauricio Piacentini PS: Metasys (the distro) is several years old, and ships with KDE by default (http://www.metasys.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=34&lang=en). So the developers are pretty confortable with Qt and our environment, let us hope this translates into more collaboration with upstream. _______________________________________________ kde-edu mailing list kde-edu@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu