From kde-edu-devel Fri Apr 16 06:47:07 2010 From: "Anne-Marie Mahfouf" Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:47:07 +0000 To: kde-edu-devel Subject: Re: [kde-edu]: KEduca resurrection (possible GSoC project) Message-Id: <201004160847.08339.annemarie.mahfouf () free ! fr> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-edu-devel&m=127140052131639 Hi Mauricio, This is fabulous news and indeed making it possible to exchange data is the way to go! Thanks a lot for the update, best regards, Anne-Marie On Friday 16 April 2010 06:06:33 Mauricio Piacentini wrote: > 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. > Itemid=37&lang=en>. 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 _______________________________________________ kde-edu mailing list kde-edu@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu