From kde-promo Mon Mar 05 17:18:43 2012 From: Daniel Rohde-Kage Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:18:43 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Spark and KDE and Tablet-Projects for Schools in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony/Germany Message-Id: <4F54F573.7010806 () tu-dortmund ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=133096799700630 Moinmoin, good feeling that things moving a bit. > My guess is that in this specific context of an educational device the question > is whether it will be sufficient to recharge the device at home or whether > schools will need to provide infrastructure to allow recharging of devices > during the school day. Yes, that is supposed to be one of the questions, which schools will ask for. Thanks Kevin! I 'booked the adventure' to help at the KDE booth on Wednesday and it would be great to meet you there, guys :-)! Pretty noone of my workmates knows, why terms of conditions for the tablet-project in Niedersachsen haven't been published yet. (It is just a vague and mad supposition to think, Apple need some more time to gain the strongest position in field...) But these are some conditions: * Schools have to have a wireless network in the whole building (so: either we look for the rare already equipped schools - in Niedersachsen mainly the notebook-project-schools supported by www.n-21.de/a cooperation between IT-professionals and administration - or someone could install/provide both: WLAN and tablets) * every pupil has to have a tablet ('one-to-one-environment'), while this is a strong pro for a cheaper KDE-tablet. My English is pretty poor and writing this is like running uphill all the time. But my suggestion is to do a professional brainstorming about such a project - the pros and cons, the chances and the areas, where an open tablet cannot cope with the mainstream-tablets. I see clear advantages, and these are far away from just establishing 'the more moral tablet' (openness for the sake of openness) but a 'better tablet', because it fulfills the needs of schools much more. About data-security of a KDE-tablet in school I'm talking in my blog: http://oss-schulblog.org/2012/03/02/tablet-pcs-im-unterricht-das-betriebssystem-und-die-datensicherheit/ A strong pro for an open tablet! And neither Android nor Apple has a concept for that aspect. CU Daniel _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.