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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Spark and KDE and Tablet-Projects for Schools in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony/Germany
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-03-06 1:39:02
Message-ID: 201203060239.02530.schumacher () kde ! org
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On Monday 05 March 2012 Ulrich Drolshagen wrote:
> 
> I subscribed to the list just to follow this thread. I am interested in
> this topic as I run the IT of the business department of a school for
> vocational education in Niedersachsen. AFAIK I am the only one in this
> realm running all the desktops with Linux/KDE only.

That sounds great :-)

> If you want to have the slightest chance to get even considered for the
> deal, you will have to talk to the schoolbook publishers. The most
> important of them seem to be  Westermann and Bildungsverlag Eins.  If
> you don't get them into your boat forget about the project. If you do,
> you will have a deal.

Where does this strong requirement come from? Is this just the practical need 
to have access to the books you are used to, or is there more behind this?

Do you think there is an opportunity for collaboratively created content in 
this space, something like a Wikipedia for school books?

> The schoolbook publishers are competing with Apple
> in this field and seem to be a little bit late. The schools don't care
> about the technical basis of their devices, they are required to access
> content provided by the publishers through them. If the publishers do
> not support your device, it's not for schools. Don't expect them to be
> especially fond of open source. Your best bet will be an over all open
> platform which provides some hermetically closed cage for their content.

The initiative of the publishers seems to be this: http://digitale-
schulbuecher.de/ Right?

Linux doesn't seem to exist there and it seems to be heavily based on DRM. Not 
the ideal enviroment. But it would need some more details about the technology 
behind it to be able to tell, if it still could fit into an open platform.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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