From kde-promo Wed Jun 13 18:58:33 2001 From: Andreas Pour Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:58:33 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Speaking of the KDE league... X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=99245883326717 Eva Brucherseifer wrote: > > > > > > > And where would one find a list of such software? > > > > I am not sure, if your comment was ment seriously, since you probably know > that there is a good collection at apps.kde.com ;-) (BTW - apps.kde.com is > great. Congrats!) Thanks! But looking at the education category (http://apps.kde.com/uk/0/browse/Educational) I don't find too much. There are some vocabulary trainers and some typing tutors, a Euklidean geometry app, a program to display National Geographic CDs, and a testing program. In addition there is a school "administration" program (kmuser at http://apps.kde.com/uk/0/info/id/368). Then of course there are the "generic" programs like Konqueror, KOffice (not quite there yet) and KMail (maybe Aethera/Infusion/Magellan -- would be nice if they could be used for students to organize class schedules and so). What applications are really missing? I mean if you asked a school administrator "What programs do you need before you can switch to using KDE", what would be the answer? If someone could get in touch with real school principals/IT managers, then we could maybe come up with a useful list. (Plus I agree 100% that having KDE in schools would be huge, b/c people mostly continue to use what they have learned in school). > There is linuxforkids.org with a lot of software, but I recently heard, that > some of the listed apps don't work, which is acceptable to developers, but > not to schools. annma tested some of them, you can read the reports at > http://women.kde.org/projects/reviews/edutainment.html > > > In toys shops, supermarkets, warehouses (this is more education software). > > You'll find this education software just everywhere (I don't know where to > > find specific software for schools, as my kids are not that old yet. > > However, at www.lwn.net a eduction report (KC) is reported everyweek). > > this weeks report: > http://www.seul.org/edu/report46.html > > On a linux congress I recently met 2 people involved in school projects. One > was a professor from France: Bernard Lang (European Union Initiatives for > Evolution and Consolidation of the Use of Free Software) and the other one > was José Neif (Pepe) from the mexican school project. > Bernard told me, that they have big problems with linux in France, because > the companies making the school software refuse to make versions for linux > too. So if we can provide apropiate kde apps, that would probably help a lot. > If it is needed, I can establish a contact to these people. That would be great. They would likely be able to answer the questions I raised above quite well, as they probably have spent time investigating exactly that question! Could you maybe contact them and try to find out what is missing, perhaps in some order of priority? I think contacting educational professionals will be more useful in answering these questions than a dot poll -- the people you need to convince is the school administrators, not dot readers ;-). [ ... ] Ciao, Dre _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.