Bjarne Nielsen, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Alf Tonny Bätz and Knut Yrvin had several talks at the one day conference on free software in schools, organized by Narvik municipality, Friday 24 April 2009.
It was more than 20 participants from local schools and neighbouring municipalities. The program was like this: 10:00 Start at The Narvik town hall - with introduction by Viggo Fedreheim. 10:15 The computer staff in Narvik gives and overview of operation 10:45 Skolelinux are arriving Ankenes primary school (they got more than 200 computers and 7 smart boards) 11:00 An presentation of Rosegarden with Alf Tonny Bätz The school served lunch and cakes. They had excellent cakes, which was not an obvious thing they said. But because they had saved lots of money running Skolelinux, they had money left for cakes ;) 12:00 Bjarne Nielsen presents centrally maintained Skolelinux installations both in the city of Oslo and Hurum municipality. 12:30 A walk through at the school, showing pupils in full action using free software to study, doing presentations etc. 13:30 Klaus Ade Johnstad did an impressive presentation with KDE and Ubuntu Remix on Netbooks. 14:15 Knut Yrvin had a tree packed presentation on costs running Skolelinux installations managed centrally, OpenOffice.org with municipality software. His presentation ended with the fun part, presenting how Qt is used, and how Nokia is putting their whole weight behind free software cross platform, cross devices with Qt. Yrvin also showed how Nokia are engaging more with free software communities, e.g the cooperation with KDE using Qt. 16:00 the users conference was finished. We had a nice informal dinner in the evening with the principal at Ankenes primary school. Astrid Sletting was of course there. She is a schools pedagogic advisor for the school when using Internet and software in teaching. The people from the computer staff in Narvik joined. It was a really nice end to the one day conference. The dinner we paid our self. Oh, here is a short summary of the event publish at the school home page, in Norwegian. Nice pictures for those who don't speak Norwegian yet ;) http://www.narvikskolen.no/ankenesb/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=131 Best regards Knut Yrvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
