I want to thank everyone who participated in developing gathering for Debian Edu, Skolelinux, LibreOffice, Plasma Active and other free software project for school the last weekend, March 16-18.
http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2012-03-16-18-Oslo It was good attendance and great enthusiasm from both old and new contributors. On Saturday new contributors was introduced to LibreOffice, Skolelinux and the tablet solution Plasma Active. There was so much facts which was presented, so we had to limit the numbers or presentations, postponing two to the next gathering. We also got a walk through on ideas for Debian Edu, Skolelinux, LibreOffice and other free software projects for students going forward. I would particularly like to thank Knut Olav Bøhmer, Olaf Dahlum, Petter Reinholdtsen at the student group working on Plasma Active for their informative and good presentations. Here is a small introduction of the new contributors. Oh, the students will be introduction at a later stage, where they got more to present. Let me concentrate on the three "newbees" first: - Osmo Antero who is originally from Finland will help the students when building the prototypes for improving the Plasma Active User eXperience (UX). He got many years of development experience, being in depth familiar with Debian-based systems and Gtk. He will assist with problem solving, so students and others who need in depth technical answers on questions bringing the development forward. - Kjell Arne Rekaa from Norway will assist in the marketing efforts. Kjell Arne got many years of of development experience, and are now working with IT architecture at Sparebank 1 Bank Group. He helps designing their online bank services for 650,000 customers. - Ingrid Yrvin form Norway has worked for many years at The Norwegian Directorate of Education. In recent years she has been worked as an online journalist and editor for several of their online publications. She is now retired. Ingrid will assist with translation of the Skolelinux project together with here husband when he retires in the fall this year. Finally, I thank the Norwegian free software company FreeCode[1] for borrowing us their offices and meeting rooms for the sprint, including their canteen. It worked great. I should mention that Qt at Nokia is sponsoring Debian Edu sprints going forward. The top management at FreeCode also expressed their mandatory willingness to lend us the facilities at later develop sprints, which now comes in pearls on a row going forward. Stay tuned, you're invited! 1. http://www.freecode.no/ Best regards Knut Yrvin -- President -- Fri programvare i skolen (Free Software In Schools) Please participate in making free software for schools mob: + 47 934 79 561 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4538369.YBtJasfRsr@hjemme-pc
