Hi there, I guess this is mostly an interesting message for -devel, but I believe the input of -users is valuable in this case. I'm currently at the Fossdem event and have had the opportunity to talk to both the ubuntu representatives and more importantly the kde people. The kde guys emphasised what was already talked about in the last irc meeting for edubuntu, in that 68 million kids are now using the platform in schools and that their focus is completely education now. I was shown some impressive uses of plasmoids as educational tools. If you have kde, take a look at the parley plasmoid, which churns out a new sentence/word every 10 seconds with the translations to assigned language. The code was literaly less than 10 lines. After talking to them, and them emphasising the amount of kde-edu devs involved who would love to be involved in edubuntu it became quite clear that this should be one of our main objectives. They also mentioned a good point about dependencies which is that we are already pulling in a ton of stuff b involving kde-edu. I was shown a great alternative to celestia/planetarium - kstars... so I dont believe we need to look any further for a astronomy tool. The other thing that was mentioned is that they have a very vested interest in developing or porting existing edu apps to what would be kedubuntu,,,, The other thing that came up, and the main reason I was at fossdem is about Sugar. Right now, there is absolutley no interest in trying to get 0.82 working... we should, those that are interested, focus on Jaunty and the next 0.84 release which will fix all the current problems and finally become an option to install in schools. Anyway... just some things to think about. I have the contact details of the kde people and sugar people so whoever wants to take the reigns on the communication of this, please let me know...
now back to some more conferences.... David (nubae) Van Assche -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
