[edu-eu] Open tablet? - Re: Edu-EU Digest, Vol 45, Issue 5

[Daniel Rohde-Kage]

Hello to all of you,

I think the FSFE should notice that!
The following mail I have posted in the [KDE-Promo] mailing list. It could be a chance to bundling forces (KDE-developer and FSFE and ...?) to establish an open tablet within the project of Niedersachsen. The official terms of contract (Ausschreibung) will be published tomorrow on March, 1st.

Daniel

"...the federal state of Niedersachsen/Germany has started a tablet project in and for schools.
Soon there will be an official invitation(German: Ausschreibung), where tablet-providers, the administration and schools come together and enter into contracts. The discussion about interactive elearning-media and schoolbooks is focussed very much on Apple with the Ipad. In this mailing list I heard the first time of the 'Spark-tablet'. I haven't found out whether this is - beside the software development of Plasma Active - a community or a commercial project.
I think it could be a real chance for the Spark-tablet and KDE Plasma-Active - depending on the developmental stage. I tried to present the Wetab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeTab) with KDE PA2 in our media-consultant-community, but this hardware is pretty weak and PA2 didn't have a working office-suite.
From what I understand, the Spark Tablet is presented at Cebit 2012.
Perhaps KDE e.V. or someone else could try to join the negotiations (German: Ausschreibungsverfahren) or at least present this machine to offer an alternative to Apple, M$ and Android-tablets.
What do you think?

Daniel

Daniel Rohde-Kage
Official, non-commercial media-consultant for schools in Niedersachsen"


Am 28.02.2012 18:00, schrieb address@hidden:

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:17:34 +0000
From: Sam Tuke <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [edu-eu] Article on Apple ebooks and UK schools
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On Monday 27 February 2012 12:42:48 Guido Arnold wrote:

I don't know if I understand the question. Do you mean something like
the tablet with KDE?

I'm not quite sure about "education hardware" either. There is the OLPC 
project (http://one.laptop.org/about/mission) and wikireader 
(http://www.thewikireader.com/)...

Thanks,

Sam.

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