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

[Aleix Pol]

Hi,
>From KDE Edu we'd be really interested to collaborate and work
together. Personally, I'm interested in knowing what's your interest
regarding the improvement of the free software adoption in education.
I'm sure there's a lot to do and more if we work together, united.

Aleix

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Daniel Rohde-Kage
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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