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

[Marc Eberhard]

Hi,

can I throw today's Raspberry PI launch in the UK into the discussion?

  http://www.raspberrypi.org/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

It's certainly been the story of the day over here:

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9113679/What-is-Raspberry-Pi.html
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918
  
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/973cbff4-6304-11e1-b837-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1no1EdZmY
  http://gizmodo.com/5889245/five-things-you-can-do-with-the-new-raspberry-pi
  
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/22-raspberry-pi-miniature-pc-is-a-sell-out-1067355
  
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2108045/Raspberry-Pi--Could-tiny-PC-help-Britain-Mark-Zuckerberg.html
  
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/29/raspberry-pi-computer-sale-british?newsfeed=true

All the best,
Marc

On 29 February 2012 20:34, Aleix Pol <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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"
>>
>>
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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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