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Re: [edu-eu] join forces to establish an open tablet for lower saxony


From: Aleix Pol
Subject: Re: [edu-eu] join forces to establish an open tablet for lower saxony
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:03:52 +0100

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Guido Arnold <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2012/3/8 Guido Arnold <address@hidden>:
>>
>> I'll try to roughly summarize them in separate emails. We may or may
>
> Daniel suggested to join forces to establish an open tablet for lower
> saxony (German federal state) and got
> - mental support from Allessandro,
> - Aleix from KDE-edu expressed his willingness to cooperate
> - Michael K. pointed out that the hardware of the Spark might not be
> good enough to promote FS. Aleix in return pointed out that the
> hardware will get better eventually. This doesn't help us now, though.
> - Michael suggested to contact the Plasma Active team
> - Michael referred to the Free your Android campaign
> https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/android
>
> So far the summary.
>
> Daniel,
> I only skimmed through the Schulverwaltungsblatt [1], but I couldn't
> find anything related to tablets. Do you have any further info on
> this?
>
> You wrote on March 1.:
>> This is taking place right now in Germany, and not only me would like
>> to offer schools an alternative to the (wonderful designed, perfect working,
>> good-looking, sensational easy-to-use and horrible closed) Ipad and the
>> well-organized and perfectly managed and horrible closed-minded Apple
>> e-book-campaign.
>
> Whatever we come up with, we will not be able to compete with that in
> the short term. There is the danger that we make Free Software look
> crappy if we try to.
>
>> I need help to do this. There is hardware (maybe 'Spark'), there is an open 
>> OS (for example
>> the great KDE Plasma Active). Now: there is some open software (which one is 
>> usable on
>> tablets?),where is support (for non IT-professional-companies like schools 
>> are), how can we
>> manage marketing?
>
> I also would like to be able to promote a free alternative and am
> willing to help where I can, but I fear that we in the edu-team don't
> have the resources to pursue this as strong as it would be needed. I
> think the only thing we can do is to point out the advantages of Free
> Software again and again and try to find arguments the decision makers
> care about.
>
> The question how we can manage marketing is a good one and worth
> answering even apart from the Apple iBook issue. This question is
> crucial anyway.
>
> Maybe worth to start yet another thread? ;)
>
> Thanks for bringing this up!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Guido
>
> [1] 
> http://www.mk.niedersachsen.de/download/64762/Schulverwaltungsblatt_03_2012_-_Amtlicher_Teil.pdf
> --
> Guido Arnold                       Free Software Foundation Europe
> http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido     []         Edu team & German team
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Just as a note, I am at the Plasma Active sprint right now, maybe it
would be interesting if you can tell me what you're looking for so
that we can discuss it in person.

Aleix



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