[kde-edu]: On teachers contributing content Was: KEduca resurrection (possible GSoC project)

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Duda Nogueira <dudanogueira at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> As Mauricio said, we (Syst) have total interest in keeping a close
> contact with KDE and KDE-EDU, helping on improvements not only in
> KEduca app, but the whole Educational stack in open source, whenever
> possible.
>
> It's important to note that our distro is being shipped in thousands
> of Intel Classmates. Here in Brazil we have more then 13.000 already
> delivered, and more 150.000 to go, as the UCA (One Laptop per Child)
> Project from Brazil's government is being launched.
>
> On the desktop side, we have about 4.000 thousand schools here in our
> state, Minas Gerais, with approximately 15 computers each, all of them
> with KDE on in it.
>
> There is also another dekstop project, from the Communication area of
> the government, that plans to deliver 20.000 labs, each one with 15
> computers. From this total, 5.000 was already delivered, and the rest
> will be delivered on the following months.
>
> With KEduca, we want to share/contribute with code, expertise and help
> on stimulating teachers and institutions to develop and share new
> tests/KEduca files.
>
> The Educational Area of our Government has an awesome portal
> (http://portaldoprofessor.mec.gov.br/recursos.html) with tons of
> contents (66G so far), and we think it'll be a good area to share the
> pt-br KEduca tests.
>
> I'll be looking closely for the KEduca-new development, as I truly
> believe this will a win-win situation, and a very interesting project!
>
> Best Regards!
>
> Duda Nogueira
> Gerente de Projetos em Tecnologia
> www.dudanogueira.com.br
>
> Celular: +55 31 9985-1271
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
> <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> > fabulous news and indeed making it possible to exchange data is the
> > way to go!
> > Thanks a
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Hi!!
I'm really happy to read such a mail. I think that such communication
between teachers and developers is definitely the way to go. If you are
interested on working with us, we should create some IRC meeting together
(if it's not possible to meet live) to think of some way we can do that.

For starters, even if the website has an amazing amount of information (I
mean it, there's stuff in catalan, awesome :)) I don't think there's much we
can do with that because data is not formatted in any semantic way but we
should try to get to that. A good start would be to make it possible to
integrate some information into kalzium, they already have wikipedia
information, why not information from "portal do professor"? To do so we
should make it possible to be able to structure the data a little and to
create some RPC interface I guess, do you think that would be possible?

I think it would be great if we could provide kalgebra modules and maybe
cantor sheets for mathematical and science information in general. I think
this would be far better than the current just-html approach. This would
bring up new needs in hosting applications but that's why we are here, isn't
it?

Well, looking forward to hearing from you. And remember that we're here for
good :D

Aleix (KAlgebra maintainer)
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