<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annemarie.mahfouf@free.fr">annemarie.mahfouf@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
We have a new program ready for KDE 4.4 in playground/edu, Rocs, a Graph<br>
Theory program.<br>
<br>
Considering it is more specialized than other Edu applications, I asked the<br>
release-team about the opportunity of creating a new module: kdescience<br>
with Rocs and Cantor (and maybe Kyle). This is accepted as a possibility but<br>
there are other options.<br>
However soft feature freeze is tomorrow which implies that the decision should<br>
be taken today in order to be added to the feature plan.<br>
<br>
An option would be for KDE-Edu to be in the near future a project like KOffice,<br>
slightly detached from KDE main but we could still release at the same dates.<br>
This would make us stronger as a branding identity provided we have the<br>
resources to make it happen: logo, better website, ... At the moment I am too<br>
busy with personal life to take care of it (I am frequently away to see my<br>
parents, without internet and without time for KDE, I am sorry I cannot be<br>
more present to organize a meeting and boost us). However other people can<br>
step in to coordinate this (noneed tobe a developer!)<br>
<br>
So basically for the 4.4 release, we have several options:<br>
- include Rocs in kdeedu module and wait for 4.5 to make changes<br>
- create a kdescience module with Rocs and Cantor for 4.4 and see what we want<br>
to do for 4.5<br>
- make KDE-Edu a specific project which would need some special promotion and<br>
teamwork.<br>
<br>
What do you think?<br>
<br>
Anne-Marie<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Well, I've been thinking about that again, I'm saying quite a bit the same but I'll try to develop a little bit more so that I can give you some idea (maybe xD).<br><br>For now Rocs can stay inside KDE-Edu like all other application,
but the concern is still applicable, I think and it's something that we
have to solve in the (near) future.<br><br>If it's not possible to have a
presencial kdeedu meeting (like we had in paris) it would be good to
have some in IRC at least. We should clarify KDE-Edu's vision at this
point, making presentations about KDE Edu is not as easy as it should
be, we need some straightforward way to tell schools/teachers that with
KDE they can find everything they need and how are things intended.<br>Some help from kde-prom would be useful here I guess, since they have the experience. Also we should get in contact with some major user of KDE-Edu, that I suppose that somebody knows about one, but I don't, to know how do they use it and why. There's no competitor to KDE-Edu as a package AFAIK, so we can't just copy them :P.<br>
<br>
About making KDE-Edu some module separated from KDE like KOffice is,
I'm not sure about that. In KDE-Edu we don't need different schedules I
think, as for KAlgebra I'm perfectly fine with KDE's and not having to
think when I'm going to release is something I like (I don't like thinking a lot as you see :). We still can have our own identity by being a KDE module and I think that being able to say we're part of KDE and we ship with KDE is fundamental.<br>
<br>That's all, I hope I haven't been too boring ^^.<br><br>Aleix<br>