[dot] Hai Ti Comic Teaches KDE

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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix at iway.na>
Dept: kde-super-heros
Date: Tuesday 26/Apr/2005, @13:51

Hai Ti Comic Teaches KDE
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   Today's copy of Namibian newspaper The Namibian
[http://www.namibian.com.na] comes with a computer education comic
featuring KDE.  Named Hai Ti ("Listen up!" in the Oshiwambo language),
the comic [http://www.schoolnet.na/haiti] features the super-hero like
SchoolNet project [http://www.schoolnet.na] showing student and teachers
their KDE desktop [http://www.schoolnet.na/haiti/page17.html].

     SchoolNet is a Namibian organisation who's aim is to bring
computers and the Internet to all schools in the country. So far it has
installed computer labs, consisting of 5 to 10 KDE based workstations,
in some 340 schools, mostly in remote areas. It uses refurbished
computers as thin clients powered by the South African Linux
distribution OpenLab [http://www.direq.org] which focuses on education
and defaults to KDE as the desktop. Snapshots of Project Gutenberg
[http://www.gutenberg.org] and Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org] as
well as other educational content are accessible locally at the schools.

     The Hai Ti comic features the daily life and struggle of young
technicians at SchoolNet Namibia as well as teachers and students at the
schools they serve. While the story of their lives develops it explains
how to launch an application, use a spreadsheet, search the Internet and
use the locally available KDE educational software.