inclusion of MathematiK into kde-edu

[Alexander Rieder]

On Wednesday 23 September 2009 00:59:10 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On September 22, 2009, Alexander Rieder wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 September 2009 19:11:20 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On September 22, 2009, Alexander Rieder wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 22 September 2009 03:35:04 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > > have you discussed this with the KDE Edu team? they would be the
> > > > > ones with the most relevant feedback for an app headed for the KDE
> > > > > Edu module.
> > > >
> > > > I've done that, and was referred to this list by annma for the
> > > > review. See [1] for the whole discussion.
> > > >
> > > > Alexander
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-edu&m=125081194907862&w=2
> > >
> > > great; i didn't want to wade in before the appropriate module team did.
> > >  glad to see that the discussion has gone well there. it will be great
> > > to see this application shipping soon :)
> > >
> > > that said, where it ends up landing is an interesting question: kdeedu
> > > or extragear/edu? this depends on the audience scope of Cantor (a great
> > > name, imho :) and that of kdeedu itself. if Cantor is not of general
> > > use/interest or fit with the scheme of the current kdeedu (which seems
> > > aimed towards general education and/or a younger audience) then it may
> > > well be better in extragear (as both Kevin Krammer and Hanse Meine have
> > > pointed out as well)
> >
> > Well the naming discussion didn't really and anywhere. There were some
> > problems with Cantor, as it means "singer" in some languages (I'm not
> > sure how much trouble this would cause)
> 
> i don't think it's a problem. it's nearly impossible to find a name that
>  works in every language. sometimes it's hard enough to find a name that
>  isn't a swear word in some language, so be thankful the worst so far is
>  "singer" ;)

Ok, so Cantor it is. I'll do the renaming before going to the appropriate 
module (Or should I do it now?). Thanks for finally ending the naming-odyssey.

Alexander


> 
> > As for the audience, I'm targetting at High-School students and higher.
> >  (The project was created to fullfilll my needs as a student of
> >  "mathematics in science and technology", and will probably grow with my
> >  needs)
> 
> i'll obviously leave it up to the kde-edu people, but it sounds like this
>  fits right in with kalzium et al then.
>