[kde-edu]: aKademy 2007 and Education

[Vladimir]

On Sunday 08 July 2007 12:59:56 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 1. aKademy 2007
>
> aKademy 2007 in Glasgow was full with Education related events.
>
> - Inge Wallin gave a talk about "KDE in Large Installations and Thin Client
> Settings". See the video:
> http://home.kde.org/~akademy07/videos/2-10-KDE_in_Large_Installations_and_T
>hin_Client_Settings.ogg and the page:
> http://akademy2007.kde.org/conference/talks/48.php
>
> - Tuesday 3rd July was the full Edu & School Day
> You can find the schedule and slides here:
> http://akademy2007.kde.org/codingmarathon/schoolday.php
>
> and here is the report:
> http://edu.kde.org/events/akademy2007/EduDayReport.odt
> (the report has to be improved, if you have improvements you can send the
> new report here and someone will commit it as I'll be in holiday for 2
> months)
>
> - Wednesday 4th July we had a BoF about KDE-Edu.
> The reports can be found here:
> PDF: http://edu.kde.org/events/akademy2007/EduBoF.pdf
> ODT: http://edu.kde.org/events/akademy2007/EduBoF.odt
>
> I'd like to warmly thank Wendy van Craen for taking notes during the Edu
> Day and Inge Wallin for preparing this day with me.
> Thanks to all the speakers. The talks were very interesting and hasn't it
> be for the Tutorial Day happening at the same time we would even have had
> more audience.

According to slides and other materials I've read that was a great meeting ! 
Congratulations and thanks for preparing it !

>
> 2. Intel CLASSMATE PC
>
> Intel people could not come and were represented by Mr Helio Chissini de
> Castro but they will send me a Classmate PC so I can test KDE-Edu software
> on it. I'll expect to get it in August when I am back to France and start
> looking at it. We have to follow this closely as it's a real big chance for
> KDE-Edu. My idea is maybe to set a week-end to work on that in September or
> October, maybe as well with the KDE people porting KDE software on Windows.
> I'll tell you more when I am back from holidays and when I get the machine.
>
> 3. OLPC
>
> OLPC: maybe someone can order a machine from them and see what we can do
> for KDE-Edu software. I guess anyone interested in porting our applications
> can request an OLPC, just ask someone from the eV to back you up by adding
> an official note in the mail.
>
> 4. What's next?
> I'll be away from internet for nearly 2 months due to family holiday. I
> enjoyed being at aKademy and meeting the KDE-Edu people who were there.
> I'll be back end of August.
>
> It would be good if the KDE-Edu team could meet for a working weed-end at
> some point in late autumn/winter. The KDE project can sponsor for your
> expenses so I'd really like to set that up when I am back. I'd like to ask
> you to think about it already and see what week-ends would be possible. We
> would define the KDE 4.1 release and follow up from the ideas that came at
> aKademy.

For me (and I think many other students) it will be better it this week-end 
will not overlap with University exams (for me its last week of December and 
the whole January).

> I wish you all a nice summer!
You too, and happy holydays ;-)

>
> Regards,
>
> Anne-Marie
>
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      Best Regards,
        Vladimir