FSF in education

[Filipe Saraiva]

Hi people,

Alex Rieder, KDE Brazil team is organizing a virtual meeting about
Cantor. I will explain the Cantor code for people interested about
this topic, and we will collect some feedbacks about use case.

Marcelo, KDE Brazil team have a group of kde-edu dvelopers like me,
Tomaz, and Wagner. Let's talk about kde-edu software and what you
need. If you prefer, use my personal e-mail or use KDE Brazil maillist
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-br. Or we can continue in
kde-edu maillist, of course. =)

Cheers,

2012/8/9 Alexander Rieder <alexanderrieder at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2012 10:13:20 Melissa Mendonça wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This might be the time for me to jump into the conversation. I'm here
>> because Tomaz basically forced me to join (lol), I'm a professor at
>> the Mathematics Department at the Federal University of Santa Catarina
>> (Brazil), and I'm also very interested in these topics. However, I'm
>> more interested in the higher education part and I see great potential
>> for Cantor as a report/assignment generating tool. For example, I
>> teach programming classes in the math department (using MATLAB/Octave)
>> and my students could use Cantor to deliver code along with the
>> results and comments.
>>
>> I'm very interested and could help in the technical side (development,
>> although I'm not a very experienced C++/Qt programmer, more
>> Fortran/Python/C/Matlab).
>>
>> Anyway, Marcelo feel free to contact me in Portuguese if you need anything.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Melissa
>
> Hi,
> this sounds like a great use-case for Cantor and an even better opportunity to
> gain insight in its current shortcomings. I'd love to work with you on making
> Cantor a better tool for teaching.
> As I am a student and wrote Cantor to fit my personal needs, it would be greate
> to gain insight to your needs from a teachers prespective.
>
> best regards,
> Alexander Rieder
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Marcelo Pires <marte032 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello, okay? I am a student of mathematics, and would like to know your
>> >> opinion about mathematics and software in the world. Here in Brazil, the
>> >> government adopts free software in schools and universities, without the
>> >> prospect of building its own technology. Use free software, only to be
>> >> free, without a high cost to the government.
>> >> I'm with a thesis project where I want to discuss mathematics and Free
>> >> Software, as in fact be using free software in teaching basic math to
>> >> higher mathematics.
>> >>
>> >> I await your response.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Att. Marcelo Pires da Silva
>> >>
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>> >
>> > Hi Marcelo!
>> > It's great that you're interested in this, mathematics, education and
>> > free software is a huge subject.
>> >
>> > In KDE Edu we have some pieces of software that fit your requirements.
>> > Maybe Cantor like Tomaz said and also KAlgebra, Kmplot and if you look
>> > a bit further in the future Khipu. Khipu is specially interesting
>> > though, because it's specially aimed for teachers who want to teach
>> > mathematics in class, using the computer. In this case, for displaying
>> > wonderful plots.
>> >
>> > Said that, it would be interesting if you take a look at what we've
>> > done and kickstart a bit the discussion regarding the subjects that
>> > concern you, I'm pretty sure it can be interesting for all of us!
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>> > Aleix
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