FSF in education

[Alexander Rieder]

On Wednesday 08 August 2012 11:02:57 Filipe Saraiva wrote:
> 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.

Cool! Thanks for doing this. Please keep me posted about the results.

Cheers,
Alexander


> 
> 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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> >> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu
> >> > 
> >> > 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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> >> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu
> > 
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