plasma classroom

[Mario Fux]

Am Mittwoch 15 September 2010, 09:12:07 schrieb LucaTringali:

Good morning Luca

> >Don't let people dream to much. Do something let some people work with it
> >and see how it works.
> 
> Obiously we cannot do everything they will ask, but we can try to make real
> the main ideas.

Of course and btw. sorry if it looks as I want to work against you! You're of 
course more than right when you talk about the fact, that we need to include 
teachers.

What I meant was that there are a lot of teachers, a lot of different 
educational theories, a lot of school systems and we can't provide the right 
solution for everyone.

When we start with a small (relative) group of teachers I think the success 
could be bigger. I'm still thinking and pondering of the idea of a diploma 
thesis about the Plasma Classroom (Desktop) in the field with means evaluating 
what a school thinks about it... Could start at the end of the year. Do you 
plasma guys will have some code ready by then ;-)?

> That's because, in my experiences, I seen that only teachers knows what they
> really need. More than that, if we ask them what they need and we realize
> it, they will use Plasma Classroom: it's like we build the solutions just
> for them. This could be a big opportunity to make a lot of teacher turn from
> propietary software to KDE and GNU/Linux. But we need to encourage them,
> giving what they want. Else we will do the same error that Microsoft does:
> creating things without thinking about the people that will use them.

Absolutely. There is a big opportunity. Unfortunately the school I migrated to 
Linux and KDE several years back switched now back to Windows 7 and Office 10.

Still try to get out why exactly...

BTW: Your mails are somehow not aligned to the discussion thread in my email 
client (Kmail).

> Luca Tringali

thx
Mario