: Open Schools Alliance

Hi,

Today I discovered a web site called Open Schools Alliance:
http://www.openschoolsalliance.org/

They describe themselves as:
"The Open Schools Alliance is an umbrella group supported by open source 
businesses, technical experts, educationalists and concerned citizens.

We are united by the common belief that the UK could enhance education, 
save taxpayers' money and strengthen its IT sector by treating Open 
Source Software fairly."

Since KDE also comes with a lot of great educational programs I think it 
would be in its interest to also join and cooperate with the alliance. 
I've seen that GNOME Foundation is already listed on the list of supporters.

What do you think about this?

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Re: : Open Schools Alliance -> KDE-Edu promo

Hi,

> Today I discovered a web site called Open Schools Alliance:
> http://www.openschoolsalliance.org/
Yes, you are right, I just registered KDE-Edu.

I got a bit tired of hunting these sorts of things because 
1) I felt I was alone in KDE-Edu to do so (but I see you are there now!)
2) I tried to get involved in http://www.schoolforge.net/ but in the end I 
never understood what it was about. I get lengthy mails which I don't  
understand...

I think that we should be a core team to take care of relations with such 
organizations and edu distributions and also to try to impulse a new life in 
KDE-Edu. Now is the right moment: KDE4 opens us new ways and educational 
distributions are numerous and making their ways into schools.
What do they want from KDE-Edu? How can we fullfit it? What can we propose?

Anne-Marie

Re: : Open Schools Alliance -> KDE-Edu promo

A Dissabte 02 Desembre 2006 10:57, vàreu escriure:
> Hi,
>
> > Today I discovered a web site called Open Schools Alliance:
> > http://www.openschoolsalliance.org/
>
> Yes, you are right, I just registered KDE-Edu.
>
> I got a bit tired of hunting these sorts of things because
> 1) I felt I was alone in KDE-Edu to do so (but I see you are there now!)
> 2) I tried to get involved in http://www.schoolforge.net/ but in the end I
> never understood what it was about. I get lengthy mails which I don't
> understand...
>
> I think that we should be a core team to take care of relations with such
> organizations and edu distributions and also to try to impulse a new life
> in KDE-Edu. Now is the right moment: KDE4 opens us new ways and educational
> distributions are numerous and making their ways into schools.
> What do they want from KDE-Edu? How can we fullfit it? What can we propose?
>
> Anne-Marie

Hi Annma, i know you are/were not quite happy with KDE e.V. itself, but do you 
think it would be worth bringing that to a more "formal" level and engaging 
the e.V. in this "supporting" thing?

Albert

>
> _______________________________________________

[kde-edu]: EDU page on the development wiki

Hello, 

I took the liberty of adding all of the Edu apps to our page on the developer 
wiki (http://developernew.kde.org/Projects/Edu).  Previously, only KmPlot and 
KPercentage were listed.  None of the pages for individual apps actually 
exist yet, however.  I categorized the apps in the same way they are listed 
at edu.kde.org, but maybe this classification needs to be revisited (i.e., 
how can KVocTrain and KWordQuiz be in different categories?).

Anyway, let's have a discussion about what people envision for these pages.  
This is a wiki for developers, so we probably want something here besides 
repeating the information on our webpages.

For a starting point of this discussion, I'll point out the Quality Team KDE 
Edu wiki page here:  
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Quality+Team+KDE+Edu

Here we see a very nice presentation of developer-related information for all 
of our apps (docu status, bug reports, TODO lists, communication/promotion, 
and User interface).

Maybe we want to start with this page at developernew.  Rather than linking to 
a bunch of app-specific pages, it may be more useful to browse the relevant 
information for all of the apps on the same page.  Not to mention it would be 
easier to maintain.

Of course, this brings up the question:  Which location is a better place for 
this information, developernew.k.o, or wiki.k.o?  Given that developernew 
will eventually replace developer, I'd argue that we should place the 
information there rather than at wiki.k.o.

[kde-edu]: invitation to developernew.kde.org

hi kde edu team!

as usual, you folks have produced an excellent example for the rest of kde 
when it comes to documentation and building a developer community. there is a 
large number of really great articles on edu.kde.org, particularly here:

	http://edu.kde.org/development/

much of it is of general interest to kde developers i would think, such as the 
hot new stuff tutorial, kaction tutorial, etc...

i'd like to extend an invitation to all of you to consider joining your 
efforts with ours on developernew.kde.org[1] so that we can have all of our 
developer content in one location. the benefits of this are:

 - it will make our content easy to find
 - it will avoid duplication of effort as we all work in one place
 - we can help keep each other's tutorials and other information up to date 
(huzzah for wikis =)

we're trying to make the often asked for and long wanted central location for 
developer information. our plan is a three step one:

1) get as much of our content, which is currently spread out all over the 
internet, into one place
2) add new content
3) simultaneously with (2) organize the content into a good structure

right now we're primarily working on (1) and just starting on (2). we're to be 
found on #kde-www on irc and of course i'm always available by email. i'm 

Re: [kde-edu]: invitation to developernew.kde.org

Hello,

I'm excited about the new developer wiki; I'm planning to write up an 
article on using designer to create user interfaces, and I will also 
volunteer to port Andreas's tutorial on kdeeduplot to the wiki, along 
with updates reflecting recent changes I made to the API (unless Andreas 
wants to do it!)

I could also help with porting some of our other tutorials at 
edu.kde.org, but I probably won't have too much time until mid-January 
or so.

Jason

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi kde edu team!
> 
> as usual, you folks have produced an excellent example for the rest of kde 
> when it comes to documentation and building a developer community. there is a 
> large number of really great articles on edu.kde.org, particularly here:
> 
> 	http://edu.kde.org/development/
> 
> much of it is of general interest to kde developers i would think, such as the 
> hot new stuff tutorial, kaction tutorial, etc...
> 
> i'd like to extend an invitation to all of you to consider joining your 
> efforts with ours on developernew.kde.org[1] so that we can have all of our 
> developer content in one location. the benefits of this are:
> 

Re: [kde-edu]: invitation to developernew.kde.org

On Friday 22 December 2006 12:25, Jason Harris wrote:
> I'm excited about the new developer wiki; I'm planning to write up an
> article on using designer to create user interfaces, and I will also
> volunteer to port Andreas's tutorial on kdeeduplot to the wiki, along
> with updates reflecting recent changes I made to the API (unless Andreas
> wants to do it!)
>
> I could also help with porting some of our other tutorials at
> edu.kde.org, but I probably won't have too much time until mid-January
> or so.

great news! if you have any questions or just want to rap don't hesitate to 
hunt me down. =)

i've also been speaking w/pintoree and annma about this on irc as well and 
have added some links on the Tutorials page.

kde4's developer.kde.org is going to rock. heck, it already is.

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