Wish we were there..

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Sep 9 18:54:59 UTC 2003


hi diego

What is the level of your lectured?
What are you teaching them?
Do you think my book could help them?

What the 80000 PCers will do? Will squeak be installed on them.

Stef

Diego tell us more. What do you think is possible? Do you think that a 
spanish version of the
book would help?

(I'm about to send the final version to reviewers).

On Mardi, sep 9, 2003, at 20:46 Europe/Zurich, 
<diegogomezdeck at consultar.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> We are there!!!!!!!
>
> As some of you knows We (we=small-land) are working hard with LinEx
> (www.linex.org).  Linex will install 80000 PCs with a debian subdistro 
> and
> I'm (just these days) giving a course of Squeak to 30 early 
> teachers-early-
> adopters.
>
> We have an almost complete-Spanish version of squeak instalable with 
> APT.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Diego
>
>
>> For the interested, a few excerpts about something we will be an
>> automatic part of when we achieve Debian inclusion.
>>
>> ************
>> Yes, Skolelinux, a project to create a Linux distribution with the 
>> goal
>> of replacing the proprietary operating systems in schools throughout
>> Norway.
>> ...
>> Knut, thank you very much for your time. Firstly, can you tell us 
>> about
>> the beginnings of Skolelinux? What motivated the initiation of the
>> project?
>>
>> It all started when Petter [Reinholdtsen, the project's system
>> architect] and myself, were attending a summer party one day in June
>> 2001. We talked about how sad it was that most local schools had 
>> little
>> besides old computers and a few applications running on Windows, and
>> very little money for upgrades. We found it frustrating that
>> closed-source software prevented our pupils interested in technical,
>> under-the-hood things from learning by example - from source code
>> written by expert programmers. That's when we decided to stop talking
>> about it and simply do it. We had a start-up meeting on July 2, 2001,
>> with 13 participants and 12 other interested parties who could not
>> attend personally.
>> ...
>> How many schools are using Skolelinux at present?
>>
>> Officially about 20. But unofficially we have reports of entire towns,
>> municipalities and counties that are testing Skolelinux in one or two
>> schools before making an official commitment.
>> ...
>> You have chosen Debian GNU/Linux as a base for your distribution. Any
>> particular reasons?
>>
>> The openness, Debian project's acceptance of our contributions,
>> apt-get, the conservative and well-tested packages and of course, the
>> community - these were the main reasons.
>> *********
>>
>> The entire article is available at LWN, a high quality Linux 
>> newsletter
>> at http://lwn.net/Articles/46850/. Their policy is that paying
>> subscribers can read content now, non-payers a week later.
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
>
>



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