: KDE-Educationals with gnome and win

[Sabine Emmy Eller]

Just a note: what I am noting more and more: being able to run the educationals also with gnome and win is really relevant. Most people start off with gnome and go ahead with KDE afterwards (I am one of those examples).

I believe this fact should be underlined and very visible on the KDE-Educational project linking to the "how to install KDE on Windows" - or maybe even better: create a how-to just for the educationals.

Will go ahead creating packages tomorrow - I still have to get some stuff on our website ready, otherwise organising co-operation for the single languages is getting more and more difficult.

Cu :-)

Sabine

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[Albert Astals Cid-2]

A Dimecres, 7 d'octubre de 2009, Sabine Emmy Eller va escriure:

> Just a note: what I am noting more and more: being able to run the
> educationals also with gnome and win is really relevant. Most people start
> off with gnome and go ahead with KDE afterwards (I am one of those
> examples).
>
> I believe this fact should be underlined and very visible on the
> KDE-Educational project linking to the "how to install KDE on Windows" - or
> maybe even better: create a how-to just for the educationals.
>
> Will go ahead creating packages tomorrow - I still have to get some stuff
>  on our website ready, otherwise organising co-operation for the single
>  languages is getting more and more difficult.

kdeedu programs "just work" on a gnome installation, if they do not, bug your
distribution.

Albert

>
> Cu :-)
>
> Sabine
>

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[Sabine Emmy Eller]

kdeedu programs "just work" on a gnome installation, if they do not, bug your
distribution.

Albert

 

Albert, you know that, I know that, but many out there don't. Not everybody is computer literate, just because they work with a computer. Many who have ubuntu just use the software offered from the ubuntu repositories you get through "install additional applications" - and this is not because they don't care: they simply don't know better. Some are even worrying to do that being freightened that something could happen. (No, I am not joking - it's pure reality and I am not happy about this). Today I took the openSUSE live DVD with me ... the person I gave it to did not even know that something like this exists. I am talking about a approx. 40 year old person that teaches computer science (Windows XP) to kids.

This is a marketing point which probabily is often forgotten, and this is why I mention it. Many people don't even know that something like KDE exists. If we work for free software and free contents, we want people to use it. Therefore we must find a way to lower the hurdle for them. Often it is really a 1:1 lesson you need to give and once they learn it they can start to pass things on - and it is up to us to give them the means to do this. But all that takes time. Please keep in mind that I am talking not even about those 80% of humanity that have real bad access to hardware and internet.

Cheers, Sabine

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