Client alternatives in schools

Speaker: Knut Yrvin

Since 2000 there has been a steady growth of municipalities, regions and countries deploy free software at schools. Big deployments are done in Spain, Germany and Brazil. Several projects are targeting schools as distributions as Skolelinux, Edubuntu and K12LTSP to netbooks as One Laptop per Child and Classmate PC. The co-founder of Skolelinux Knut Yrvin asks how the desktop are received so far and what can be improved in respect of educational use. He will look at mEDUXA on the Canary Island and Sugar from One Laptop per Child and ask how KDE may improve the desktop tailored for use in education.