[Ambassadors] Open Source in school presentation

[Pawel Sadowski]

On 04-09-2006, mon at 23:32 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Pawel Sadowski wrote:
> 
> > It will be rather a live-show than just presentation. As slides, I will
> > show just the intro information page about the topic and me, questions &
> > answers slide and a closing slide. The rest will be presentation of
> > applications that can be used in school (both, for teachers and
> > students). I would be grateful if you could propose some worth-showing
> > apps to present.
> > 
> > All based on Fedora of course ;)
> > 
> 
> I believe Kushal (CC'ed) was looking for a similar set of apps. Maybe he 
> can help out here. Ideally we would have a Fedora Extras Edu SIG to do 
> this job. We are also working on comps file there to categorize 
> applications better.

I remember there was something like that... maybe he will have some
advices ;)

> Meanwhile depending on age group, there a number of applications ranging 
> from Tux typing to KDE edu set of apps at http://edu.kde.org/ and GNOME 
> apps at http://www.gnomefiles.org/subcategory.php?sub_cat_id=49.
> 
> Music and Photo managers, Chat apps like gaim (esp the ability to 
> connect to multiple protocols), office suites (for school work) and 
> games are particular attractive to teenagers.
> 
> The Free software nature of Fedora also means that you dont have any 
> boundaries or padlocks to prevent you from learning anything in it. All 
> of what we provide right from the kernel to the games are all open to 
> learn from, modify and play with. That is also worth pointing out.
> 
> Start with things they would be interested in instead of drowning them 
> in the history of the project and list of sub projects.

Yeah - I know. This is what I wanted to say before, but it would be a
little bit off-topic ;)

Thanks for your advice.

Regards,
Pawel