The KDE Education Project
Newsletter 4
01 December 2001
This is the fourth newsletter from the KDE-Edu project. The project's ultimate aim is to create educational software based around KDE, the K Desktop Environment and all our projects are under an Open Source license (mainly GPL or Artistic License). This newsletter keeps you informed of the state of this project.
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What's new?
The big news this month is that we head for the first release of the kdeedu package in the very soon KDE3-beta1. This is a tremendous achievement and the developers had a lot of work to get everything ready. The docs especially (using docbook-xml) are not so easy to write!
The main mailing-list kde-edu has been very quiet during last month but the project is very much active, don't be mistaken!. We also have a devel mailing-list which is reserved for specific development questions and which was quite busy.
Projects
We still have 9 projects in cvs and 4 will soon join. This last month we could not include new projects because of the first KDE3-beta1 release which will be out soon.
If you want to try the projects, go to the project-webpage and download the tarball. You will preferably need on your system Qt-2.3.* and KDE-2.2.x..
Those of you who are adventurous could use cvs. For that, you need to compile
qt-copy from cvs (or qt-3.0.0), then kdesupport and kdelibs at least, then
kdeedu.
Those of you who are adventurous but don't know how to use cvs can
wait for the KDE3-beta1 release and grab the rpm/debs which will be prepared for
your distribution. Please remember that a beta1 is by definition unstable and
buggy!
If you have an idea for a program that would be useful, please tell us about it!
Projects in planning.
- a verbs conjugation helper: a KDE developer wrote for himself a small application to learn how to conjugate norvegian verbs. This application could be modified/improved and used in different languages.
- Kard, a memory-like game (match 2 cards) for young children which existed in KDE1 is currently being rewritten and will be a smashing game.
- KLearnSpelling is a small program to help chidren in primary schools learn their spelling words. The program will allow the teacher/parent/child to enter the list of words then the pupil will be able to test if he/she knows how to spell them.
- KPercentage is a small math application that will help a pupil with calculating percentages.
Those 4 projects are well advanced and will soon be integrated in the project.
The KDE-Edu team wish you all a very happy Christmas.
The KDE-Edu team
kde-edu@edu.kde.org
