The KDE Education Project
Newsletter 7
01 March 2002
This is the newsletter number 7 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 licence (mainly GPL or Artistic Licence). This newsletter keeps you informed of the state of this project.
Website
http://edu.kde.org
The website has been reorganized, the menu on the left under Software has now
categories instead of the list of all programs.
What's new?
In February, the two main UK Linux magazines (Linux
Format and Linux Magazine)
have featured articles on KDE and KDE-Edu.
Few primary schools in the UK have Linux and the Educational market in the UK
is seen as very important by a lot of people (the BBC amongs them).
Let's hope the Linux and KDE-Edu will make it in schools soon!
Some teachers already use Linux and a Dutch teacher recorded Dutch sounds for
KLettres. KLettres is now available in French and Dutch.
http://edu.kde.org/klettres
The same teacher also provided all the spelling words for Dutch primary school for
KLearnSpelling. They are for download as an add-on package to KLearnSpelling.
Thanks a lot for all these data, I hope that more will follow in other
languages.
http://edu.kde.org/klearnspelling
It is essential for us to get some feedback from teachers and students.
KLearnSpelling will really benefit from the ideas submitted by this teacher and
will be improved according to that feedback.
Update
KStars, the KDE desktop planetarium, moved its main website to http://edu.kde.org/kstars/. Please update your bookmarks!
New project
KmPlot is a mathematical function plotter for the KDE-Desktop.
http://edu.kde.org/kmplot
Also in preparation are the visualization of an oscilloscope and a topography program. I'll present these projects when they are more advanced.
Download
You can download packages from the website, usually these packages are tarballs that run on KDE2. Each page should explain the commands to issue to install these packages.
The versions in development for KDE3 HEAD are in the kdeedu package for the coming release. The branch POST_KDE_3_0_BRANCH helds all the programs that will be integrated in KDE3.1. The kdeedu module from CVS needs qt-copy, kdesupport, arts, kdelibs and kdebase to run.
KDE3 beta2
On the 13th February 2002, the beta2 was out.
Please check
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0beta2.html
to find the packages you need to try it!
The KDE-Edu team
kde-edu@edu.kde.org
