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Please see the online slideshow and learn about our software!

How did it start?

The KDE-Edu project was started in July 2001. The goal of the project is to develop free educational software (GPL licence) within the KDE environment. This software is mainly aimed to schools and to parents at home.
A new KDE module was created, the kdeedu module. The applications in that module should be fully KDE compatible (use of KMainWindow, XML GUI, ...) and must get a proper documentation handbook in docbook format. Thus, all applications interfaces and documentation will be translated in more than 50 languages, via the i18n KDE teams.

Free software is not very much used in schools or at home. Linux is even less used on the desktop. We would like to contribute to the effort of offering less costly tools to schools so money can be spent for other needs. We team with other projects in order to achieve that.

What is Educational Software (also known as Eduware)?

That's how we would like to define it: educational software is software that helps a child (age 3 to 18) or an adult to learn a skill: for example to calculate the perimeter of a shape, or to correctly use language skills (such as, in English, the difference between its and it's).

Eduware should be fun, colorful and attractive.

The child (except very young ones) should be able to use it without parental supervision.

Author: Anne-Marie Mahfouf
Last update: 2008-01-11