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  On the Fridge: KDE Invasion in the Canary Islands
KDE Success Story Posted by Richard Johnson on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @13:46
from the be-cool-stay-in-school dept.
Ubuntu's Fridge is reporting that Kubuntu is taking the Canary Islands. KDE is being installed on all of the school computers in the Canary Islands by the way of mEDUXa and in their universities with Bardinux, both derivatives of the Kubuntu GNU/Linux operating system. KDE's Aaron Seigo and Jonathan Riddell toured the schools in which mEDUXa is in use and spoke with the developers during the Jornadas de Software Libre conference. During that conference, Aaron Seigo presented KDE 4 and its exciting capabilities as well as an introduction to KDE and Qt programming.


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You rock Aaron
by jumpingcube on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @15:31
definitly, we need more sales people - software presenters with elite skills like aaron...
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  • Re: You rock Aaron
    by Richard Johnson on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @15:59
    Marketing and Business Management is my game, at least that is what all of this schooling has told me...now if I can just get them elite "Aaron" skills, then I will be truly happy. Oh, and I need one of them "Jonathan" kilts too.
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    • Re: You rock Aaron
      by Aaron J. Seigo on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @16:09
      Richard, we need more people with MBA-type experience within Free Software in general and KDE in specific. If you are interested in participating with the project in this manner, please get a hold of me and let's start talking. =)

      KDE: It's more than just code. =)

      p.s. Nobody wears a quilt quite like Jonathan ;)
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      • Re: You rock Aaron
        by she on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @21:27
        And after your experience with the school project, it would be nice to tell your experience about this specific project too - where's your blog ;)
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    • Re: You rock Aaron
      by Aaron J. Seigo on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @16:09
      Richard, we need more people with MBA-type experience within Free Software in general and KDE in specific. If you are interested in participating with the project in this manner, please get a hold of me and let's start talking. =)

      KDE: It's more than just code. =)

      p.s. Nobody wears a kilt quite like Jonathan ;)
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      • Re: You rock Aaron
        by Wade on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @19:30
        As luck would have it, both spellings equally apply here.
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Schools
by T. J. Brumfield on Monday 01/Oct/2007, @23:48
I always thought that schools seemed more of a logical place for Linux adoption than the average home desktop.
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  • Re: Schools
    by Uwe Thiem on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @03:46
    300+ schools in Namibia run LTSP-based labs with Linux and KDE thanks to SchoolNet Namibia (http://www.schoolnet.na). ;-)

    Maybe, Aaron would like to come to Namibia as well? I would be very pleased to meet him personally.

    Uwe
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    • Re: Schools
      by Aaron J. Seigo on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @07:11
      if we could find a way to get me there, i'd *love* to visit to learn about Namibia, the people who live there and the Free software they (you) use ...
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      • Re: Schools
        by Odysseus on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @12:14
        And its a great place for a holiday, still rates tops of all my African visits...
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Power to the People!
by winter on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @05:18
I really like it how small or developing countries make intelligent decisions like this one. It's the huge behemoth companies and governments that can't adjust get stuck in some ridiculous proprietary system. We all know what I am talking about. ;)
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  • Re: Power to the People!
    by attendant on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @10:56
    I'm pretty sure the Canary Islands are part of Spain.
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    • Re: Power to the People!
      by Richard Dale on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @12:18
      Yes, you're right they are part of Spain, but the Islands are indeed quite small. In Spain the provinces have a great deal of control over their education systems, and so the Canaries are able choose an approach independent from the Peninsular.
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Kreat!
by Martin on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @07:13
Kongratulations to the Kanary islands! I'm sure they will be very happy with KDE.
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Primary desktop
by AV on Tuesday 02/Oct/2007, @10:16
The screenshot for the "primary" desktop looks quite interesting...

http://www.grupocpd.com/archivos_documentos/info_meduxa/lanzamiento_meduxa_1/
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I'm from the Canaries!
by Mars on Wednesday 03/Oct/2007, @07:45
I'm from the Canary Islands and i haven't even heard of this step in the schools (and i'm a linux user :-s ). Show how much attention i pay to the media :P.
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