Use of Free Software in Education Debian Day 2007, Saturday 16th Juli 2007

Knut Yrvin Community Manager – Trolltech ASA Telenor in 1986 – technical assistant Engineer in electronics – 1992 Telenor – project planning – 1993 Master in system development - 2000 Norwegian Central Securities Depository and a consultant for three years Co-founded Skolelinux in 2001 Now a part of DebianEdu Trolltech - 2006 2

Plan Important notes about software in education Language Digital Competence Demonstration Gcompris (1-7 grades) Stopmotion (5 -> grades) Qt/Qtopia programming on phones 3

Values When taking the drivers license you learn to drive safe in a constantly changing environment Driving the teachers BMW as fast as possible is not a goal. Drive safe is.

Traffic picture changes rapidly That's why the pupils needs to understand the road signs at the information highway Traffic signs must be in our native language

Master thesis by Åse Bratthammer Wen learning math you must work with it. Drilling is needed. Then hundreds of Power Point presentations of the theory is of little value. Not all ICT is bad ICT. We have to be selective. Schools has to use their advantages. Everybody knows about advantages with a word processor. That's obvious. There are simulations and animations that could be a great value for the single pupil, but it must not take all the time. Kilde: http://www.bt.no/lokalt/hordaland/article336051

Demos Gcompris Stopmotion

Demos Qt programming on Qtopia Greenphone

Communications Software Qtopia- BRIDGING THE SOFTWARE GAP ….IN MOBILE PHONES, AND…. Bridging the software gap Today’s requirements Java apps Other native apps Yesterday’s phones apps Java Applications Application platform Earlier Communications Software Operating system Linux Hardware Hardware Hardware

Qtopia- BRIDGING THE SOFTWARE GAP …IN CONSUMER ELECTRONICS POWERED BY Qtopia: Cellular Phones IP Phones (VoIP) Home Media Portable Media Game Consoles PDAs In-Vehicle Computers + a Range of Industrial Devices...

Sale of Consumer Electronics 2005 Digital Cameras – 98,8m Mobile Game Consoles – 102,7m Media Players – 132,5m PC & Laptops – 208,2m Mobile Phones – 825,4m Millions Mobile Phones Convergence Winners - ~ 990 000 000 Mobile Phones sold in 2006 - 50% of worlds population got a mobile phone in 2009

Linux growth Smartphone units shipment 2004 2005 Palm OS 4% RIM 2% RIM 1% Microsoft 4% Palm OS 6% Symbian 68% Microsoft 7% Linux 22% Linux 5% Symbian 81% 16.7 million shipments 49.0 million shipments Qtopia on 1/3 of the Linux smartphones ~ 80 million smartphones shipped in 2006

Relationship between skills learnt from FOSS and professional career Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab@dxm.org International Institute of Infonomics University of Maastricht, The Netherlands FOSS = Free and Open Source Software

FOSS Marked Position Use of FOSS in software products, by industry © Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab@dxm.org - Licensed under Creative Commons cc-nd-nc 14

Free Access for developers Pave a way for community and business Industrial partners Telenor - 100 million GSM customers Trolltech – Thousands of developers develop Qt apps. Educational partners - PATS Colleges and Universities in Norway, China, Denmark, Germany, US, South America, India etc. Community partners - PATS KDE, Open Embedded, Debian Embedded, Debian Edu (Skolelinux) Free GSM access for free software developers 15

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