1. Convergence with Qt The cross platform future by Knut Yrvin Qt by Nokia

2. Knut Yrvin Open Source Community Manager ● Telenor in 1986 – technical assistant ● Engineer in electronics – 1992 ● Telenor – project planning – 1993 ● Master in system development – 2000 ● Consultant for three years – Norwegian Central Securities Depository, different banks and other industries ● Co-founded Skolelinux in 2001 – Now a part of Debian Edu ● Trolltech ASA – 2006, ● Qt Software, a Nokia Company – 2008

3. Agenda ● Ideals ● Good practice in wrong context ● Client alternatives and cost ● Next steps

4. Ideals

5. God practices, wrong context ● Vern Ceder, CTO at Cantebury School, Fort Wayne ● He had worked for over a year convincing teachers to use a Linux desktop at their school ● He invited at LUG enthusiast to show how Linux may work in practice

6. The LUG enthusiast: ● Apache as the biggest success in FOSS, showing it ● Command line as a great tool, showing it ● Thick clients are great, installing and tailor each pc bottom up ● Free Flash player (Gnash) and no proprietary movies ● doc and docx are really bad

7. A LUG enthusiast may recommend a 1996 Linux desktop

8. It's 15 years with development since 1996 The 2009 version > 7000 end user applications

9. Teachers presented the 1996 desktop? Worst system ever! Vern had to restart the session showing GCompris and KDE Edu The project was delayed with half a year...

10. Teachers expects: ● A Learning Management System – They could not care less about Apache ● A graphical desktop with GUI apps – Command line, newer! ● As little installing and configuration as possible. USB support is mandatory ● Flash, Java and video must work out of the box ● No problems with doc and docx

11. Just give teachers what they want

12. Desktop alternatives

13. Linux Educacional

14. mEDUXa

15. LinEx

16. Sugar Desktop

17. KDE Netbook

18. Distro alternatives

19. Skolelinux, LinEx, Debian Edu

20. Linux Educacional

21. K12LTSP

22. Edubuntu

23. Practical use

24. Shared content

25. Perception and realities ● To few apps, nobody supports Linux? – No, to many applications. It's difficult to choose ● To many desktop alternatives? – Wrong, it's two alternatives in practice. – Applications blends in nicely. E.g KDE 4 apps got GNOME look and vice versa ● Must learn what's used in businesses – Yes, and free software will be included in 80% of the software products in 2012 according to Gartner – Who know that a web browser would be the most important tool 15 years ago?

26. Client types ● Thick clients – known as stationary PC's. SW runs locally ● Thin clients – SW runs on servers. X11 clients ● Graphical clients – SW runs on servers. Citrix or FreeNX clients. Local OS. Network saturation stops graphics... ● Low Fat (Diskless) clients – SW comes from servers. SW runs locally ● Laptops/Netbooks/MiD – SW runs locally. Wireless network challenges

27. Client alternatives and cost

28. Maintenance cost annually

29. Next steps?

30. © Nokia 2009 30 Qt is used everywhere From embedded devices to desktop applications By companies from many industries

31. Kool Desktop Environment Matthias Ettrich’s Vision  A GUI for end users (not X11 or Motif)  Browse the web  Write email  Play games  A desktop for my girlfriend...

32. Running “Desktop” software on Mobile Internet Devices

33. KOffice...

35. © Nokia 2009 Qt / C++

36. Stopmotion, best student project 2006

37. © Nokia 2009 Next steps

38. Thank you! Q & A