Short report: Conference with free software in schools, Narvik
Bjarne Nielsen, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Alf Tonny Bätz and Knut Yrvin had
several talks at the one day conference on free software in schools,
organized by Narvik municipality, Friday 24 April 2009.
It was more than 20 participants from local schools and neighbouring
municipalities. The program was like this:
10:00 Start at The Narvik town hall
- with introduction by Viggo Fedreheim.
10:15 The computer staff in Narvik gives and overview of operation
10:45 Skolelinux are arriving Ankenes primary school
(they got more than 200 computers and 7 smart boards)
11:00 An presentation of Rosegarden with Alf Tonny Bätz
The school served lunch and cakes. They had excellent cakes, which
was not an obvious thing they said. But because they had saved
lots of money running Skolelinux, they had money left for cakes ;)
12:00 Bjarne Nielsen presents centrally maintained Skolelinux
installations both in the city of Oslo and Hurum municipality.
12:30 A walk through at the school, showing pupils in full
action using free software to study, doing presentations etc.
13:30 Klaus Ade Johnstad did an impressive presentation with KDE and
Ubuntu Remix on Netbooks.
14:15 Knut Yrvin had a tree packed presentation on costs running
Skolelinux installations managed centrally, OpenOffice.org with
municipality software. His presentation ended with the fun part,
presenting how Qt is used, and how Nokia is putting their whole
weight behind free software cross platform, cross devices with Qt.
Yrvin also showed how Nokia are engaging more with free software
communities, e.g the cooperation with KDE using Qt.
16:00 the users conference was finished.
We had a nice informal dinner in the evening with the principal at
Ankenes primary school. Astrid Sletting was of course there. She is a
schools pedagogic advisor for the school when using Internet and
software in teaching. The people from the computer staff in Narvik
joined. It was a really nice end to the one day conference. The dinner
we paid our self.
Oh, here is a short summary of the event publish at the school home
page, in Norwegian. Nice pictures for those who don't speak Norwegian
yet ;)
http://www.narvikskolen.no/ankenesb/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=131
Best regards
Knut Yrvin
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