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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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:

7. Demos
Gcompris
Stopmotion

8. Demos
Qt programming on Qtopia Greenphone

9. 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

10. 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...

11. 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
- ~ Mobile Phones sold in 2006
- 50% of worlds population got a mobile phone in 2009

12. 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

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

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

15. Free Access for developers Pave a way for community and business
Industrial partners
Telenor 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

16. Join PATS http://www.pats.no Building developer community
with free software and
gratis GSM access 16