[FM Discuss] Bachelor thesis + german translations of FM

[adam]

ok, i am also in town then...anyone else want to meet up?

adam


On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 14:00 +0200, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 12:28 PM, adam wrote:
> 
> > shall we arrange a fm meet up in berlin during Linuxtag?
> 
> I will be there on Thursday, June 10th, it would be great to have a meeting then!
> 
> Rita
> > 
> > adam
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 09:47 +0200, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
> >> On May 29, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Simon Tretter wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi guys,
> >>> 
> >>> I am currently doing my bachelor thesis in Mediadesign/Mediaart at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
> >>> 
> >>> I want to help to see free software as a real alternative to proprietary solutions in schools and youthwork. 
> >>> I know that there is a lot of stuff online, but unfortunately, most of it in English, which in these parts of 
> >>> Germany, many teachers don't understand.
> >>> 
> >>> My work is divided in three parts:
> >>> 
> >>> - The Operating System
> >>> I will develop a System based on (L)Ubuntu or puredyne, which runs on old machines (Pentium III/IV class) 
> >>> and can be used in creative work and media education. I am going to install it in a school or youth club 
> >>> and document the reactions of the teaching personel.
> >>> 
> >>> - The Web Platform
> >>> To ensure the sustainability of the project, I will create a website including a mediawiki, where teachers,
> >>> youthworkers and software developers can collaborate on the documentation of free software.
> >>> 
> >>> - The Movie
> >>> In the Movie "Voices for free foftware in media education", developers and users of free software answer the 
> >>> question, why (if?) the usage of free software in education is possible and makes sense.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> First of: Is anyone interested in helping out? Do you have existing projects / people in mind that could be
> >>> interesting? If any of you are willing to give me an interview (and are living in Europe), I'd be glad to come
> >>> by.
> >> 
> >> I'm at the university in Magdeburg teaching students and teachers, we do have a competence lab "classroom of the future" where we are testing different settings for classrooms. Among others, we promote Squeak Etoys, a free and open-source education environment. I'm also with Squeakland Foundation, the organisation which takes care, promotes and maintains the software. We do have some german material, and we are using FLOSS manuals to create a reference manual for Etoys. First in english, but we will translate it afterwards. 
> >> If you are interested especially in this software, we have our annual meeting next weekend in Potsdam. We will also present it at Linuxtag next week in Berlin. 
> >>> 
> >>> For the web platform, I do not want to reenvent the wheel, so my plan is to point to sites like FM wherever
> >>> I can. Unfortunatly, I can not find any german manuals here, so if there really are none, I'd be willing to
> >>> translate some of them.
> >> 
> >> We have started the german translation of the Sugar manual here:
> >> 
> >> http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar_de/WebHome
> >> 
> >> It would be great if we could finish this :)
> >> 
> >> Greetings,
> >> Rita
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> Please tell me what you think.
> >>> 
> >>> Greetings
> >>> Simon
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
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