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[Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

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From: Michael Hall <olc@ninti.com>
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Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Feedback needed from teachers for the


OK, I'm starting again ...

Anne-Marie:

Will the KDE-Edu package work on older versions of KDE? I have a 
RedHat 6.2 machine and a RedHat 7.2 machine.

I can contribute wordlists in the following languages to
KLearn Spelling. I am a qualified and experienced teacher of ESL 
and LOTE (Languages Other Than English) and have an MA in Applied 
Linguistics, if any of that makes any difference.

Spanish
Portuguese
Italian
Arabic
Luritja
Pitjantjatjara

I'm guessing that your Arabic may be much better than mine. Does 
KDE support Arabic? Hal inti lubnaaniya aw filasteeniya mumkin?

The three romance languages are probably straightforward enough, 
and you may find native speaking teachers fairly easily.

The last two are Australian languages, spoken by about 5000 or 
6000 people (including very young kids). KDE support for these 
languages is probably not possible, as it is very difficult to 
translate technical terms into these languages. Could we use an 
English interface perhaps? I'm interested in pursuing these 
particular languages despite whatever difficulties may present 
themselves.

By the way, what programming language is KLearnSpelling written in?

Michael Hall



On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Anne-Marie MAHFOUF wrote:


 > Hi,
 >

 > > Anyway, at the end of the day Anne-Marie and I might have
 > > more things in common than not. We probably agree that
 > > Linux the technology is embedded in a very complex 
socio-political

 >

 > > and economic global context characterised by inequality, and 
that
 > > perhaps Linux may help address some of this inequality. I'd like
 > > to do just what Doug suggested and 'start again', if possible.

 >
 > Of course, there are no hard feelings.
 >
 > I think I will try to see which schools in Europe use Linux 
and what
 > they do. The Free Software Foundation will held a meeting in 
London
 > (UK) next week and education is a topic. I'll be able to go there.
 > I'll let you know what we talk about.
 >
 > Anne-Marie
 >
 >
 >
 >


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