Contact from OFSET, Edubuntu Summit, 1-3 July 2005

[Jane Weideman]

Hi Hilaire,
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 14:05 +0200, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Hello Jane, 
> 
> 
> I have heard about an Edubuntu summit targeted toward a ubuntu version
> for education. I am contacting you because I am the president of OFSET
> and we are longtime developpers of free end-user software for education
> (not architecture side as it is the case for Ubuntu).
>  We have been worked on software like DrGeo, Gcompris, COLLATINVS and
> contributed to many others. We have also developped customized versions
> of Freeduc-cd to give a feel and taste to the teachers about the free
> software they can use in their respective field. 
> So we are mainly working in the end-user software side of your
> integration project althought we have also been working on Debian
> packaging for freeduc-cd.
> 
> I guess there are areas where we could collaborate and I would like to
> see with you how this could be done.

We are very open to collaborating. Feel free to join our mailing list
(which I have cc'ed on this message), where we are beginning to talk
about developments and collaboration opportunities. Details are on our
web page www.edubuntu.org (which is still very new and modest).

Will you be joining us at the summit in July?

> 
> Best regards,
> Hilaire
> 
> Some references you may already know about:
> 
> http://wwww.ofset.org/drgeo
> http://wwww.ofset.org/gcompris
> http://wwww.ofset.org/freeduc-ecole
> http://wwww.ofset.org/freeduc-games
> And more generally:
> http://wwww.ofset.org/projects
> 

Many thanks for the links, we will certainly take a loot at them.

Regards
-- 
JaneW
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