Debian Edu goes Lomiri - Tablets for Education in the Free World

Track: Main Track

Type: Regular Talk

Room: Campo Foyez (Main Track)

Time: Aug 29 (Sat): 10:15

Duration: 0:40

This talk will provide you with a quick overview of what Debian Edu is and what its current development status is. And it will provide you with a similarly quick overview of what Lomiri is and also what its current status is.

The talk will then dive into a story about possibilities to replace commercial vendor-locked-in mainstream solutions for tablet usage in classrooms and offer an alternative approach based on Lomiri, the operating shell powering the Ubuntu Touch phone/tablet operating system and Debian / Debian Edu.

In one of our current projects at Fre(i)e Software GmbH we have been provided with sufficient budget to maintain Lomiri in Debian forky and integrate a tablet-oriented installation scheme into the Debian Edu installer.

In addition, as part of this funded project, we encourage developers to program new apps for Lomiri / Ubuntu Touch with educational use-cases in mind. In the course of this initiative, we plan to bring educational (and other) native Lomiri apps to Debian, as well, so we have them available for the Debian Edu Installer.