Current mood:	chipper
Entry tags:	brazil, desktop, kde, linux, opensource, schools

Doing things in a big way
There is currently is a huge computer rollout in Brazil schools - a total of 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students! (read the article for even more impressive figures for 2009). Interesting is the use of multi headed displays, something that Dan was looking into the other day.

     http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html

 "In a word, it is humongous."

I was impressed at these huge numbers. I suppose it is going to be the same when India and China come on stream. Anything we do will pale in comparison to their efforts and any claim we might have to being an IT leader is very probably only fleeting.

I did manage click on the impressive list of applications that they are deploying or building with this KDE Linux desktop rollout. I hope that some of my Portuguese speaking students could help me translate and read these pages at the school breakfast club.