Georges Khaznadar
Accepted Talks:
Pocket Debian, in my high school
Debian in my school
As a teacher of physics and chemistry (and marginally, computer science) in a French high school, I have to bring reliable applications and tools to my students. Even if Debian will finally spread the world, it has not yet pervaded the end-user computers which my students can access.
An instant Debian environment
Here comes “Jean Bart - Knoppix”, the pocket Debian live thumbdrive, which allows my students to boot Debian’s scientific environment in a single minute. In tight agreement with the employee who manages my school’s computers, we let users boot the machines from external disks, like this particular thumbdrive.
Touring through the scientific applications intended for students
During the short talk, I shall give an overview of the scientific applications which are available in this particular environment, present shortly which of them are most used by the students, and which less frequently. One of these applications drives a low-cost, yet powerful data acquisition and signal generating box, which provides quite a complete scientific workshop, with an oscilloscope and a few signal sources.
I am eager to hear suggestions for alternatives uses and for improvements of this appliance.
Pocket Debian for science at school: workshop
Debian in my school
As a teacher of physics and chemistry (and marginally, computer science) in a French high school, I have to bring reliable applications and tools to my students. Even if Debian will finally spread the world, it has not yet pervaded the end-user computers which my students can access.
An instant Debian environment
Here comes “Jean Bart - Knoppix”, the pocket Debian live thumbdrive, which allows my students to boot Debian’s scientific environment in a single minute. In tight agreement with the employee who manages my school’s computers, we let users boot the machines from external disks, like this particular thumbdrive.
Experimenting the applications
Attendees of the workshop are welcome to ask for any use we might make of the live thumbdrives which will be demonstrated. I shall bring a few Expeyes boxes, and give an overview of scientific experiments which can be performed with such a frugal technology setup. More than one experiment may be fun!
Debian Desktop, for the elderly
I was born in year 1955.
So, I can explore the world of elderly people as an insider. This short talk is about a series of workshops which I organized in a French computer club which often gathers a small society of elderly people, most of whom are retired for a long time.
Debian may be a good system for the elderly, when someone can tune it finely for each particular user. We shall consider a catalog of situations implying individual users, and their feelings about such a disruptive environment (just imagine: having lived all one’s life with W$, and discover freedom).
You know? old timers are not that different from you. Maybe some day you will feel like them?