Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:40:58 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld To: Jonathan Ben Avraham Cc: ILUG Subject: Re: eTextBooks (for kids) That argument is like the arguments against writing free software because it will put the software vendors out of business. It

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Dov Grobgeld
That argument is like the arguments against writing free software because it will put the software vendors out of business. It is clear that the interest of the consumer is to have the information available for free, and if someone wants to volunteer their time to provide this information for free,

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi All, Don't forget that there is a large industry of authors and publishers who make their living on the current paper book model. Like music, this is a content market whose reason for existence is payment for content. I think that a better idea for a free education project in this direction

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2009-09-07 Thread mbrace7forums
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Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread sara fink
If you have the books, you can copy the relevant chapter that will be learned in the specific day and give it to the kid. You only have to know in advance, which chapter will be learned. BTW, there is a knesset member that is from israel beitenu, Anastasia Michaeli that she is activist in the fiel

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Dov Grobgeld
This reminds me of a "public service" project that I have thought about for some time. It would be nice if someone created some free (as in license) books that would pass the requirements of the education ministry. These could then be downloaded as e-books or printed, copied partially, photocopied,

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Ely Levy
That's a bit off topic I think? Anyhow, matach uploaded quite a few books online, just schools don't use them Ely On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Is there a place to buy electronic versions of textbooks for (israeli) > > school children? > > The schools don't have places f

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Is there a place to buy electronic versions of textbooks for (israeli) > school children? > The schools don't have places for kids to keep their books on premises, so > they have to schlep all their books all day long. They are heavy.  I'd > rather they carried a small laptop or e-book reader. >

Re: [Haifux] Me Volunteering to Give a Presentation

2009-09-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/9/7 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda : > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > ... >> Remember, LUG is Linux _User_ Group, so I think that the lectures >> should focus on the users. > > "      What's in a name? that which we call a rose >      By any other name would smell as sweet; " > >

eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Justin
Is there a place to buy electronic versions of textbooks for (israeli) school children? The schools don't have places for kids to keep their books on premises, so they have to schlep all their books all day long. They are heavy. I'd rather they carried a small laptop or e-book reader. Any ideas?

Re: preg_match and Hebrew?

2009-09-07 Thread Justin
Zend operates out of some pretty swank offices in Ramat Gan. So I doubt the PHP core team would be able to get very far without keeping some kind of Hebrew support. 2009/8/4 Yuval Hager > Let's try some regex matching in PHP. > , > | php > echo preg_match('/\w/', 'a'); > | 1 > ` > > ok,