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Dr. Geo II for OLPC

Mont de Marsan, the 25 of February 2008 - OFSET, the organisation for free software in education and teaching, announces the release of Dr. Geo II, an interactive geometry software for the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC).

This release has been produced with the support of TOP, the Taiwan Open Source Project, with funding from the Ministry of Economy, Taiwan. It is a jointly managed project by Gjun Information Co.,Ltd., STEPS, and Software Liberty Association, Taiwan (SLAT).

About Dr. Geo II

Dr. Geo II is an interactive geometry environment and library, Morphic-based and Smalltalk programmed. It can be embedded and mixed with any existing Morph user interface elements of the Squeak OLPC environment: interactive book, multimedia document, EToys graphic programming, etc. Thus, Dr. Geo II follows the pedagogical constructivist approach promoted by the OLPC project and Squeak. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DrGeo

About OFSET

OFSET is an organisation dedicated to the development of free software for education and teaching. To do so, it develops free software for education and also documentation for the development and the use of free software. To know more about its projects visit http://www.ofset.org/projects