Re: Overview, roadmap, priorities
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>
> > 1. dict
> Well, but why didn't she tried wordnet (the tcl/tk browser wnb should
> be much more attractive than dict - in my opinion of course). The
> orphaned wordnet three years ago was the fact that I became a Debian
> developer!
Well, she likes logging into the console on the 486s. I don't think she
judges programs based on their attractiveness. That was the revealing
thing. It's not that the kids don't have X available to them, or that
there's nothing interesting installed on X ... yet, I find that 99% of
the time, she spends logged into a console session, either editing text
files with a text editor, or using one of the three aforementioned
programs.
> Just a crazy idea came up in a private discussion: What about writing a
> Harry-Potter-Adventure game. Ma be it would double the number of Linux
> installations really soon ;-). May be we could attract some clever game
> programmers and start a new free project.
Hm. That might well suit someone out there. As for me, I have no great
like for Harry Potter. But if you think it's worth pursuing, you could
suggest it on the kidsgames list.
> Yes. The lot of menu entries has to be cut down to a handy set for
> some groups of people and a tool to do this in a clever way would be
> very welcome.
Since this is not a kid-specific area of development, perhaps it should be
raised on debian-devel then. Perhaps we could attract some developers who
have already thought through this problem and have ideas/time to
contribute to our efforts?
Which brings us back to the packaging question. If Debian-Jr is going to
focus first on packaging new things, how do we pick-and-choose amongst all
of the possible things to package out there?
In the "programs to think with" area, I think I'd like to try my hand next
at "glogo":
http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/glogo/
as I have been looking for something to play with programming for the kids
and found ucblogo a bit difficult to interact with (primarily because the
xterm from which you control it and the drawing area don't both fit on the
screen at once ... glogo is much more compact).
Ben
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