Re: Interesting project
2008/9/11 Meike Reichle <meike@debian.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently been contacted by a member of the Eleonore Digital
> Project. In a nutshell they are organising a project where groups of
> students all over Europe work together in creating an educational
> computer game that deals with Eleanor of Aquitaine[0]. Each team is
> assigned an episode or a certain aspect of Eleonore's life and they will
> research this, draft a concept and finally create their respective part
> or episode of the game. Doing this they will only work with free
> software, namely Debian as the Operating System, OOo, Blender etc ...
> A longer (and better) description of what they want to do is below, even
> more information can be found on their project description[1] or on the
> project site itself[2].
>
> The project approached me since they are trying to expand their network
> with regard to other groups with similar objectives. They are asking if
> it would be okay if they put our logo and a link on their website, which
> I guess would kind of express that they have our "blessing" or something
> like that. I personally think that would be okay. The project seems to
> be a Good Thing[tm] and I am actually quite happy that they picked
> Debian as their operating system. I think Debian being used in a school
> project is a nice example that it is in fact not as "user-unfriendly" as
> it is often claimed to be and being associated with something like that
> wouldn't be too bad.
>
> Opinions?
Hi,
I probably would be interested in helping with that project, if they
need any help. It sounds a very interesting project. I might be able
to move it here [1] quite easily if they want more high schools or
student groups involved.
I totally like the project and it would be nice to see the Debian logo
there, showing our support :)
[1] "here" is Asturias, North of Spain
I'm forwarding the mail to the Games Team mailing list.
Greetings,
Miry
> Best,
> Meike
>
>
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> Eleonore Digital
>
> The project Eleonore Digital aims at establishing a cooperation between
> secondary school students (aged 14-19) within the European Union.
>
> The project's final objective is an educational 3D software in the form
> of an educational game created by the students themselves. The content
> of this software evolves around Eleanor of Aquitaine's life which will
> be processed in an up-to-date and enthralling way by the students in
> several work stages.
>
> Therefore, the core purposes of the project - the demonstration of the
> exceptional role of women in power in European history, the
> manifestation of gender mainstreaming in the classroom and the
> emancipated and professional use of virtual space - are independently
> accomplished and simultaneously woven together into a virtual network by
> the individual groups of students. Subsequently, the finalized
> multilingual educational software will be made available via free download.
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine
> [0] http://www.p-o-s-t.org/index.en.php?action=eleonore
> [2] http://www.eleonore-digital.org
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