Re: Live CD as a focal point for reviving Jr development

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

Marcela,

Are you still interested in Debian Jr.?  We have made some good progress on
making a live CD recently, so if you're still interested in helping out,
please try out the test CD images and post to the list and/or drop by the
#debian-jr irc channel at irc.oftc.net.

Ben

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:53:47 -0300
Marcela Tiznado <mtiznado@linux.org.ar> wrote:

> Hi all! I'm new in all this, I have some ideas that would like to 
> discuss with you all, and maybe add them on the new version of the live cd.
> 
> - Packages on age groups.
> I think packages should be on groups. I think this clasification would 
> be perfect to do it with kindergarden teachers so they know what average 
> kids need on each steps. When the parents creates the kid profile (that 
> would be nice to save it somehow) would show only the games according to 
> its age.
> 
> - Internet filter
> Would be nice to have some panel where the parents can configure the 
> livecd to conect to internet or not. Have a dansguardian or something to 
> filter contents.
> 
> - Colorful, nice, etc. Clear big icons for little kids.
> 
> If this means toooo many info....is possible to do a DVDlive?
> 
> Would be nice to have an alioth project, with a wiki to put to-do 
> things, screenshots, etc etc etc .. Our own alioth project would be nice.
> 
> Then the same packages included on the live cd might also packaged as 
> debian packages, for example having junior-3yearsold.deb
> 
> Thats all till now :)
> ASCIIGirl
> 
> 
> Harry McGregor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:58 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > 
> >>On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:14 -0500, Sam Hart wrote:
> >>
> >>>Actually... Tux4Kids a while ago was working with OSEF to make something
> >>>called "Tux Junior" which was to be a Live CD based upon Debian Jr. We
> >>>had something that worked very nicely that was based on an older Knoppix
> >>>or Morphix release (I forget which).
> > 
> > 
> > It was Knoppix 3.3 based.  I did the remaster myself.  We also had 5000
> > of the CDs pressed and gave them to teachers etc.
> >  
> > 
> >>>One thing we had in the works was a custom theme for IceWM, which was
> >>>going to be the window manager we were going to use for the CD (it's
> >>>lightweight, can be flashy, and yet does limit quite a bit of the
> >>>confusing dialogs that other larger WMs/DEs have).
> > 
> > 
> > One of the other goals for V3 of the CD was to have the face browser
> > login screen, and have a "pre/kinder" "1st/2nd/3rd grade" "4th/5th
> > grade" "middle school" "high school" "parent/teacher" and "everything"
> > login.
> > 
> > One the biggest complaints we got is that the CD had too much stuff, and
> > trying to navigate programs you don't know is not easy, etc.  By
> > breaking it up into a custom menu/login for each we could minimize the
> > list.
> > 
> > 
> >>>Tux4Kids has been a "sleeping" project for a while as I have been
> >>>extremely busy, but I am starting things back up again.
> >>
> >>That's great news.  If we can turn Tux Junior into something that tracks
> >>current Debian development, that will suit our needs nicely.
> >>
> >>Perhaps we could meet & revive that OSEF project?  I don't even know if
> >>the osef-board mailing list is alive anymore.
> > 
> > 
> > Don't know either...  OSEF has been sleeping as well.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 			Harry
> > 
> > 
> >>Ben
> >>
> >>
> 
> 


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