Re: [ANN] Debian-Grandfathers project
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:02:00PM +0700, Robert Hilliard wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm proud to announce a new born flavour of the Custom Debian Distributions
> > effort: Debian-Grandfathers. In analogy to the Debian-Junior project that
> > has the goal to adopt Debian for the needs of childrean we are now heading
> > into the other direction. Debian-Grandfathers is heading at users with the
> > following features:
> >
> > - at least 40 years old
> > - at least one grown up child to be a "potential grandfather"
> > - forget your password once a month
> > - pass the new grandfather queue
> >
> > Technically we try to implement the following changes:
> >
> > - slow down the mouse in X
> > - xmag is per default activated
> > - reduce number of windows on screen to one
> > - if sound enabled than maximum volume
>
> I am 81 years old, and have one grandchild.
>
> I find your post highly offensive.
>
> Bob
>
> Robert D. Hilliard
> hilliard@debian.org
Instead of using the term 'grandfather' maybe reframe it as a project to
meet a specific need. Like:
A project for someone who has some dexterity, auditory, memory and
vision problems, Basically it may fall under 'accessibilty' in some
aspects.
hope that explains,
K
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