> by the >time children are nine, they are perfectly capable of navigating around >the "full" Debian menu so there is no need to cater to the nine-and-older >age range. >It also came up earlier regarding logos. There was some concern about >children over eight not wishing to identify with anything "childish".
This is an issue that has come up for my project too. For primary school choldren (age 5 to 11) we are concerned more with how easy is the interface. For high school (age 11 to 18) - or from 9 upwards, as you say - we can concentrate on the niceties of the package, the right apps etc. >So, although I am unwilling to abandon our original mandate to reach "children aged 1 to 99" I must concede that for practical reasons our "first product" needs to be focused on age eight and under. That is not >to say that older children won't also make use of or appreciate the work >that goes into this initial effort. But our *primary* audience will be >this age range. Of course you can have a package which assumes this by default but gives you other configuration options - either when you install it, or when you log in. > And after that, I'm not sure what to do for teens ... it >seems that by this age, making a "version of Debian" for them would not be >the primary work. Not being a teen or parent of a teen, I'm having a >harder time visualizing what "Debian for teens" would actually be. and when you are a parent of a teen you still won't know what they want ;-) >Once we have settled who our primary audience is, I expect it will be >easier for us to produce something that is both coherent and limited >enough in scope to be achievable in a reasonable period of time. I agree. There is nothing to stop this being adapted for other age groups at any time along the way, and we do need a clear focus. Richard Smedley www.sc.lug.org.uk/projects/schools.html it's not a .sig, just the last line of the message. -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com
