On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:57:52PM -0600, Pat Mahoney wrote: > This a forward from Georg, author of Brave-GNU-World. He seems > intersted in doing a write up of debian-jr. Any help answering the > questions is appreciated. > > [snip] > > Hi Pat! > > || On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:52:07 -0600 > || Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > pm> Hello Georg. You may remember me; I asked you to do a write up > pm> on Pliant for Brave-GNU-World. > > Yeah. I needed to think about it but the name sounded familiar. > > pm> Once again I thank you. I have another topic that is interesting > pm> to me and I hope you will consider doing a write up of it. > > It is indeed interesting. The normal way would be to fill out the BGW > standard questions (appended below) and mail them to me... > > pm> Thanks. And keep up the good work on Brave-GNU-World. > > Thanks. I'm trying. ,-) > > [snip] > > Regards, > Georg > > > > Content-Description: The 'Brave GNU World' standard questions everyone gets > to fill out > Brave GNU World standard questions: > ----------------------------------- > > * What is it?
Well, for starters, it trys to package software for debian that would be of interest to children. > > * Who would use it? Children and parents of children. Anyone interested in such software. Hopefully it will make debian more desireable for schools to install. > > * Why would they use it instead of similar projects? It builds on the power and strength of the existing debian distribution. > > * Special features/strengths? We will have a cool logo ;-) > > * Special problems? > > * Who is working on it? Started by Ben Armstrong, various debian develepors help (<out-of-the-side-of-my-mouth>/me thinks it's about time to put in that developer application</ootsomm>) > > * Plans for the close and distant future? Close future: make a list of packaged software already in debian. > > * Do you need help? If so: of what kind? Need this question really be asked? :) Um... Packaging any nice children's software... > > * Interesting/fun stories that might juice up the story? > > * Website/FTP addresses? http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/ > > * License?! Hopefully DFSG Free. Assorted, per package basis. > > * Standard documents to read in this context? > > * Anything you would like to see mentioned? > > * Answer to a question I forgot? > > NOTE: > Everything you want me to read should be attached to the > mail, because very often I will take my mail with me and read it > where I don't have access to the net. > > > -- > Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > the monthly GNU forum in English, German, > French, Spanish and Japanese. Check it out > at http://brave-gnu-world.org/ > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > [snip] -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein
