On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:24:32PM -0700, nbs wrote: > Hello all! It's about time I signed up for this list. :) > > This is Bill Kendrick.
Bill, good to hear from you, glad you are still in the community. By any chance will you be at Linux World San Francisco? I will be presenting on Linux in Education, it will be session C51. > I've written quite a few games for Linux, a number > of which have found their way into the Debian Jr. project. > (Circus Linux!, Bug Squish, Defendguin, Mad Bomber, and so forth) > > I'm also lead programmer of "Tux, of Math Command", a Tux4Kids project. Well, I have screen shots of Tux of Math Command in my presentation for Linux World -:) > Anyway, I wanted to announce that I've begun work on a new for-kids > program. A friend of mine recently mentioned that he installed Debian Jr. > for his kids, and explained that many programs that get put in "Jr." > are really just regular Linux programs that kids might want to use. > > One example he gave was The Gimp. Gimp is one of my absolute favorite > programs (I've given talks on it at least three times, and will again > at a Web development users group this July). > But... I can't imagine some 3- or 4-year-old kid trying to figure it out > without getting frustrated. :) We actualy had 2nd grade students doing some amazing stuff with The GIMP at Corbett Elementary School. > > So... I've started writing "Tux Paint," a simplified (and kind of > constricted) painting program that uses libSDL. (To be released as GPL, > and probably under Tux4Kids.org) Great. You might want to look at gpaint and xpaint, both are also currently in use at Corbett along with Stickerbooks. > You can see screenshots of what I have so far (as well as the mockup > I whipped up just before, to give me an idea of how it should look) > on my website, here: > > http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/ > > > Right now, it's just a few screenshots - not even an HTML page. > I'll get to that later. It's already 8:30pm and I'm still at work. > I need to go home and eat. :) Looks great! > > Enjoy! Once it can _do_ something (e.g., let the user draw), I'll > release an alpha version for people to prod at. Let me know, and I will start playing with it from a user prospective. Harry > > -bill! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Harry McGregor, CEO, Co-Founder [EMAIL PROTECTED], (520) 661-7875 (CELL) Open Source Education Foundation, http://www.osef.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
