I've been playing with this idea a bit, and was wondering if I could get some input on it. As many of you probably already know, Esperanto is a language designed for International communications. It is designed to be easy to learn, while powerful enough to allow anyone to describe what they mean.
I believe that finding a common language between each other as a people is a great and important step in finding common unity with people who have different cultures. As such wouldn't it be a great idea to include some tools to help facilitate young folks learning an international language, say Esperanto? Perhaps this is not the best language (although it's reported 2,000,000+ users might disagree) if not, let's search an alternative. Perhaps some games should be written, or old ones packaged for Debian. Just throwing some ideas around. I'm not a programmer really (taking programming in school starting tommorow, but don't really have any solid skills yet) but could probably develop or help develop some sort of Python (or C# in about a year) based games for learning Esperanto. I have decided to dedicate all my free time to my personal studies, and Debian-NP as well as Debian-JR, hopefully I can find my place somewhere among these ranks of excellent programmers and skilled, unpaid, professionals. On that note, many thanks to the thousands of people involved with projects like this, and other Open Source software movements, you are truly shaping the world (just look at the rising popularity of Linux in general). As a side note, it would be quite beneficial to have an instant messenger of sorts, allowing parents to permit their children to message and recieve messages from specific people that have been "pre-approved". Perhaps this dwelves too much into the negative aspect of "restriction" vs. "education" but the rising amounts of adults on the net seeking innocent children is perhaps worth a little restrictions. As well I agree that youth should be encouraged to experiment and "push the buttons" on their systems, perhaps some type of account could be setup, or virtual server, that would allow youth to experiment with "remote" systems so that actual physical systems can remain intact. Any youth able to effectively use knowledge gained from this system to break into their own system, should be quite adept to avoid messing it up, and even if they do it is beyond the scope of Debian-JR as i've seen it.
