Marcela, Are you still interested in Debian Jr.? We have made some good progress on making a live CD recently, so if you're still interested in helping out, please try out the test CD images and post to the list and/or drop by the #debian-jr irc channel at irc.oftc.net.
Ben On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:53:47 -0300 Marcela Tiznado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! I'm new in all this, I have some ideas that would like to > discuss with you all, and maybe add them on the new version of the live cd. > > - Packages on age groups. > I think packages should be on groups. I think this clasification would > be perfect to do it with kindergarden teachers so they know what average > kids need on each steps. When the parents creates the kid profile (that > would be nice to save it somehow) would show only the games according to > its age. > > - Internet filter > Would be nice to have some panel where the parents can configure the > livecd to conect to internet or not. Have a dansguardian or something to > filter contents. > > - Colorful, nice, etc. Clear big icons for little kids. > > If this means toooo many info....is possible to do a DVDlive? > > Would be nice to have an alioth project, with a wiki to put to-do > things, screenshots, etc etc etc .. Our own alioth project would be nice. > > Then the same packages included on the live cd might also packaged as > debian packages, for example having junior-3yearsold.deb > > Thats all till now :) > ASCIIGirl > > > Harry McGregor wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:58 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:14 -0500, Sam Hart wrote: > >> > >>>Actually... Tux4Kids a while ago was working with OSEF to make something > >>>called "Tux Junior" which was to be a Live CD based upon Debian Jr. We > >>>had something that worked very nicely that was based on an older Knoppix > >>>or Morphix release (I forget which). > > > > > > It was Knoppix 3.3 based. I did the remaster myself. We also had 5000 > > of the CDs pressed and gave them to teachers etc. > > > > > >>>One thing we had in the works was a custom theme for IceWM, which was > >>>going to be the window manager we were going to use for the CD (it's > >>>lightweight, can be flashy, and yet does limit quite a bit of the > >>>confusing dialogs that other larger WMs/DEs have). > > > > > > One of the other goals for V3 of the CD was to have the face browser > > login screen, and have a "pre/kinder" "1st/2nd/3rd grade" "4th/5th > > grade" "middle school" "high school" "parent/teacher" and "everything" > > login. > > > > One the biggest complaints we got is that the CD had too much stuff, and > > trying to navigate programs you don't know is not easy, etc. By > > breaking it up into a custom menu/login for each we could minimize the > > list. > > > > > >>>Tux4Kids has been a "sleeping" project for a while as I have been > >>>extremely busy, but I am starting things back up again. > >> > >>That's great news. If we can turn Tux Junior into something that tracks > >>current Debian development, that will suit our needs nicely. > >> > >>Perhaps we could meet & revive that OSEF project? I don't even know if > >>the osef-board mailing list is alive anymore. > > > > > > Don't know either... OSEF has been sleeping as well. > > > > > > > > Harry > > > > > >>Ben > >> > >> > > -- -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
