A couple more thoughts/clarifications: by "without stepping on any toes" I mean "to compliment the work of Sugarlabs without overlap".
Also, rather than adopt what I've proposed, I would just ask to do whatever you can to facilitate a new approach to parenting/education and a new approach to edu-floss developer incentivization. It's risk-free and could make money in a way consistent with FOSS values. Okay, I will self-silence unless you would like to continue, which I hope you do. Thanks, Charles On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:04 PM, C. Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Walter & All, > > I do understand your point about most Sugar apps leaning towards > open-ended construction. With respect to that, I have successfully > incorporated a few Sugarizer apps by simply establishing some threshold at > which credits are awarded ... including Gears, Clocks, ABCDerium and my own > open-ended app/contribution ColorMyWorld. So I think it can be made > relatively simple, but even that is not my purpose for writing to you. > > I'm trying to achieve two specific things 1) create an effective parenting > / teaching tool, and 2) create incentive to stimulate new free edu-software > development. > > If Sugar/Sugarizer contributors (past, present & future) can make a few > bucks for their work, as well as another channel to publicize their work, > then it should only serve to stimulate new innovation and development. > > I'm not competition, but I drool over your community, who are the > "most-likely-to-participate-in-free-edu-software-development" people in > the world, since they already are. I'm trying to make it a more viable > pastime without stepping on any toes. > > Regards, > -Charles > > Review published today 3/16/18 > <https://ricmerrifield.com/2018/03/16/great-idea-make-your-kids-earn-their-internet-time-netdispenser/> > NetDispenser Project Website <http://netdispenser.github.io> > > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:44 PM C. Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear Folks, >>> >>> Here >>> <https://collaborate.teachersguild.org/challenge/digital-citizenship/ideate/credit-meter-assisted-learning> >>> is a more complete description of the grass-roots project which I proposed >>> to sugar-labs a couple months ago. I believe that it can stimulate >>> development of free education software and provide "job opportunities" and >>> incentive for young and old programmers, alike. Perhaps "busking >>> opportunities" would be a more appropriate term :) >>> >> >> Charles, >> >> Many, if not most Sugar activities are not focused on completion of >> specific tasks, rather that are oriented around open-ended construction. >> That said, I am sure one could layer tasks on top of many activities, e.g., >> Turtle Confusion overlaid on top of Turtle Blocks. As far as how we'd >> integrate these into the system you are building, I don't have any idea. >> >> regards. >> >> -walter >> >>> >>> -Charles >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >> > >
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