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Re: [kidsgames] first_math
Hello Doug,
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Doug Loss wrote:
-->Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:25:02 -0500
-->From: Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>
-->Reply-To: kidsgames@smluc.org
-->To: kidsgames@smluc.org
-->Subject: Re: [kidsgames] first_math
-->
-->jeff@smluc.org wrote:
-->>
-->> Would you like this to become one of the first kidsgames projects or
-->> maintain it separately?
-->>
-->> We have much to hash out on exactly how kidsgames will be related to
-->> existing projects, and even projects that are spawned from the kidsgames
-->> project.
-->>
-->> I think it is perfectly acceptable to have both projects maintained
-->> directly in the kidsgames cvs and those that are only linked to from
-->> kidsgames. Any comments on this from anybody?
-->>
-->I humbly recommend that you look at the basic organization of SEUL/edu,
-->which I think works pretty well.
Alright.
--> If someone has a project they want to
-->have listed as a "SEUL/edu-supported" project and it meets our
-->qualifications,
Ok how do we determine what "kidsgames" qualifications ARE? Any comments?
We should have a document (probably on the either source forge or the
official site at smluc.org/SIA/kidsgames/ or both) that indicates what
these criteria would be. Obviously, since, cvs, webspace and all these
other services are offered via other projects, kidsgames I think needs to
be able to offer something either more or different then those things.
Other than this mailing list and the discussions and projects/applications
spawning from said discussions occuring here I haven't thought of anything
that kidsgames as on overall project has to offer to either developer's or
seekers of kidsgames to run.
--> we put a link to their project on our projects page. If
-->they want to include it in our CVS that's fine; if not, that's fine
-->too.
Sounds like a good policy, I would really suggest looking into the cvs
capabilities for linking trees, as it would make things easier to get to
for those who aren't part of whatever system (sourceforge) the application
is actually stored at.
--> SEUL offers lots of services to many different projects, and we
-->include all the projects listed on the SEUL/edu projects page in the
-->offers. Some take us up on them, some don't. We're not looking to
-->control these various projects but to encourage them and offer a "round
-->table" site where people working on and interested in various aspects of
-->Linux in education can gather and talk, plan, and help each other.
-->
A listing of projects relating to Kids Games may be something that
kidsgames would be able to offer, i.e. a list of educational games that
are DFSG compliant, but I'm not sure. Linuxforkids has a good start on
this I think, although it seems to include non DFSG compliant
applications.
Basically I want the project to facilitate the creation of, coding of, and
mainetence of kids games. It is prefered that these kids games are
educational in nature. This project however isn't about just me, so I
want to know what other's want this project to be.
It seems that it would be good for kidsgames to be an entry in the seul
educational "table", so that people interested in the above goals can
come to this project via the seul website. It also seems that it would be
good to have other points of entry to this project (one of them being
sourceforge)
-->You may have noticed that we've started writing weekly reports on Linux
-->in education,
Yes I have. GREAT JOB!
--> which get linked to by Linux Weekly News and LinuxToday.
-->It might be worthwhile for kidsgames to work on regular KidsGames
-->reports to submit to these sites too.
I have been thinking about this, as I also think that it is a good idea...
I've been somewhat hesitant to do one though because I know that I'm a
pretty inconsistent individual when it comes to time based constraints.
I'm just not sure I can do it justice, and I don't want the entire project
judged as somehow bad, just because I failed to get a weekly report out...
--> If there's not enough volume for
-->a weekly report, some other period ought to be fine, so long as they're
-->regular.
Anybody think they can handle a regular kidsgames report?
--> If someone wants to do this, I'll be happy to go on at length
-->about how we decide what to put in our weekly reports.
ok.
--> You can then
-->either do something similar or something opposite, depending on how bad
-->you think our reports really are :-).
-->
-->
I've only glanced at them, but I think they are fine :)
--
Jeff Waddell
jeff@smluc.org
Kids Games Project Coordinator
main website at http://smluc.org/SIA/kidsgames/
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