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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?

We should really decide whether the KidsGames site is to hold
actual games, pointers to games or just resources for games
writers.  (Or some combination of the above).

* I think there was ONCE a case for being a place where the
  actual games are stored because some games writers would
  benefit from the support of a CVS server, mailing lists,
  free web access, etc.

  However, anyone can create a brand new site on SourceForge
  that has all those good things in about 10 minutes flat -
  and it'll be up and running within 24 hours. That being
  the case, I don't see that tying them all together into
  one huge mega-site really buys us much.  You'd also create
  a huge number of developers with the need for write-access
  to the site - which can easily lead to security problems.

  I'll be creating individual sites for each of my games
  from now on - I wouldn't see any benefit to putting my
  game on the kidsgames site rather than just having the
  kidsgames site link to mine.

* We could be a site containing pointers to games (with
  reviews, advice to parents and such like) would be a useful
  service (something akin to http://happypenguin.org - but
  with a focus on kids games).  HappyPenguin is a GREAT
  service - and I'd love to see a clone of that with
  age-ratings and catagories for Edutainment, Kid-friendly
  Games, Parenting Software (like my Bank of Daddy program),
  School-appropriate software, etc.

* Being a site with resources for games developers (like
  the mega-word-list database) would be useful too.

Those are very different kinds of services - possibly
having contradictory goals.

If you are claiming to help authors of games, then
publishing very negative reviews of an unsuitable game
thats being written by one of our members would be
hard to do objectively.

Would you write a really negative review of a game
written by someone who posts to this list regularly?

Developers and reviewers should be different people,
so kidsgames needs to be EITHER a collect-and-review
site OR a developers resource/forum.  It can't be
both IMHO.

Perhaps this is where the split should be between
kidsgames and SEUL/edu?

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