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Re: New member



On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Chris E. wrote:

> thudson@cygnus.com wrote:
> 
> > I joined this list after the announcement on linuxtoday.
> > I was a father of two until Saturday night, when my wife
> > gave birth to our third child, a beautiful baby girl.
> >
> 
> Congratulations !
> How do you get time to send email ?
> 
> >  I think
> > that some elements of the current state of GUIs are not
> > well suited to new users and children. Things like
> > double-clicks, etc. I've often thought of a complete
> > desktop environment geared more towards children.
> 
> One of the far-off goals of LinuxForKids is a LFK distribution. It would
> have a simple GUI, some simple tools for parents and teachers to setup
> lessons and track progress,  and of course lots of "edutainement"
> software as Doug mentioned.
> 

This sounds like a worth goal, especially in light of many educator's
difficulty with computers (and lack of time to play with them) in general.

> Other people are working on some similar things. I know of the
> OpenClassroom project, and I just looked a the SEUL project. They are
> also putting Linux in the classroom in France and Mexico.
> 

I believe you will find that linux is making it into Classroom's all over
the world... ;)

> But as I said earlier, all of this information is hard to find, which
> why I am trying to get everything under one roof. Even if no
> distribution comes out of it, I'll still feel like I contributed a
> little bit to the Linux movement by helping others find the information
> more easily.
> 

Great!

> Chris.

Sincerely,

Jeff Waddell
jeff@smluc.org


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