Re: New member

["Chris E." <games@linuxforkids.com>]

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.

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.

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.

Chris.

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