Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: Debian-kids goals (draft)]: cartoon characters

[Justin Zeigler <zqc@zqc.com>]

how about charecters from books +95 yrs old like any of the
wonderful charecters from Alice in Wonderland and Thru the 
Looking Glass?

Justin Zeigler (zqc@zqc.com)

Yes my Speel chacker is brok


Thomas Tempé wrote:
> 
> A lot of people wrote:
> 
> *> > > Making Debian desirable to kids
> *> > > -------------------------------
> *> > > The primary goal of the debian-kids project is to make Debian an
> OS our
> *> > > kids *want* to run.  This involves some sensitivity to the needs
> of kids
> *> >
> *>
> *> I believe a cute desktop with their favorite characters and a few
> icons that
> *> launch games/apps that they like is what kids want. They certainly
> don't care
> *> about what is running the show.  They just want it to work every
> time.
> *>
> 
> Here's where it hurts: favorite characters are commercial(tm), and I
> don't think Disney(c) would give his success characters out for nothing,
> just for the sake of making the world a little better.
> 
> Are there any Free cartoon characters out there? (I know this deviates
> from the threat, but I always felt that cultural milestones like cartoon
> characters were one of the things you could not build a Free world
> without.)
> 
> The thing is not about having a Free drawing of a potential cartoon
> hero, but to have a Free character around which a culture has been
> built. Disney characters would not sell without the movies to back them
> up.
> 
> One good thing is that we already have Tux, the herring-eating pinguin.
> Games are building up around him (quest for the lost herring, Pingus,
> and probably more). Plus the whole geek culture and commercial doing
> around Linux have a lot of pinguins in them. Maybe we could keep in mind
> that having other "Tux' friends" around would make for a potential set
> of Free "favorite characters" to build a Free culture around.
> First, let's settle a few things around Tux (like herrings, his living
> place, and whatever else), then maybe we can introduce other characters,
> like the BSD devil (Huug, why did they choose a devil?) and why not the
> Gnome gnome, the FSF GNU, or even Tux's friend Linus? (Yeah! And the
> next thing you know, he'll be singing songs on kid's saturnday morning
> shows on TV!:)
> 
> This might well bring us something that altrough seemingly neglectable,
> could make the environment more attractive: cultural coherence. This is
> what all corporate ... bodies trying buy themselves children have been
> doing to date, ranging from McDonalds* to Disney*.
> 
> (* huh property of their respective owners)
> 
> Ok, this should probably lead us to little work by itself (art work?),
> but it may come up as an underlying idea, that could well help extend
> the Free (software) philosophy well beyond software.
> 
> 'hope this helps...
> 
> Thomas Tempé
> 
> --
> Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology.
>                 -- R. S. Barton
> 
> PS: Oh, and the Pope's picture! He hasn't been copyrighted yet, right?