Re: [seul-edu] Cooperation

[Philippe Ambon <pambon@mandrakesoft.com>]

This my second mail on seul but I think we could perhaps help a little.
As you may know People from seul.org were on our stand during L.W. in
NY. My job at Mandrake is actually dedicated to propose a distro to the
French State Educational Minister. We are not exactly competing with a
debian Jr project cause our goal is more orientated to kids aged 10+.
Eventhough it is in the interest of Linux in general to make it
available with the most user friendly graphical interface as possible.
Kids are probably the most reactive people to a graphical interface. If
it works with them it means that anyone can do it (I hope you don't
think I take kids for idiots, but I think that they don't understand how
the hardware works but have a great intuition and yes this is what we're
all looking for).
In conclusion I would say that Kids are the solution. 
Concerning how to reach KDE I know that we have some developpers at
Mandrake working for KDE. I could perhaps put you in contact each other?
That's it for today
CU

Doug Loss a écrit :
> 
> Fredrik Liljegren wrote:
> >
> > Now, debian are getting to this.  I thought maybe we should contact other
> > distributions as well and se if they're up to it.  How do you think we shall
> > approach them?
> >
> Good question.  Let's think about this and discuss it.  And we shouldn't
> limit ourselves to distros, either.  Let's try to draw the Windomaker,
> AfterStep, GNOME, KDE, etc. folks into providing things intended for
> kids too.
> 
> --
> Doug Loss                 Even if you're on the right track,
> Data Network Coordinator  you'll get run over if you just
> Bloomsburg University     sit there.
> dloss@bloomu.edu                Will Rogers

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