gperiodic website suggestions

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

I asked a friend to look at the gperiodic website last week, and she
got back to me. Thought it might generate some new ideas and get
people thinking about these topics.

--Roger (yeah, yeah, I still haven't read this weekend's mail yet)

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oh, I looked at the gperiodic website over the weekend...I thought
it was nice but wasn't sure if it knew what its audience was...
I guess it'd be useful for potential developers but less so for
people who might want to use it but are unfamiliar with the
conventions of open source software websites...I don't know, my
mom's a teacher and she teaches teaching for the primary grades
so I've seen a lot of educational and meta-educational materials
and the website doesn't look...classroom like
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I asked for suggestions on how to make it more classroom-like:
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I don't know, after I suggested it, it occurred to me that most
traditional classroom icons are kind of silly-looking especially
for software, apples, pencils, books, blackboards stuff like
that...still, I noticed that a lot of educational oriented
websites use it to signal "education" to people...
in terms of content, I thought it might be useful to spend some
space talking about how it might be used in a classroom
environment (I don't remember if this is done at all...maybe
one of the educators on the list could help with this...)
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