Re: gperiodic website suggestions

[Malonowa <malonowa@wanadoo.fr>]

Roger Dingledine wrote:

> 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)
>
> ---
> 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
> ---
> I asked for suggestions on how to make it more classroom-like:
> ---
> 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...)
> ---

 It's all in the clever use of primary colours and dark outlines!

Roman.