Re: Children's Internet Gateway Project; School Intranet Project

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Jan Smith

[email protected] wrote:
> Dear Everyone,
> 
> (sorry if it's a copy)
> 
> I am writing to introduce you to the Children's Internet Gateway Project 
> (www.opensourcearmenia.com/gateway).   Our goal is to create a Web portal for 
> kids by using open-source tools.  A number of portals for kids exist out 
> there.  But we want something 
> a) that is open-source; 
> b) that kids can participate in making; 
> c) that will be available in Armenian, too (and yes, most of us are 
> Armenians :)).
> 
> We'd like that portal to be a fun place, and one of the things we're hoping 
> to accomplish is to build a game-making environment, using Python.  Does 
> anybody know if there are efforts in that direction (i.e. Python game-making 
> software)?
> 
> We are using Plone (and Zope, and Python) to build the portal.  We have 
> produced (and are continuing work on) an Armenian localization for Plone 
> (test site at http://spi.zoper.com/tziatzan) as a part of this effort.  
> 
> Another thing we're doing is making a prototypical school intranet (for 
> schools in Armenia, again) -- and lobbying with the various schools/NGOs/the 
> government  (not all schools have computers, let alone a computer network) to 
> try these out.  If anyone has recommendations about nice educational intranet 
> portals, we'd love to hear them.  (I have wound a few school and college 
> sites that use Plone -- even UCL! -- most agreeable.)
> 
> This project received some funding from the Open Source Armenia, and is 
> staffed by volunteer effort.  There are kids and adults collaborating on this 
> (online); one project team is located in the small town of Spitak, Armenia 
> (www.spitux.org), and then there are some people in the capital of Armenia, 
> and finally, a few of us here in Boston.
> 
> We'd be happy to hear from you -- if you'd like to help us out with any 
> comments or suggestions, or point us to your favorite kids' sites, or 
> features, or anything, really.  Write to us, or visit our forum at: 
> http://www.opensourcearmenia.com/Projects/gateway/forum
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> --
> Anoush Najarian
> 
> The SpiTux Project:
> http://www.spitux.org
> 2003 LinuxFund.org Grant
> Children's Internet Gateway Project
> http://opensourcearmenia.com/Projects/gateway
> Plone Armenian l10n Test Site
> http://spi.zoper.com/tziatzan
> TuxType Armenian Theme
> http://opensourcearmenia.com/Projects/Tuxtype
> 
> Email: [email protected]
> URL: 
> http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~najarian
> 
> 
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