Re: Live CD as a focal point for reviving Jr development

Hi all! I'm new in all this, I have some ideas that would like to 
discuss with you all, and maybe add them on the new version of the live cd.

- Packages on age groups.
I think packages should be on groups. I think this clasification would 
be perfect to do it with kindergarden teachers so they know what average 
kids need on each steps. When the parents creates the kid profile (that 
would be nice to save it somehow) would show only the games according to 
its age.

- Internet filter
Would be nice to have some panel where the parents can configure the 
livecd to conect to internet or not. Have a dansguardian or something to 
filter contents.

- Colorful, nice, etc. Clear big icons for little kids.

If this means toooo many info....is possible to do a DVDlive?

Would be nice to have an alioth project, with a wiki to put to-do 
things, screenshots, etc etc etc .. Our own alioth project would be nice.

Then the same packages included on the live cd might also packaged as 
debian packages, for example having junior-3yearsold.deb

Thats all till now :)
ASCIIGirl


Harry McGregor wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:58 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:14 -0500, Sam Hart wrote:
>>
>>>Actually... Tux4Kids a while ago was working with OSEF to make something
>>>called "Tux Junior" which was to be a Live CD based upon Debian Jr. We
>>>had something that worked very nicely that was based on an older Knoppix
>>>or Morphix release (I forget which).
> 
> 
> It was Knoppix 3.3 based.  I did the remaster myself.  We also had 5000
> of the CDs pressed and gave them to teachers etc.
>  
> 
>>>One thing we had in the works was a custom theme for IceWM, which was
>>>going to be the window manager we were going to use for the CD (it's
>>>lightweight, can be flashy, and yet does limit quite a bit of the
>>>confusing dialogs that other larger WMs/DEs have).
> 
> 
> One of the other goals for V3 of the CD was to have the face browser
> login screen, and have a "pre/kinder" "1st/2nd/3rd grade" "4th/5th
> grade" "middle school" "high school" "parent/teacher" and "everything"
> login.
> 
> One the biggest complaints we got is that the CD had too much stuff, and
> trying to navigate programs you don't know is not easy, etc.  By
> breaking it up into a custom menu/login for each we could minimize the
> list.
> 
> 
>>>Tux4Kids has been a "sleeping" project for a while as I have been
>>>extremely busy, but I am starting things back up again.
>>
>>That's great news.  If we can turn Tux Junior into something that tracks
>>current Debian development, that will suit our needs nicely.
>>
>>Perhaps we could meet & revive that OSEF project?  I don't even know if
>>the osef-board mailing list is alive anymore.
> 
> 
> Don't know either...  OSEF has been sleeping as well.
> 
> 
> 
> 			Harry
> 
> 
>>Ben
>>
>>