Latest revision as of 17:47, 30 September 2011

Fedora For Kids

Fedora For Kids is a Remix as of now (might be a spin in future) which consists of tools and applications suitable for children of age group 8-15{class 2 to class 9}. We vision for a more suitable environment to encourage kids to understand Linux and Fedora in a better and easy way and to also aid teachers while doing the same.

Packages To Be Included

Please only add "Fedora For Kids" packages here!
This is a list of already packaged applications suitable for kids.

Package Name	Brief Description	Status
tuxpaint	A simple drawing and colouring program for kids
GCompris	got everything you’d want, from reading practice, to science, algebra, drawing, geography quiz and even chess
TuxMath	game requiring quick thinking and a bit of math skill.
Child's Play	Sound Association and several other activities
GBrainy	Games that challenge your logic, verbal, calculation and memory abilities.	Pulls mono, do we need this?
anki	Anki helps teachers to ask quizzes. Can be used to create flashcard like decks. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dI2VyLDWw
glglobe	shows nice globe that can be rotated. It shows countries and cities
tuxtype2	Nice typing tutor

Applications To Be Packaged

Please only add "Fedora For Kids" applications here!
This is the list of unpackaged applications suitable for kids. If you are a packager and have time to spare, please pick one of these to package.

Also look at page dedicated to Apps. This page holds info such as the default applications, the default desktop environment and the rest.

We've moved this section to the Package Sprint. Hopefully, there will be a lot of packages.

Volunteers

No.	Name	Comments
1	Aditya Patawari	Packaging, reviews and general coordination
2	Hiemanshu Sharma
3	Arun SAG	Packaging new apps and creation service packs
4	Ankur Sinha	Packaging new apps and helping new packagers
5	Narendra Sisodiya
6	Saurabh Sharma
7	Suchakra	GUI Customization, Artwork, Testing
8	Arun Prakash
9	Luke Martinez	Documentation, Testing. asmartgoat@fedoraproject.org (i dont like being called a kid btw -_- :D)
10	Satyaakam Goswami
11	Prabin Kumar Datta
12	Lakshmi Narasimhan T V	Packaging, reviews and testing
13	Harsh Verma

Artwork

We found some artwork related to an Education-SIG on taticas page here.
The first wallpaper is here
- It uses education-sky.svg by Tatica and Cartoon Kids by Leogg
Some Panda artwork is available at Emichan's page too.

Useful Links

TODO

Plan out meetings to be held at regular internals
Choose a nice name for the spin
Create a second disc with service packs with anything extra (cant be put into spins)
Docs on how to use the second disc
Look for ebooks in public domain. Create a few, if required, which should appeal the kids. Use animation/graphics to make it interesting. See this thread
Talk to Design team to create a few wallpapers and themes more suitable for kids. See this thread
Organize a packaging sprint, preferably before foss.in.
look into XFCE, KDE, Gnome and Sugar to find a suitable environment.
Look at
```
 yum groupinfo "Educational Software" 
```

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 | Child's Play  || Sound Association and several other activities ||
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+| GBrainy || Games that challenge your logic, verbal, calculation and memory abilities. || Pulls mono, do we need this?
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+| anki || Anki helps teachers to ask quizzes. Can be used to create flashcard like decks. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dI2VyLDWw ||
+|-
+| glglobe || shows nice globe that can be rotated. It shows countries and cities ||
+|-
+| tuxtype2 || Nice typing tutor ||
 |}
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 {{admon/important|Please only add "Fedora For Kids" applications here!|This is the list of unpackaged applications suitable for kids. If you are a packager and have time to spare, please pick one of these to package.}}
-Also look at [[FedoraForKids/Apps]].
+Also look at [[FedoraForKids/Apps | page dedicated to Apps]]. This page holds info such as the default applications, the default desktop environment and the rest.
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+We've moved this section to the [[FedoraForKids/Package_Sprint | Package Sprint]]. Hopefully, there will be a lot of packages.
-|- style=" color: #fff; background-color: #3074c2;" tablewidth="100%"
-|-
-! Application Name !! Brief Description !! Status !! Maintainer !! Spec File
-|-
-| [http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~gimenez/data/fdls/laby-0.6.2.tar.gz laby]  || laby is a small program to learn how to program with ants and spider webs. ||In progress : [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ocaml-devel/2010-October/001596.html post to ocaml ML]  || [[AnkurSinha]] || [http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/laby/laby.spec incomplete spec]
-|-
-| [http://coulon.publi.free.fr/openeuclide/index.php?inframe=download OpenEuclide]  || A program for drawing out 2D figures. || Done || [[User:Sagarun|Arun SAG]] || [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/openeuclide COMPLETED]
-|-
-| [http://new.asymptopia.org/staticpages/index.php?page=TuxWordSmith TuxWordSmith]  || A multi-lingual scrabble program. || In progress || [[User:Adimania|Aditya Patawari]] ||
-|-
-|}
 ==Volunteers==
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 |''7''||''[[User:Suchakra|Suchakra]]''|| GUI Customization, Artwork, Testing
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+|''8''||''[[User:Arunprakash|Arun Prakash]]'' ||
+|-
+|''9''||''[[User:asmartgoat|Luke Martinez]]'' || Documentation, Testing. asmartgoat@fedoraproject.org (i dont like being called a kid btw -_- :D)
+|-
+|''10''||''[[User:Satyaakam|Satyaakam Goswami]]'' ||
+|-
+|''11''||''[[User:prabindatta|Prabin Kumar Datta]]'' ||
+|-
+|''12''||''[[User:narasim|Lakshmi Narasimhan T V]]'' ||  Packaging, reviews and testing
+|-
+|''13''||''[[User:yevlempy|Harsh Verma]]'' ||
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 |}
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 ==Useful Links==
-* [http://schoolos.org/ http://schoolos.org/]
+* [http://schoolos.org/ School OS]
+* [http://uberstudent.org/ Uber Student]
 * [http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#service-pack PackageKit FAQ : Service Packs]

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