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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.
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.
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"