How can I connect Linux with Teenagers?

[Duda Nogueira]

Hello Sanjay!

That's a very good initiative! Congratulations!

Try to show them the tons of software that's available in just a few clicks
and how the community is organized to make them better all the time. And,
the basics: No Malwares, Better CPU use (as you don't waste money and
processor with anti-malwares), and other facilities that we all know.

On the games side, (IMHO) it will certainly be the main factor that will
bring the kids into the open source world. I started a project to translate
our brazilian (yes! i'm a proud brazilian!) Ubuntu Games Project. They'll
love to know that they can have all the listed games for free and with a
very easy installation.

You can find at http://www.ubuntugames.org
or directly on the translated version in
http://www.ubuntugames.org/en/UbuntuGames


Its not 100% translated (its about 50%), but i'm personally working on it
(we have a list of more that 100 games!!!). I hope to finish everything and
start an international community around it for adding and updating content
in January, when I'll move to Canada for 3 month of hard English study (in
Vancouver) and another 3 months of... who knows! Work? :)

As it is right now, there are only three or four brazilian ubunteros working
on it.

I'm planning to internationalize all the process and have the english
language as the mainstream version. This will be also a very good
opportunity to exercise my English habilities (as you can see, my english
isn't perfect! :))

If i can help, just let me know!!

See you and congratulations once more!


2007/10/21, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>:
>
> I agree that demonstrating the desktop is probably where you're going to
> get any interest at all. Compiz/Beryl/XGL is definitely something that makes
> the desktop interesting to use. Under Synaptic, there are a lot of games,
> plus other software items. One of the myths around Linux was that it was
> difficult to use and geared towards techies so showing off the desktop and
> some of the cool applications that come with Ubuntu in Synaptic should at
> least turn some heads.
>
> Then there's the issue of surfing the web. Unfortunately, there are some
> web sites (e.g. MSN gaming zone) that will only play under Internet
> Explorer. But then again, there are sites like Yahoo!'s game zone that's
> fair to Firefox and Opera. Chatting online with friends can be achieved
> through Gaim/Pidgin or going to safe multiplayer sites.
>
> One good thing with Open Source is that most applications for Linux also
> have Windows versions. Some of my favourite ones do. So for my die hard
> Windows friends, at least I can get them playing with Open Source
> applications on their Windows PCs to start with. At least it's a step in the
> right direction.
>
> Andrew Mathenge
>
> On 10/21/07, Cody A.W. Somerville <cody-somerville at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> >  I've always found that demonstrating the desktop is very attractive -
> > especially with XGL fun. Other key hitters is no viruses or spyware.
> > Unfortunately, not being able to play their favorite game is usually a deal
> > breaker.
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >
> > Cody A.W. Somerville
> >
> > On 10/21/07, Sanjay Sodhi < sanjay.sodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there.
> > > I've recently started gathering some of the kids in my school one day
> > > a week after school, to get them interested in Linux. I've got a few people
> > > who are genuinely interested in coming down regularly, but I've started to
> > > run into the problem of attracting new people.
> > >
> > > I mean, there are people who will consider it, and there are people
> > > who won't. Both crowds tend to get scared off quite quickly, and that's a
> > > huge obstacle to recruitment. I've been trying to think of ways to dispel
> > > the usual myths and to get people coming down.
> > >
> > > I think a lot of it is wow-factor, but people don't give me the time
> > > to wow them!
> > >
> > > Currently, my list of things to do is largely limited to talking to
> > > the Computer Science classes and showing off
> > > Beryl/Compiz/Fusion/XGL/whatever the hell it is now/ (I'd much rather have a
> > > professional with solid experience come in...if anyone is interested, I'd be
> > > exceedingly glad to have you)
> > >
> > > Once I've got Linux installed on PCs (I'm talking to the
> > > Administration about it at the moment), I think people will be more open to
> > > the idea, especially if they can log on and give it a go whenever.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
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