[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu4girls projetc

[Caroline Ford]

Edubuntu has a lot of this - including tuxpaint which does that. Our aim
is to be very child friendly.

Caroline

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 10:32 -0400, Meg Kurdziolek wrote:
> When I was a kid, I really liked computer games. Some of them were
> educational, all of them were fun. I think making a live CD for kids
> where fun themes (maybe popular cartoons?) and games are already
> installed would be good. 
> 
> Also, I don't know if it was just me, but I really liked drawing
> pictures and making my own graphics. (I still do!) I would put the
> pictures I made on invitations to a birthday party and just funny
> things I would make for my parents. Gimp is a bit much to ask a 6 year
> old to deal with, we could make sure they have simple drawing
> programs. 
> 
> Also, we could work on the navigation. We want to make the games and
> everything very easily accessible. 
> 
> Those are my ideas, but I agree with everyone else who said we should
> talk to some actual youngins. They could tell you their favorite
> cartoons, favorite colors, and favorite hobbies which would help in
> the creation of themes. 
> 
> ~Meg Kurdziolek
> 
> On 9/28/07, Miriam Ruiz <little.miry at gmail.com> wrote:
>         2007/9/28, Elizabeth Bevilacqua <lyz at ubuntu.com>:
>         > Why not call it Pink and Flowers Ubuntu? Or Pretty Ubuntu?
>         Why does
>         > the name have to be gender focused?
>         
>         I agree to your suggestion, it'll be nice to be able to
>         attract some 
>         boys to it too, and fight against the gender gap. I still
>         don't know
>         if the original plan was just to develop a theme ore there was
>         some
>         more in it. You don't need to create a whole distro for that,
>         a new 
>         theme could be perfectly added to Ubuntu. I'm just waiting an
>         answer
>         to that.
>         
>         Miry
>         
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