[gcompris-devel] GCompris suggestion

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 16:46 -0500, C Rhoden a écrit :
> I love the concept of the GCompris product, and have installed it on
> my linux box, in hopes that one day my daughter will start using it.
> But I see a missing target age range.  My daughter doesn't know much
> about computers, other than they have buttons that she can press.
> Another product that I have installed on my Windows PC is called
> BabySmash (http://www.hanselman.com/babysmash/).  The concept is very
> simple.  The baby simply smashes buttons on the keyboard, and the
> screen displays letters and shapes, all while making laughing sounds.
> It simply gets a baby used to using a computer.  Are there any plans
> to make something like this for the GCompris application?  I would
> really appreciate the consideration.

Thanks for your interest in GCompris. As there is nothing personal, I
copy my response to our developer mailing list [1].

I don't have a strong opinion on baby oriented activities. I would like
to know more about this kind of activity. Is this really educational ?

If there is a consensus and someone develop an activity around this
concept, I'll be glad to integrate it.

[1] http://gcompris.net/The-mailing-list

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