German ktouch lessons make users type violent, threatening text

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Natanji <natanji at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just been made aware on Twitter [1] that the ktouch software - part
> of the KDE Edu project - has a lesson in which users must type the text
> "erledige die genannten sachen sonst haue ich dich richtig lange durch".
> This roughly translates to "Do the named things or I will punch you over
> a long period of time".
>
> This is completely unacceptable.
>
> KDE Edu is advertised as software for, among others, *children*. The
> sentence can be contextualized as one that an abusive
> parent/guardian/teacher might say to a child in order to get them to
> work harder, and I'm sure KDE Edu doesn't want to do this.
>
> I have no clue where else this can be reported quickly to make sure
> sentences like these don't appear in the software anymore, but I felt
> this mailing list was probably a good starting point since you all
> probably share the goal of making KDE Edu software actually appropriate
> for children. There should be an investigation into making the training
> sentences of ktouch safe and violence-free.
>
> FYI, I'm not interested in other mailing list content, so I haven't
> subsribed to the list - please put me into the CC if you want to answer
> me. Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best regards,
> Natanji
>
> [1] https://twitter.com/NerdResa/status/702894227332710401

Hi Natanji,
Thanks a lot for reporting this. I understand that you were shocked
when you found it. So was I when I read your e-mail.

As you will understand we are a community-based project and we just
have our small resources. It got resolved as soon as we were pointed
to the issue, we can't fix what we don't know it's broken. If you like
to help, you'll be more than welcome.

Regards,
Aleix