On 7/18/20 11:16 AM, Pau Amma wrote:
On 2020-07-18 15:41, Don Wilde wrote:
On 7/18/20 5:21 AM, Pau Amma wrote:
On 2020-07-18 06:22, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:
On 18/07/2020 1:09 pm, Pau Amma wrote:
This category would comprise ports that are mainly educational in
nature
or purpose, such as:
- course-writing or course-delivery applications,
- classroom or school management applications (eg, scheduling
classes),
- applications, utilities, or games primarily or substantially
designed
to help the user learn a specific topic or study in general, like
typing
tutors, flashcard applications, or educational games.
...
Great idea Pau!
You might like to add www/sakai though its quite dated (ports is 10.2;
current version 20.1)
Indeed. Not sure how I missed it, thanks. I'll wait a few more days
before filing a PR, in case I missed something else or there's an
objection.
I, too, love the idea. I would suggest that a sub-category of
"suggested learning path" programs might be an asset as well,
including useful languages to examine.
Can you give me examples of which ports would go into that 4th
subcategory?
None, yet, that I've looked at. I haven't, and making the category
itself is an inducement to examine the ports we have.
We might also consider
resurrecting Knuth's code+language concepts and tools.
I'd wait until that category gets off the ground to consider that.
Yes, that is a longer-term goal.
Assuming this category is accepted, I would then suggest an
announcement post to the FreeBSD-advocacy@ and FreeBSD-women@ lists,
and perhaps notification to the KDE and EduBuntu core lists. :D
I'm not sure why FreeBSD-women. Can you elaborate?
FreeBSD-women is the advocacy list that specifically targets "marketing"
FreeBSD to women. Not to say that men _don't_ care about education -- I
do -- but women are more inclined to view it as life-changing for
themselves and their children and thus more of a priority.
--
Don Wilde
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