RFD: proposed new (likely virtual) category, education

[Pau Amma]

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?

> 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.

> 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?