RFD: proposed new (likely virtual) category, education

[Don Wilde]

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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