[IAEP] Fwd: Songs for kids!(also: keyboard for TamTam)

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Gary,
Yes, I know there are problems with TamTam, but it is still very usable and worthwhile in its current form.  Please include it! I wish I were a programmer that could help update TamTam, but I stopped programming in the days of Pascal. However, I would love to be a tester for this!
An 88 note keyboard would really be more than is needed for most uses. It could be offered as an option, but one of 3 1/2 to 4 octaves would be more than enough for most educational uses. The real value of the keyboard is so students can learn the layout so they can transfer their knowledge to many other instruments that use the same layout: marimba, xylophone, accordion, glockenspiel, vibraphone, organ, piano, etc, etc, etc. (these usually have far fewer than 88 keys or tone bars).
Actually, a 30 key version would be plenty for starters... go from the G below middle C to the C two octaves above middle C. This would also be more child friendly... larger keys (also good for older people with "fat fingers"), less confusion, but still offers the opportunity to learn the layout while having lots of fun playing!
Keep me posted...
Caryl
P.S. If others reading this have ideas for keyboard layout for TamTam, please add them!

From: garycmartin at googlemail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:29:26 +0100
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
CC: localization at lists.laptop.org; support-gang at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Songs for kids!

Hi Caryl,
On 23 Aug 2012, at 16:27, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:





Perfect! Now we can really get going on a TamTam resource page on the OLPC wiki. They will have to be transcribed into QWERTY notation for the XO-1.x family.. But, when the XO-3 and XO-4 come out, there can be a standard keyboard on the screen (right, C.Scott?).
Well I hope we'll manage a decent piano keyboard layout – touch gives us so many UI possibilities! Unfortunately TamTam code is not in the best of shape and requires quite a major UI undertaking. Given the time available, it is down as a 'not in this cycle'.
If you're interested in the on-screen-keyboard support, design work is here:
   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit
Regards,--Gary
Happy! Caryl

> From: cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:18:25 -0400
> To: localization at lists.laptop.org; support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: [support-gang] Fwd: Songs for kids!
> 
> Forwarding from Gnome i18n list.  We re-package GCompris as a series
> of Activities in Sugar, so contributions to this upstream effort would
> be welcome.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gil Forcada <gforcada at gnome.org>
> Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:36 PM
> Subject: Songs for kids!
> To: gnome-i18n <gnome-i18n at gnome.org>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One GCompris developer started a wiki page[1] which lists songs for kids
> for anywhere in the world.
> 
> It would be cool if we can contribute there (I have already seen some
> translators adding their local songs!) and show that we are a great team
> and that GNOME can be taught to kids on every single language anywhere
> in the world!
> 
> Cheers,
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/GComprisMelodies
> 
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