[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: Qimo 4 Kids

[Mike Lee]

All good to know. One of us may try it out on a netbook towards having our
club doing a bakeoff at a club meeting of open source, kid-friendly UIs.

Mike

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> I tried to contact this project a few months ago.  I never got past
> their email auto reply:(
>
> david
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Mike
> >
> > Bernie had spotted this a while ago, if you have a moment read through
> > this thread:
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-February/004217.html
> >
> > This general discussion about competitors is of interest too:
> >  http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-March/004328.html
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Kevin Cole of our Learning Club pointed this out to me:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.qimo4kids.com/page/What-is-Qimo.aspx
> >>
> >> "Qimo is a desktop operating system designed for kids. Based on the open
> >> source Ubuntu Linux desktop, Qimo comes pre-installed with educational
> games
> >> for children aged 3 and up.
> >>
> >> Qimo's interface has been designed to be intuitive and easy to use,
> >> providing large icons for all installed games, so that even the youngest
> >> users have no trouble selecting the activity they want."
> >>
> >> And from their FAQ:
> >>
> >> http://www.qimo4kids.com/page/FAQ.aspx
> >>
> >> Q: Why not use Sugar from the OLPC project? A: Sugar is a very good
> >> interface for the OLPC computers it was made for, but many of the design
> >> decisions and interfaces don't work nearly as well on standard PCs. Qimo
> >> uses a customized XFCE interface to provide a fast, lightweight, and
> most
> >> importantly an easy to navigate interface that works well with standard
> >> computers, monitors and keyboards.
> >>
> >>
> >> Here's a review, but not much mention of what kids' software is
> included.
> >>
> >> http://www.raiden.net/articles/review_qimo_linux_for_kids/
> >>
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
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