[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: Qimo 4 Kids

[David Farning]

Very nice,

Their story is very compelling!  I believe that the project was
started by some technically skilled parents to create some tools for
their own son who has special learning needs.

david

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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