[Sugar-devel] One for Grandma and Grandpa

[Paul Fox]

christian wrote:
 > Hi Paul
 > 
 > Yes indeed we have created a new concept that is basically the 
 > transformation of the Sugar learning environment developed solely for 
 > very young children to an operating system environment for older persons.
 > For sure, the main focus on the side of the activities is not that a 
 > grandma or a grandpa will toy with Turtle for example, which she or he 
 > can do, but to use the basic software platform with upcoming activities 
 > for the older persons.
 > Activities like this have to be designed in a very similar way like 
 > activities for children, but they can comprise many other activities 
 > that children are not interested in. Very prominent examples are 
 > assistants systems, home automation applications, and ambient intelligence.
 > Also, some other icons have to be designed.
 > 
 > Does this answer your question?

yes.  as i understand it, you've created a new concept, but have not
done any actual design or development work.

so there's really nothing of interest to see.  thanks.

paul

 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Have fun
 > Christian Stroetmann
 > 
 > > christian wrote:
 > >   >  Aloha
 > >   >
 > >   >  We are pleased to inform the community about our last step related with
 > >   >  the Sugar learning platform after we connected Sugar with the Firefox OS
 > >   >  as Sugarfox.
 > >   >
 > >   >  Today we came back to a relatively old concept developed in our OntoLab
 > >   >  which is based on the observations that everything a junior can do with
 > >   >  a computer a senior can do as well on the hand and that on the other
 > >   >  hand many modern societies have a serious problem with the excess of
 > >   >  age. In this conjunction we extended the target group of Sugar and
 > >   >  called the related projects:
 > >   >  One Laptop Per Grandma,
 > >   >  One Laptop Per Grandpa,
 > >   >  One Tablet Per Grandma, and
 > >   >  One Tablet Per Grandpa
 > >   >  abbreviated as OLPG and OTPG.
 > >   >  Extremely helpful is the minimalistic design of the Graphical User
 > >   >  Interface (GUI), and the easy to learn and use activities of Sugar.
 > >   >
 > >   >  We congratulate every very passionate volunteer for bringing Sugar to
 > >   >  this point, but now it is really time to go further.
 > >   >
 > >   >  Please, respect our trademarks and our copyrights.
 > >
 > > i don't understand.
 > >
 > > have you actually created something new?  or are you just claiming
 > > trademarks on someone else's work?  i'm confused.
 > >
 > > paul
 > >
 > >   >
 > >   >
 > >   >
 > >   >  Best regards and Have fun
 > >   >  Christian Stroetmann
 > >   >
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