On 2008-February-19 , at 19:00 , technical writing plus wrote:
Ocetalo,
As I said, I feel that this 'kidscape' thing is a good idea. I'd help with whatever parts of implementing the idea that I could. I do technical editing, writing, and illustration, and cartooning. And I translate, but only into English (I do Chinese, German, and Spanish into English).
Another thing is related to how the Inkscape project would approach the problem of marketing a childrens version. In my opinion, a little research into how those users would use such a version, and how the project should go about trying to promote the new version to those users (I'd imagine that your network might well become a part of that), would be most important.
There is a feature or enhancement request pipeline that the organizers of this e-mail forum occasionally tell users about, but I don't know anything about how to access it. I would suppose that somebody might have suggested such an interesting and provocative idea before - probably not, though.
For such large projects you can use a Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/ so that the discussion has a permanent home. Please summarize your emails there and develop your ideas. These pages are meant to be developed in time, adding ideas, interface mockups etc.
I would also like to see Inkscape modified this way. Was there not already something done for the One Laptop Per Child project?
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/