From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Jul 18 18:16:29 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF3D370914 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauamma@gundo.com) Received: from mail.gundo.com (gibson.gundo.com [75.145.166.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8GQh6dnhz4ZQ1 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauamma@gundo.com) Received: from webmail.gundo.com (variax.gundo.com [75.145.166.70]) by mail.gundo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC7D4C1B36 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 13:16:26 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:16:26 +0000 From: Pau Amma To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFD: proposed new (likely virtual) category, education In-Reply-To: References: <342ff706e1eb34f7283e24107fd03ded@gundo.com> <91dc3ebd-56a4-5779-84d1-09ae7a820791@heuristicsystems.com.au> <6cab9a5f37fdd3df47252165cb2b19fa@gundo.com> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4.1 Message-ID: <9fbe1a5e070d76e2cc581321c21bb608@gundo.com> X-Sender: pauamma@gundo.com X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B8GQh6dnhz4ZQ1 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pauamma@gundo.com designates 75.145.166.65 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pauamma@gundo.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.23 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.73)[-0.733]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_GOOD(0.00)[75.145.166.65:from]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-ports@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.88)[-0.877]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[gundo.com]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED(-0.20)[75.145.166.65:from]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.22)[-0.223]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7922, ipnet:75.144.0.0/13, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:16:29 -0000 On 2020-07-18 15:41, Don Wilde wrote: > On 7/18/20 5:21 AM, Pau Amma wrote: >> On 2020-07-18 06:22, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: >>> On 18/07/2020 1:09 pm, Pau Amma wrote: >>>> This category would comprise ports that are mainly educational in >>>> nature >>>> or purpose, such as: >>>> - course-writing or course-delivery applications, >>>> - classroom or school management applications (eg, scheduling >>>> classes), >>>> - applications, utilities, or games primarily or substantially >>>> designed >>>> to help the user learn a specific topic or study in general, like >>>> typing >>>> tutors, flashcard applications, or educational games. >>> ... >>> >>> Great idea Pau! >>> >>> You might like to add www/sakai though its quite dated (ports is >>> 10.2; >>> current version 20.1) >> >> Indeed. Not sure how I missed it, thanks. I'll wait a few more days >> before filing a PR, in case I missed something else or there's an >> objection. > > I, too, love the idea. I would suggest that a sub-category of > "suggested learning path" programs might be an asset as well, > including useful languages to examine. Can you give me examples of which ports would go into that 4th subcategory? > We might also consider > resurrecting Knuth's code+language concepts and tools. I'd wait until that category gets off the ground to consider that. > Assuming this category is accepted, I would then suggest an > announcement post to the FreeBSD-advocacy@ and FreeBSD-women@ lists, > and perhaps notification to the KDE and EduBuntu core lists. :D I'm not sure why FreeBSD-women. Can you elaborate?