Hi, as a semi-active member of the debtags project I am more involved in the technical side. But generally I like your idea.
I would suggest to add those tags to the "junior::" facet. I would also suggest to limit the age-classification not to games but generally to software targeted for kids (e.g. tuxpaint). When you've reached consensus about whether to have such tags and which ones to use, please start a new thread ony debtags-devel and list the tags you would like us to add. We will then add the tags to the vocabulary. Best regards Ben On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 23:00 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > > Note: I'm putting DebTags mailing list in CC in case someone is > interested. > > > Context: We've had some meetings during DebConf and we decided to try > to resurrect the project Debian Jr. My plan is to rename the project > to Debian Kids > > > The first thing I would like to do is to classify the games that might > be appropriate for kids of different ages, and based on that build the > rest. Of course there are many different criteria for doing that, some > objective, some subjective. In ay case, the result should be, in my > opinion, a set of tags that should give different axis of information > about the package, so that parents o whoever can decide based on that. > > > For starters, I would like to define a classification of the programs > and games based on the evolutionary stage in which the person is [1]. > I'm planning to take into account at least the cognitive stage of > development, the sensimotor stage of development and the psychosocial > stage of development at a certain age. > > > I'm still not sure if I want to separate that into different axis > (which might benefit people with special needs at the cost of some > more work) or keep it simple (kiss) and make it as simple as possible. > > > The stages of Cognitive Development according to Piaget are: > - Sensory Motor Stage (Birth - 2yrs) > > - Preoperational Stage (2yrs - 7yrs) > - Concrete Operational Stage (7yrs - 11yrs) > - Formal Operations Stage (11yrs - 16yrs) > > > The stages in Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development are: > - Early Childhood: Achieving Autonomy (18 months to 3 years) > > - Middle Childhood: Developing Initiative (ages 3 to 6) > - Late Childhood: Becoming Industrious (ages 7 to 11) > - Adolescence: Establishing Identity (ages 11 and upwards) > > > Somehow it seems that a good level of granularity might be 3 years, > with some approximate boundaries at 2/3, 6, 9, and 11/12 years. So my > initial idea is to define a set of tags with some name I can't > currently figure out year, that would be like: > A) An average baby of 3 years old could use the program according to > their cognitive, sensimotor and psychosocial stage of development. > B) An average child of 6 years old could use the program according to > their cognitive, sensimotor and psychosocial stage of development. > C) An average kid of 9 years old could use the program according to > their cognitive, sensimotor and psychosocial stage of development. > D) An average pre-teen of 12 years old could use the program according > to their cognitive, sensimotor and psychosocial stage of development. > > > There's no sense in adding another tag for teens of about 15 years > old, as their development characteristics would be too close to any > adult. > > > The best thing about such a simple system is that it's quite easy to > know, whoever has kids around know which programs they are able to > manage, in both aspects of cognitive development ("the way they > think"), sensorimotor development ("how complex and quick the managing > of the program might be"), etc. > > > One thing I would like to decide is whether an objective > classification of this kind should be generic enough (and be allowed > to, and under which conditons) to be put into the standard debtag set > (other tags, mostly subjective or culturally dependent ones should > have to go into their own package), which will definitely bring a lot > of benefits. > > > So, ideas? comments? > > > Greetings and thanks, > Miry > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Kids/Classification > > > _______________________________________________ > Debtags-devel mailing list > Debtags-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list Debtags-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel