Hi, I'm developing a game rating system for Debian and Ubuntu using the DebTags system [1]. Up to now I've been able to develop a basic set of tags to classify the games [2], but before considering it finished and started tagging the games, I want to get as much feedback as possible, especially from teachers, educators, parents and in general people that work with and study about children.
The idea is not to develop a fully exhaustive system with a thousand tags. I believe that parents and tutors must check themselves the games before letting their kids play with them, and supervise them while they do if they're little. This does not try to be a replacement for parents in this task, but a helper to let them have a rough idea about where to look at the games in the repositories according to their own priorities. So being exhaustive is not as a priority as being easily managed to get a rough filter with them. Right now some tags are already being used by GoPlay!, a system to find games in Debian, but it a very alpha state. The purpose is to make it configurable so that parents can decide which tags are important for them. I hope that the overall scheme can be understood, but I plan to write a rationale about it as soon as I can, as well as develop some examples so that they can be easily understood. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me about any doubts you might have. I know that the tags might be a bit subjective and probably a bit culturally biased. The former is not avoidable, there will always be some kind of subjectivity in these kind of classification, so I won't fight the impossible to achieve absolute objectiveness, but on the other hand to make the parents decide the subjectivity they want to have by selecting and priorizing them. About being multicultural, I cannot do that on my own, as I'm not multicultural myself, so I won't try to invent what other cultures might be worried about or not based on some fuzzy stereotypes I might have about them, so I rely on other people from different cultures help me to broaden the classification if they will. Feedback is welcome and encouraged. Greetings and thanks, Miry [1] http://wiki.debian.org/OpenRating [2] http://wiki.debian.org/OpenRating/Categories -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
