[TriLUG] book for kids on open source philosophy?
Jack Hill
jackhill at jackhill.us
Thu Jan 19 12:10:11 EST 2012
The interwebs also inform me of the existence of a Ubuntu manga:
http://divajutta.com/doctormo/ubunchu/
and a young adult book by Cory Doctorow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Cory_Doctorow_novel)
I haven't read either, so can't talk to how useful or appropriate they
are.
Jack
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Jack Hill wrote:
> For your own education (and perhaps for the child as it grows older) I
> recommend _Free Software Free Society_
> <http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society-2/>. It's a
> collection of short essays by rms about software freedom.
>
> 10 years old is old enough to start learning to program. Perhaps set the
> child up with a GNU/Linux environment, and then find simple, real-world,
> programs to study (perhaps KDE plasmoids or emacs modes).
>
> Good luck.
>
> Perhaps we need to have a TriLUG family day.
>
> Jack
>
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