<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan Berry</b> <<a href="mailto:bryan.berry@gmail.com">bryan.berry@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Jan 18, 2008 9:55 PM<br>
Subject: Suggestion for Terms of Use for content<br>To: <a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br><br><br>I immensely admire the Scratch website as a space for collaboration for<br>kids and adults. I suggest OLPC seriously consider adopting these same<br>
terms of use.<br><br><br>Scratch Terms of Use <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/terms" target="_blank">http://scratch.mit.edu/terms</a><br><br>As part of the Scratch community, you are sharing projects and ideas<br>with people:<br>
• from many different countries and cultures<br>• of all ages (from young children to teens and grandparents)<br>• with all levels of experience<br><br>We need your help to make this community a supportive place for every<br>
member. Here's how you can help:<br><br>Be respectful. When sharing projects, remember that people of many<br>different ages and backgrounds will see your creations.<br><br>Offer constructive comments. Instead of just criticizing a project, say<br>
what you like about it and offer suggestions on how to make it better.<br><br>Give credit. Feel free to make modified versions of other people's<br>projects - just make sure to give them credit. One place to give credit<br>
is in your Project Notes.<br><br>Help keep the site safe. If you feel others would find a project mean,<br>insulting, too violent, or otherwise inappropriate, click the link from<br>that page: "Flag as inappropriate." (The Scratch team will review, and<br>
may remove any project or comments.)<br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------<br><br>I think it would be great for OLPC to put together a team to<br>periodically review content tagged as inappropriate. This group should<br>
include teachers and women (who could be teachers :) not be solely<br>composed of male software developers or pseudo-developers like myself.<br><br>Perhaps it would be good to set up a site like <a href="http://www.xohacker.org" target="_blank">www.xohacker.org</a> where<br>
people could post their free clones of Grand Theft Auto or Leisure Suit<br>Larry. This would give people the freedom to do what they want and<br>maintain a safe environment for kids w/in the OLPC activities pages.<br>Frankly, I myself like violent games but I respect that they bother a<br>
lot of people, particularly teachers and parents I work w/.<br><br>I will try to contact John Maloney of the Scratch team and find out what<br>particular procedures they have for reviewing content.<br><br>BTW, I really like ScratchR community site and think it is a great<br>
option for hosting the activities.<br><a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/scratchr" target="_blank">http://scratch.mit.edu/scratchr</a><br><br><br>I hope this doesn't start another rewar :)<br><br>--<br>Bryan W. Berry<br>
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