I recently introduced my two-year-old to GCompris and TuxPaint. This morning we spent 20 minutes playing with the stamp tool, and he would like to share the result. The conversation went something like this:
- Me
- (Loads saved picture in browser) Look, that’s your fish.
- Him
- Yeah, fish fish fish fish fish.
- Me
- Can I share your fish?
- Him
- YEAH!
So, as his parent and legal guardian, I am licensing it under the CC ShareAlike License on his behalf.
![[Fish fish fish fish fish]](/public/2006/10/20061015105156.jpg)
Allow me to project ten years into the future (based on my experience with my 10 and 12-year-old children):
You: Look, I found the web page with that wonderful fish picture you did when you were two! Isn’t it great?
Him: OMFG, Dad, I can’t *believe* you put that online. I am SO embarrassed. Other kids’ parents don’t put their crap online for the whole world to look at. TAKE THAT DOWN!
You: Um…well…I can take it down, but it’s already been used elsewhere by a number of people because of the Creative Commons license. In fact, your middle school science teacher uses it as a background on her myClassroom page!
Him: [door slams]
Just kidding. (Mostly.) And the image is gorgeous!
Comment by Liz Lawley — Sunday, October 15, 2006 @ 12:17 pm
“What I like about Mr. Pilgrim is that he always invites us to new parts of Open Source World in a million funny ways.”
Comment by angelday true — Sunday, October 15, 2006 @ 12:44 pm
Huh. That’s better than most images I’ve seen that have been created with the GIMP… kudos.
Comment by Dave — Sunday, October 15, 2006 @ 1:42 pm
Yep the stamps in TuxPaint have always been my kids favourite thing to play with on a PC. Have to say I kinda like messing with it myself, being artistically challenged as I am.
As for embarrassment, my 7-year old was horrified when I posted a copy of a letter he sent to a yoghurt manufacturer on my blog. He wasn’t so annoyed when he realised that it worked!
Comment by Conor O'Neill — Sunday, October 15, 2006 @ 2:24 pm
Did you ask him whether he wanted to allow commercial uses? (I kid, I kid…)
Comment by mpt — Tuesday, October 17, 2006 @ 7:42 am
I love TuxPaint. We had a Free Culture workshop in Reading (near London) and invited kids along to mess around with free software. TuxPaint was a hit with everyone who used it.
I think my favourite thing is to put a bird on the back of another animal and have the bird say something stupid or rude.
I always sign my images with my age in true kid style.
matt lee 25 1/2 ;)
Comment by mattl — Tuesday, October 17, 2006 @ 10:01 am
Are you mimicking “buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo” on purpose? ;)
Comment by Jim — Monday, October 23, 2006 @ 5:31 pm
Way to rock the fish! Props to the little guy.
Comment by Carla — Tuesday, October 24, 2006 @ 10:25 pm
I had to make a tribute:
He can have fun labeling the different Polaroids. :D
Comment by Carla — Tuesday, October 24, 2006 @ 10:40 pm
Whoops. Link: http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/278749350/
Comment by Carla — Tuesday, October 24, 2006 @ 10:40 pm