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]

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Ten comments here (latest comments)

  1. 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!

    — Liz Lawley #

  2. “What I like about Mr. Pilgrim is that he always invites us to new parts of Open Source World in a million funny ways.”

    — angelday true #

  3. Huh. That’s better than most images I’ve seen that have been created with the GIMP… kudos.

    — Dave #

  4. 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!

    — Conor O'Neill #

  5. Did you ask him whether he wanted to allow commercial uses? (I kid, I kid…)

    — mpt #

  6. 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 ;)

    — mattl #

  7. Are you mimicking “buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo” on purpose? ;)

    — Jim #

  8. Way to rock the fish! Props to the little guy.

    — Carla #

  9. I had to make a tribute:

    He can have fun labeling the different Polaroids. :D

    — Carla #

  10. Whoops. Link: http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/278749350/

    — Carla #

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