[Indic-computing-users] Re: [school-discuss] gcompris won at the trophee du libre (fwd)

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

This note is from the person who put together SchoolForge, an=20
education-related package of useful software in the Free Software world.=20
Could some intending developers help to link up? FN
PS: You can contact Bruno Coudoin <bru...@fr...>
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We accept of course your proposal.=20

First thing to do I believe is to provided a localized version for india
(gcompris is full utf-8 now).=20

Then, perhaps, it would be nice to implement some local games that kids
use to play in india on paper (no specific idea, I just think it may
exist).=20

Other than this, indian language is rather obscure to us, having some
kind of training and discovery of your language and culture would be an
excellent way to make our kids feel closer and let's dream avoid wars ;)

On your side of course, it will make gcompris closer to the way you
teach.

Bruno.


Le jeu 29/05/2003 =E0 00:54, Frederick Noronha (FN) a =E9crit :
> Bruno, Last night my four-and-half year old daughter was playing with=20
> Gcompris. She likes it very much. Particularly the tool to learn mouse=20
> movements and Potato Guy! Thanks from distant India for all the excellent=
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> work you'll guys have put in. If we could help to get some developers fro=
m=20
> here to volunteer with you task, do let us know. Frederick Noronha in Goa=
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> India.
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> On Mon, 26 May 2003, David Bucknell wrote:
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> > I'd like to add my thanks and congratulations to those of others for Br=
uno and
> > team's hard work to make GCompris the excellent set of applications it =
is. I
> > look forward to Schoolforge helping him to find new contributing develo=
pers,
> > too, especially since he has created a Python version. Jeff Elkner et a=
l (his
> > students) may just be able to contribute a board or two, I'll bet.
> >=20
> > I've posted the news (below) on http://news.schoolforge.net
> >=20
> > David
> > =3D
> > Quoting Bruno Coudoin <bru...@fr...>:
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> > > I am proud to annouce that gcompris won the education trophee at the
> > > trophee du libre that took place last friday in soisson france.
> > > http://www.tropheesdulibre.org
> > >=20
> > > I would like to thanks all the contributors that helped gcompris to b=
e
> > > the successfull project it is now.
> > >=20
> > > I also thanks the organisation abuledu and ofset who make a lot to br=
ing
> > > gcompris and other free educational application to the schools.
> > >=20
> > > Thanks again to all of you out there moving bits little by little and
> > > who makes the free software dream becomming reality.
> > >=20
> > > Bruno.
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Bruno Coudoin <bru...@fr...>