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| 2 | `GCompris <http://gcompris.net>`_ |
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| 5 | .. image:: src/core/resource/gcompris.png |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | Presentation |
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| 8 | ============ |
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| 9 | `GCompris <http://gcompris.net>`_ is a high quality educational software suite |
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| 10 | comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the |
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| 11 | activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being |
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| 14 | developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can use it as you |
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| 15 | wish, adapt it to your own needs, improve it, and, most importantly, share it |
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| 16 | with everyone. |
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| 17 | |
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| 18 | This version is a full rewrite of GCompris using the QtQuick technology. It is |
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| 19 | developed within the `KDE community <https://www.kde.org>`_ and is part of the |
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| 20 | `GNU Project <https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-software-gcompris.en.html>`_. |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | Goal |
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| 23 | ==== |
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| 25 | There are many simple activities dedicated to children on any platforms, |
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| 26 | desktops, web and tablets. When they exist, they are hard to find and request |
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| 27 | the teacher or parent to manage a lot of independant small tools. |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | GCompris is an educational suite of activities all accessible from a |
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| 30 | single unified user interface. |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | How |
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| 33 | === |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | GCompris is designed in a way that it is easy to add new activities to it. The |
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| 36 | activity is free to implement the game scheme it wants. The status bar is a |
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| 37 | common facility provided to the activities. |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | GCompris provides some tools to let teacher/educator to easily add activities |
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| 40 | to GCompris. |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | About You |
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| 43 | ========= |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | You can help by: |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | * `Creating new activities <http://gcompris.net/wiki/Qt_Quick_development_process>`_. |
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| 48 | * Providing fancy graphics to incorporate as icons or backgrounds. |
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| 49 | * `Translating GCompris |
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| 50 | <http://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner#Translation>`_. |
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| 51 | * `Recording voices <http://gcompris.net/wiki/Voice_translation_Qt>`_. |
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| 52 | * `Just giving your ideas |
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| 53 | <http://gcompris.net/wiki/Ideas_for_activities>`_. |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | Get more information on our `developer's wiki |
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| 56 | <http://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner>`_. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | Licence |
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| 59 | ======= |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | GCompris is free software released under the `GPL V3+ |
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| 62 | <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.fr.html>`_. |
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