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| 2 | GCompris / I Got IT |
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| 3 | GCompris is a GNU package |
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| 4 | http://gcompris.net |
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| 6 | GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of |
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| 7 | numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities |
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| 8 | are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. |
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| 10 | Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are |
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| 11 | being developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can |
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| 12 | adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it |
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| 13 | with children everywhere. |
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| 15 | This version is a full rewrite of GCompris using the QtQuick technology. |
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| 18 | GCompris MOTIVATION |
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| 20 | Big Issue: |
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| 21 | There are many simple activities dedicated to children on any |
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| 22 | platforms, desktops, web and tablets. When they exist, they are hard |
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| 23 | to find and request the teacher/parent to manage a lot of |
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| 24 | independant small tools. |
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| 27 | Big Goal: |
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| 28 | Build an educational game suite all accessible from a single user interface. |
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| 29 | GCompris provides a simple to use user interface that makes it easy to select |
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| 30 | appropriate activities. |
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| 32 | How: |
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| 33 | GCompris is designed in a way that it is easy to add new activities to it. |
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| 34 | The activity is free to implement the game scheme it wants. |
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| 35 | The status bar is a common facility provided to the activities. |
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| 37 | GCompris provides some tools to let teacher/educator to easily add |
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| 38 | activities to GCompris. |
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| 40 | About You: |
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| 41 | Yes you can help by: |
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| 42 | Creating new activities. |
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| 43 | Providing fancy graphics to incorporate as icons or backgrounds. |
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| 44 | Translate GCompris. |
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| 45 | Just giving your ideas. |
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| 49 | NOTE TO TRANSLATORS |
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| 51 | You will get all the information to translate GCompris or to provide |
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| 52 | voices on our developers wiki: |
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| 53 | http://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner |
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