On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Bruno Coudoin <[email protected]> wrote: > Le samedi 30 mai 2009 à 09:39 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso a écrit : >> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 20:53, David Farning <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Some of the primary gcomprise developers were at the OLPCFrance >> > meeting earilyer this month. Has anyone gotten a chance to follow up >> > with them on points of collaboration between gcomprise and Sugar? > > Hi all, > > It was nice to meet there. Hope we can make some process improvements to > improve the quality of GCompris on Sugar.
Sorry about mangling your project name. I had never heard the name pronounced correctly until I met you last week. Now I only I could learn the correct pronunciation of metacity:) >> We met with Bruno again in Paris and talked about some areas in which >> we can improve the gcompris experience in Sugar: >> >> - integration of the GCompris admin tools in Sugar, >> - integration of the GCompris progress tracking tools in Sugar. > > Not sure if its a good idea anyway. The admin tool is teacher oriented. > I don't see a teacher have to open all the children's XO to see what's > going on. I thing you need to setup an admin tool that plays well in a > classroom full of XO. Yes, this is pretty high on the list of needs. One group is testing iTALC. david >> - packaging of activities in sets or separated and distribution via >> activities.sugarlabs.org, > > For this someone needs to write an importer to translate GCompris's XML > activities descriptions. This is what I am doing to create gcompris.net > activity descriptions. For information, there are 100 activities in 60 > languages and it translated in 6000 article on the web site. > > In GCompris I do this with a perl script and an xsl transformation > towards the format used by my online content management system. All the > code is in the docs directory. This should be possible to adapt them to > your internal structure. > >> - distribution of localized content inside bundles or as addons, > > This is tricky. I am working on the bundles currently and got an idea. > > Would it be acceptable to ship my activity bundle with symbolic link to > the sounds bundles. Potentially these link will be dead unless the voice > bundle is installed. > > If it is, then it's just a mater to create voices bundles and include > links in the activity bundle I ship. Very easy I think for me and for > the users. > > >> Bruno, am I missing anything? > > Nothing more I can remember. > > For now I am working on the bundling again to update my process but at > some point there will be a major need for someone to pick up this work > or GCompris will be unmaintained on Sugar. > > -- > Bruno Coudoin > http://gcompris.net Free educational software for kids > http://toulibre.org Logiciel Libre à Toulouse > http://april.org Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
