[IAEP] gcomprise

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le samedi 30 mai 2009 à 09:39 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso a écrit :
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 20:53, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> 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.

> 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.

> - 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
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