[IAEP] gcomprise

[David Farning]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr> wrote:
> 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.

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
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