<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apologies for the long delay from me, caused by a sudden attack of acute glaucoma in one eye from which I am recovering fast. Happily I can still see :-) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As Robert is on vacation just now and both of us will be tied up most of the rest of this month, I suggest we pick it up again in November to look at scheduling. I’ll finetune the outline below, meanwhile. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The plan still is to film material for 2 or 3 videos, some early next year by which time we may be able to shoot actual film for some bits to make it more interesting:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans;">Video 1: Focus on GCompris from edu perspective, its inception, reception and global uptake. What were the challenges encountered? Who was involved? Briefly, what made Bruno switch to Qt? Hoping we can get some real interview/conversational footage with at least Bruno here, via a film-maker colleague in France, if he’s available.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans;">Video 2: Focus on the Software aspect, reference to KDE and opensource, a look at the update and maintenance issues. We can have a KDAB Qt expert ask some key questions of the engineers here, perhaps. Looping back to the educational aspect and the overall story of GCompris and its success.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans;">Video 3: Q&A (maybe a few months after the first two), with video participants answering questions posed in the comments section*</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans;">*If none, No Video</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can someone meanwhile kindly put me in touch with Bruno so I can find out if he’d be willing to participate?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frances</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 8 Sep 2021, at 17:23, Frances Tait <<a href="mailto:frances.tait@kdab.com" class="">frances.tait@kdab.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An outline agenda for when we meet:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Aims for this meeting</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">1. Get to know each other</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">2. OK/Fine tune the 'Plan'</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">3. Clarify practical recording issues</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">4. Plan First session</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> - who’s needed?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> - confirm subject matter</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> - possible dates</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> - what else?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you later,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frances</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Sep 2021, at 18:53, Paul Brown <<a href="mailto:paul.brown@kde.org" class="">paul.brown@kde.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Monday, 6 September 2021 18:09:57 CEST Frances Tait wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi again, Timothée, Aish (I hope it’s OK if I call you that!) Paul and<br class="">Emmanuel, also Robert, as we can’t do it without you :-),<br class=""><br class="">This is our rough Plan for how to go forward. It entails 3 or 4 short<br class="">videos, 5 - 10 minutes long, introduced by KDAB. Our first step would be to<br class="">have a joint Zoom call to discuss and refine the ideas below (I know you<br class="">hate Zoom but it’s just for the planning - happy to use something else if<br class="">there’s technical reasons it won’t work for you). See end of this mail for<br class="">suggested dates and time.<br class=""><br class="">Rough Plan 1 <start><br class="">Video 1. An Intro and Overview of GCompris, where it’s in use, what inspired<br class="">it, both in the education approach and the software development - why Qt? <br class="">This would also include mention of KDE’s involvement in all this.<br class=""><br class="">Possible participants: Robert, Paul, Bruno and Tim with help from Emmanuel<br class="">on the intro that Robert will give.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Oh wow... I don't think I can provide anything of value more than what Tim, <br class="">Johnny and Emmanuel can in the technical aspects. Quite the contrary.<br class=""><br class="">I can talk about how KDE is trying to get more schools, teachers, parents, and <br class="">especially kids to use the software, if that is of any use to you.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class=""><br class="">Paul<br class="">-- <br class="">Promotion & Communication<br class=""><br class="">www: <a href="http://kde.org/" class="">http://kde.org</a><br class="">Mastodon: <a href="https://mastodon.technology/@kde" class="">https://mastodon.technology/@kde</a><br class="">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kde/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/kde/</a><br class="">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kdecommunity" class="">https://twitter.com/kdecommunity</a><br class="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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