[gcompris-devel] Re: Gcompris languages

[Bruno Coudoin]

John,

A year from now, you were moving fast toward Linux in schools.
I have seen on your web site that you have now 1000 Computers running
GNU/Linux. This is a great achievement and to my knowledge the major one
in the world.

I'd like to hear more about your experience, are you part of the
schoolforge initiative (http://www.schoolforge.net/).
If not, why not join it and write a little story on your experience,
what distrib/software do you use, what is the good and the bad with
GNU/Linux in your schools.

Of course, I am also interrested to know if you still use gcompris.

Bruno.


Le lun 18/02/2002 à 09:48, John Cuzzola a écrit :
> > On your side, can you tell us more on the usage your having of gcompris, is
> > it a pilot project? how many classroom are using it, what age?
> > 
> > Don't hesitate to tell us what teachers/children like or don't like so 
> > that we
> > can improve gcompris.
> 
> *** Hi Bruno,
> (thanks for the ldd) Well we're a school district with approx 15,000
> students (approx 60 elementary & 12 high schools). For years we were/are
> using a
> Windows/Novell combination at all our locations. Because of budget
> constraints and Microsoft's licensing costs I was quite happy with the IT
> Manager's decision to pilot Linux not only as a File Server (Samba) but on
> the desktop as well. In September we piloted the system at two
> elementary schools
> and it was a success. The Kids loved it (actually they loved
> Tux), teachers liked it as well and the two pilot projects graduated to
> permanent installations. The labs are based on the LTSP.org project which
> I'm sure you are aware of. Well it's worked so well that the decision was
> made that in three years ALL schools will be converted to Linux (Even in
> the high schools where they will probably be dual boot Linux/Windows but
> the Novell servers will be replaced with Samba). Gcompris is a VERY
> important element in our success. The teacher's think it's great and it's
> one of the few programs designed for the grade 1-3 age groups. As for
> suggestions I'll ask some of the teachers for input but I think if you
> just keep doing what you're doing (adding boards) that will be perfect. I
> had some problems with gcompris 0.96 locking up but I believe it was
> mainly due to ogg123. My version of vorbis would core dump when it tried 
> to play a .ogg file so I upgraded it as well as upgraded to Gcompris
> 1.00Pre3. I'll send you the output of "gdb -c core gcompris" if it
> re-occurs frequently but I believe the problem was with my vorbis
> version. Anyways thank-you very much for volunteering your time and
> skills, it has made a huge difference. For more info on our school
> district as well as our long term plans:
> 
> www.sd73.bc.ca
> www.sd73.bc.ca/tux
> 
> Thanks again :)
> 
>   _____________________________________________________
>  | John Cuzzola               |                        |
>  |  jcuzzola at sd73.bc.ca       | 1383-9th Avenue        |
>  |  System Analyst/Programmer | Kamloops, BC  V2C 3X7  |
>  |  School District #73       | Phone:  (250) 374-0679 |
>   -----------------------------------------------------
>     ... In God we Trust, all others must show proper
>                       identification ...
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> > Bruno.
> > 
> > John Cuzzola wrote:
> > 
> > >>For the english sounds, I am sory but due to some error on my side, I 
> > >>found out that I lost them. Only letters and number are in english, 
> > >>other words are in french.
> > >>I plan to reenter them but I will need to re-record my wife probably 
> > >>next week.
> > >>
> > >
> > >*** No problem - it is not vital .. 
> > >
> > >>In the meantime, teach them french directly ;-)
> > >>
> > >
> > >*** Actually we do ... We have about 6 schools as French Emersion so they
> > >most definitely appreciate the French language capibilities of
> > >gcompris. Thanks again for your efforts. If I could trouble you for one
> > >quick thing..Could you please send me the output of 
> > >
> > >ldd gcompris
> > >
> > >on one of your machines so I can compare your shared library versions with
> > >mine (We have gcompris 1.00Pre3)...
> > >
> > >Thanks:)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > >>Bruno.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>John Cuzzola wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Hi there,
> > >>>I've successfully downloaded and compiled Gcompris 1.00 pre-release
> > >>>3. However the language is French even though I installed the English
> > >>>sound package. Comparing the english and french sounds files it looks like
> > >>>they are exactly the same. 
> > >>>
> > >>>Thanks for your work with the software .. We are a large school district
> > >>>in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (15000 students) and we're
> > >>>converting all our Window's machines to Linux. The kid's love it :)
> > >>>
> > >>> _____________________________________________________
> > >>>| John Cuzzola               |                        |
> > >>>|  jcuzzola at sd73.bc.ca       | 1383-9th Avenue        |
> > >>>|  System Analyst/Programmer | Kamloops, BC  V2C 3X7  |
> > >>>|  School District #73       | Phone:  (250) 374-0679 |
> > >>> -----------------------------------------------------
> > >>>   ... In God we Trust, all others must show proper
> > >>>                     identification ...
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
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