[gcompris-devel] Re: Wishes for 2003

[bruno]

Herman, not sure you have seen that hilaire from ofset is currently very
active in promoting a gcompris contest in order to port the EPI boards.

There is a wiki out there to help prepare it.
http://www.ofset.org/wiki/index.php/GCompris%20Board%20Contest


Herman, I wanted to thanks you for the original idea, whatever it
happens to it ;)

Bruno.


Le mer 08/01/2003 à 20:40, Herman Bruyninckx a écrit :
> On 8 Jan 2003, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > >  Maybe some focued advocacy actions towards a students
> > > public could be successful, especially if there is some price involved.
> > > I am willing to donate for example 100EUR for this purpose, and if other
> > > people join in a cash price of let's say 1000EUR in combination with
> > > lots of noise on the Linux channels could get the necessary interest :-)
> >
> > That's a great idea. Do you have an idea on how we could promote and
> > manage this ?
> 
> I think there are three steps:
> - think hard about what exactly we want to achieve by the contest.
> - prepare the website, the code and the press releases.
> - talk to the open source web press (international), the edudcational
>   groups (seul, ...), and the local school IT administrations (national)
>   about it.
> 
> The contest _could_ be split in several sub-categories: board
> implementations, overal design suggestions, implementation of generic
> infrastructure code. For the latter two, integration/cooperation with
> other projects would be a requirement.
> 
> [...]
> > Yes but we have a toolkit issue. Tuxpaint is an SDL application.
> >
> > Also, tuxpaint by itself is wellknown, well maintained and in this case,
> > it maybe better to keep its author improve its project.
> 
> Yes. But look at it this way: just as you have the KDE and Gnome
> projects that work on a "meta level" with respect to individual
> application projects, the area of educational games would benefit from
> such "standardisation/integration" effort for the common infrastructure
> of all simple games. After all, that's what open source is most suited
> for: sharing of infrastructure code and designs.
> 
> [...]
> > But for now, I personnaly prefer to stick to create more content in the
> > existing framework.
> Of course, the users are only interested in content, and it's exactly
> that content that is attracting attention to GCompris. But finding ways
> to simplify both content creation and portability would make the whole
> thing much easier for the maintainers. (In the long term :-)
> 
> Herman
> 
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