[gcompris-devel] Thank you for gCompris

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le lundi 18 février 2008 à 02:28 +0000, psychcf a écrit :
> Hello bruno. I would like to tell you about how I used gCompris
> recently. I didn't know if it was appropriate to send this to the
> mailing list, so if you would like to re-post it be my guest.

Thanks, we are always pleased to know our work is used and appreciated.

> Anyways, I volenteered for a service project involving a local
> grouphome that helps autistic men over 20 years of age. I offered to
> donate 10 computers I recived from a local school district to them. On
> these computers I installed linux and gCompris. I gave a short demo on
> how to use the software and the operating system as well.
> 
> I would like to thank you as well as the development team for your
> efforts to write this software. I run my own open source project, and
> I understand how tedious certain tasks can be at times.
> 
> Keep up the good work!

This is surprising, I have been informed several times that GCompris is
used to help autistic persons. We are pleased of course but it poses a
little problem to us. We have no idea of what and how is GCompris used
by autistics. As we are constantly improving GCompris we may take
decisions that could hurt the way they use GCompris.

If you want to make sure GCompris will continue to serve well the
autistic persons, we need someone to document how our work is used in
this situation.

You can use our wiki or send a mail on our mailing list. This offer is
open to anybody using GCompris in a non usual way.

our wiki is at http://gcompris.net/wiki


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Bruno Coudoin
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