[gcompris-devel] Ideas to improve Gcompris

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le mercredi 16 septembre 2009 à 20:48 -0300, Sérgio Durigan Júnior a
écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> First, I would like to introduce myself.  I am a student at a
> Brazilian University (Unicamp), attending a graduation course entitled
> "Communitary Informatics".  Me and other 2 fellows are interested in
> contributing to Gcompris.  After some discussion about what would be a
> good thing to do in three months of work (it's kind of a minimal
> "Summer of Code"), we came up with basically three ideas:

Hi, 

Welcome in the little GCompris community.

> 1) Implement (or improve, if it already exists) support in the program
> in order to be better used by colorblind people.  It would take some
> time to research and decide how to do it, but we think it's feasible.

Yes please do. On the same topic a high contrast version for people
having a very poor sight could be a godd option as well.
 
> 2) Implement other games.  This is the most "superficial" idea (for
> now), we would have to discuss and see what kind of new games we'd
> implement.

We have a page on our wiki that we use to report missing or requested
activities. Hum, I have no web access by now, updating my Ubuntu, I
can't provide you the link.

Also please note that all new development must be done on the
gcomprixogoo branch which will be the next major version numbered 8.5.
You will also find on the wiki how to grab this branch.

> 3) Integrate Gcompris with Greenfoot (http://www.greenfoot.org/),
> enabling the users to run the games (see http://greenfootgallery.org/
> for example) written in this environment.  At first, we don't think
> that it would be necessary to integrate Greenfoot's API with Gcompris,
> since (we believe) most of the kids using Gcompris wouldn't know how
> to create the games.  We are also studying Greenfoot to see if this
> option is really feasible, so there's a chance that we discard this
> idea later.

Hum, I don't see how the Java world and the GCompris world could
positively be aranged to benefit from each other.

> Anyway, given the options above, we would like to know from Gcompris
> community:  what did you like?  Of course, new ideas (or variations of
> the ideas listed above) are very much welcome :-).

We are please to see you there. Based on my feedback, let us know what
your plans are and don't hesitate to ask questions here.

Bruno.