[GCompris-devel] GCompris call for translation

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi,

As you have seen we released the first GCompris version 2 weeks ago. To 
our pleasure it has been very well received by Android users.

It took the 1st place in the top new free education application in the 
French store. It is true that GCompris is very popular in France amongst 
parents and teachers. We got several reports from teachers telling us 
that this is their application of choice in their classroom. Those using 
iPads are now waiting after us and I announced an iPad version for 
September.

It turns out that being able to deliver the same application on all 
mobile and desktops platforms will be a major feature as teachers are 
moving from school to school and will be sure by betting on GCompris 
that it will be available whatever the equipment of their next school.

Beside France, we have significant numbers showing an interest in 
GCompris in Switzerland, India, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Saudi 
Arabia, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Mexico, 
Indonesia, Russia.

On the technical side, I have been personally very impressed by the low 
number of issues raised considering this is our first release. Before 
starting again on integrating new activities, we plan to ship a 
maintenance release the February 2nd, after the Fosdem (BTW, I'll 
present GCompris there).

This is a good opportunity to update or add support for new languages.

As we cannot still have a stable branch on KDE i18n until we are in 
extragear, we string freeze our master branch and will create a devel 
branch.

Bruno.