News GCompris

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi,

Some news on the GCompris front. The Qt Quick port is going fine, we 
ported 86 activities on the 140 of the Gtk+ version. We are currently 
ready for an official version, first on Android. The project is now well 
integrated in the KDE development platform, including the translation 
teams. A translation call has been done with a planned release for the 
24th of December if we can get enough translations.

I take this opportunity to mention here our crowd funding project.

Currently the graphics are one of the weakest part of GCompris, as they 
were mostly done by the developers, using free graphics assets and 
sparse graphic artist contributions.

To address this problem, we found Timothée Giet, a talented graphic 
artist interested in working on a complete graphics redesign.  He is a 
long standing Free-Software contributor, active member of the Krita team 
and so part of the KDE community. Making new graphics for more than 100 
activities is a big work, so we need your help to achieve this goal.

The project is not only about creating new background images but 
consists in a whole graphical rework. At first a graphic charter will be 
defined as none exists for now in GCompris. This will drive the project 
towards a unified style that it lacks today An emphasis will be done on 
usability, making sure the children find their way easily in each activity.

If you want to help, please consider making a donation and don’t forget 
to share this news in your community.

The campain on Indiegogo:
http://igg.me/at/gcompris-unified-graphics%20

Bruno.