GCompris, educational software for the kids
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3: <a href="/people/7">Bruno Coudoin</a>
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10: What is GCompris ?</h2>
11: <p><em>Author(s): Bruno Coudoin</em></p>
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19: <strong>GCompris is an educational software which propose different activities to kids from 2 to 10.</strong>
20: <a href="/uploadfiles/54" title="gcompris flyers">File in PDF</a>
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22: Some activities are game oriented, but always educational. You will find some activities in the following topics:
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26: <li>computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
27: <li>algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
28: <li>science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, ...
29: <li>geography: place the country on the map
30: <li>games: chess, memory, ...
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32: <li>reading: reading practice
33: <li>other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, ...
34: </ul><p>All in all, gcompris proposes more than 50 activities and it continues
35: to evolves. gcompris is a free software, you have the possibility to adapt
36: it to your needs or to improve it, and, why not, to share your work with
37: the kids of all the world.</p>
38: Web site</h2>
39: <p>You will find the latest information concerning gcompris on the web site <a href="http://gcompris.net" title="gcompris.net" class="external">http://gcompris.net</a>.</p>
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41: Awards</h2>
42: <p>gcompris won the education trophee at <a href="http://www.tropheesdulibre.org" title="www.tropheesdulibre.org" class="external">the trophee du libre that
43: took place last friday in soisson france the 24 May 2003</a>.</p>
44: License</h2>
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46: <p>This software is distributed under the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html" class="external">GPL License</a>. It's an official GNU package <a href="http://www.gnu.org/" class="external">GNU</a>. GCompris works on GNU/Linux, MacOSX, Windows
47: and other Unix version.</p>
48: <p>GCompris is provided WITHOUT ANY WARANTIES. It's a free software, you are
49: welcome to redistribute it under the term of the GPL licence.</p>
50: Some screenshots</h2>
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52: <p>In gcompris, a special attention is made to keep the graphisms pleasant
53: and to the user interface simplicity. While simple, gcompris is very addictive
54: for the kids, even the smallest. The kid can discover the activities alone,
55: but the help of a parent or teacher can be needed to help the kid go further.</p>
56: <p>You can see all the screenshots for <a href="http://ofset.sf.net/gcompris/boards/_en.html" class="external">all the activities</a></p>
57: Minimum system</h2>
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59: <p>gcompris runs fine on the PC 233MHz with 64MB of memory. It needs 30MB
60: of disk space. gcompris can be used on smaller configuration by using the
61: light client technology used with GNU/Linux (X-Terminals).</p>
62: They talk about us...</h2>
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64: <li>ITworld: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_desktop/02212002/" class="external">Defeat the Windows Monopoly</a>, Teach Your Kids Linux
65: <li><a href="schoolhttp://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&documentID=2074&parent=chapter&preChapterID=0-452-470">A case study from a Slovak</a>
66: <li>Use of gcompris in a <a href="http://www.nccintegrared.org/eventos/antigua2003/familia/" class="external">nursery school in Extremadura (Spain)</a>
67: <li>Using gcompris <a href="http://www.lilit.be/articles.php?article=linuxalamaternelle" class="external">in a belgium school</a>
68: <li>Using gcompris <a href="http://claudius.ce.uniroma2.it/OpenSourceScuola/#cont" class="external">in an Italian school</a>. In Italy again <a href="http://claudius.ce.uniroma2.it/OpenSourceScuola/">a documentation of gcompris</a>.
69: <li>Using gcompris <a href="http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&documentID=2074&parent=chapter&preChapterID=0-452-470" class="external">in a Slovak school</a>
70: <li>In April 2002, <a href="http://ofset.sourceforge.net/gcompris/docs/article_gcompris-fr.html" class="external">an article in French</a> as been published in Linux Magazine France.
71: <li>To know more on Ofset and gcompris : <a href="http://www.midenews.com/fr/presse/article/lire/?id=133" class="external"> (In French) Free software from Ofset supported by the UNESCO</a>
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73: </ul>Other project of interest</h2>
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75: <li><a href="http://childsplay.sf.net/" class="external">Childsplay</a> has a similar approach of gcompris but it's based on the Python language and the pygame library (SDL based). It works on GNU/Linux and Windows
76: <li>The <a href="http://edu.kde.org/" class="external">KDE Edutainment Project</a>: high-quality educational software for the K Desktop Environment
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