Re: GCompris project - raw video

Great! Thanks for the feedback, Paul.

We’ll certainly change 'community' to ’team', no problem.
I can also say "well over 50 languages" if I don’t hear more before we go public.

Happy summer,

Frances

> On 22 Jul 2022, at 09:36, Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 21 July 2022 13:25:21 CEST Frances Tait wrote:
>> Hi Paul et al,
> 
> Hello Frances!
> 
>> I hope you’re all enjoying the summer and not suffering too much from
>> excessive heat.
>> 
>> You should be able to access the video interview we made with Bruno, edited
>> down, and with an intro from Robert, here:
>> 
>> https://nextcloud.kdab.com/s/9fbSKN9rWztsiEa
>> <https://nextcloud.kdab.com/s/9fbSKN9rWztsiEa>
>> 
>> It’s currently getting worked on for sound improvement by one of KDAB’s
>> providers, who may also help us improve it in other visual ways.
> 
> Well, it already looks really, really good. Congrats to everybody who worked 
> on this.
> 
>> We like the content a lot, but would of course want your feedback before
>> releasing it - current deadline is late September.
>> 
>> Below is my suggested "About this video" text - written to more-or-less
>> match the way KDAB videos are described on our youtube channel
>> <https://www.youtube.com/c/KDABtv/playlists>, (it’ll go int our new
>> 'Insights' playlist there). Let me know if I got anything wrong here :-)
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Frances
>> 
>> Video Description
>> In this video for our 'Insights' series, we talk to Bruno Coudoin, the
>> creator and founder of GCompris software, about what inspired him and how
>> GCompris became so successful.
>> 
>> About GCompris
>> GCompris is a free and open source, high quality, educational software suite
>> for kids aged 2 – 10, that’s built with Qt. It was originally written in C
>> and Python using the GTK+ widget toolkit, but a rewrite in C++ and QML
>> using the Qt widget toolkit was initiated by Bruno Coudoin in 2014.
>> 
>> GCompris is used as a teaching aid worldwide. It is available in more than
>> 50 languages and has global users estimated to be in the millions.
> 
> It may have support for more languages nowadays, but Johnny, Timothée and 
> Emmanuel will be able to fill you in better in that regard.
> 
>> With its
>> multiple datasets, GCompris Activities can be adjusted to fit student’s
>> learning needs, and fitted into their existing lesson plans, individually
>> or in groups.
>> 
>> Aside from its benefit as an addition to any teaching curriculum, GCompris
>> is proven to be especially helpful for children with learning difficulties
>> or neurological differences. Its content is less violent, quieter, and free
>> from distractions like pop-ups or advertisements.
>> https://gcompris.net/index-en.html
>> 
>> These days, GCompris is a project under the umbrella of KDE, a long-term
>> partner of KDAB.
>> 
>> About KDE
>> KDE is an international team supporting the cooperative development and
>> distribution of Free, Open Source Software for desktop and portable
>> computing: https://kde.org/
> 
> Can we change "team" for "community"? That is how we usually refer to KDE.
> 
> From my point of view, that is it with regard to tweaks. I am sure the 
> GCompris team will have some helpful corrections.
> 
> This is a really nice video and I look forward to promoting it when it goes 
> live. Well done all involved!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
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