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`GCompris <http://gcompris.net>`_
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Presentation
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`GCompris <http://gcompris.net>`_ is a high quality educational software suite
comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the
activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being
developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can use it as you
wish, adapt it to your own needs, improve it, and, most importantly, share it
with everyone.

This version is a full rewrite of GCompris using the QtQuick technology. It is
developed within the `KDE community <https://www.kde.org>`_ and is part of the
`GNU Project <https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-software-gcompris.en.html>`_.

Goal
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There are many simple activities dedicated to children on any platforms,
desktops, web and tablets. When they exist, they are hard to find and request
the teacher or parent to manage a lot of independant small tools.

GCompris is an educational suite of activities all accessible from a single
user interface. It provides a unique user interface for all its activities.

How
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GCompris is designed in a way that it is easy to add new activities to it. The
activity is free to implement the game scheme it wants. The status bar is a
common facility provided to the activities.

GCompris provides some tools to let teacher/educator to easily add activities
to GCompris.

About You
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You can help by:

* Creating new activities.
* Providing fancy graphics to incorporate as icons or backgrounds.
* Translating GCompris.
* Just giving your ideas.

Get more information on our `developer's wiki
<http://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner>`_.

