HI, this second mail is a mistake. The previous one is the good one. Sorry.
Saludos 2014-02-19 13:43 GMT+01:00 Agustin <tosca...@gmail.com>: > Hi Bruno, > > I am Agustin Benito, KDE eV Treasurer. > > Thanks for providing us the information around the income that GConpris > generates. We do not have a clear policy about this topic. I do not see a > major problem in this area. > > We have a wide variety of different "business models" used by KDE > developers to > generate income. Your experience will help us to provide better answers to > KDE > developers in the future in this area. > > > > > > As a community project, it was part of the Gnome community, and the Gtk+ > > version will still be there until the Qt version is on par. We got > > numerous contributors coming from Gnome, especially the translation team > > who does an excellent job. We also managed individual contributors all > > over the years. Many come, create an activity and leave when their > > children does not use GCompris anymore. I usually integrate the > > contributions and handle the maintenance of this code. At some point in > > time there as been other commiters and it was working fine. > > > > I am also a GSoC mentor since 2011 under the Gnome umbrella. I really > > appreciated doing that. It helps the project, the community, the student > > and myself as I like to share my knowledge. For this year I registered > > GCompris as an independent organization since I expect to get students > > working on the new Qt Quick version. Of course, if we work together, I > > will propose next year GCompris under the Kde umbrella. > > > > Enough history, lets talk about our future. > > > > Nowadays, more and more users are requiring us a tablet version. By far, > > Gtk+ is not ready in this area . After reviewing different > > possibilities, I had HTML5 and Qt Quick on my short list. I made a test > > and ported a GCompris activity in HTML5 and a few one in Qt Quick to be > > sure to make a wise decision. > > > > I am happy to tell you that I have been more than surprised by the ease > > of development and the quality of the code I wrote in Qt Quick. Yes it > > does not run on the web but for GCompris there are many reasons to stay > > off the web anyway. > > > > So I have now published a beta version in Qt Quick and used it to > > announce the world that I bet the future of GCompris on it. It has been > > well received in the GCompris community. Of course it deceived the Gnome > > team and I am sad for them but I had to take this drastic decision to > > make sure GCompris stay relevant in the years to come. > > > > On the development side, after looking at creating a compatibility layer > > to run old GCompris activities on a new Qt Quick framework. It proved to > > be difficult and the the result would be ugly in term of code and in > > term of user experience. I decided to go the hard way and to make a full > > rewrite. We will reuse the graphic, sound, voices, data and of course > > the concept of each activity of the Gtk+ version to create the new one. > > I expect the port to last one or two years. > > > > So this is a brain new project with just a demonstrator of only 4 > > activities on 140. I think it is a good time frame for GCompris to join > > the Kde community for different reasons: > > > > - We need the best skills to create a solid framework > > - This is easier to jump on a new project and more interesting for a new > > contributor > > - Wehave no on line development tools to migrate > > > > I hope my request did raise your interest and I'll be please to answer > > your questions. > > > > Regards, > > > > Bruno. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kde-community mailing list > > kde-community@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > > -- > Agustin > tosca...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > -- Agustín Benito Bethencourt Profile: http://es.linkedin.com/in/toscalix Twitter/identi.ca: @toscalix
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