Maintaining Free Software for Kids - Video

Timothée Giet and Johnny Jazeix are currently Co-Maintainers of the GCompris project. They took these roles not long after GCompris was re-written in Qt by its founder, Bruno Coudoin. In this video, KDAB talks to them about their involvement and some of the technical challenges they have encountered.

00:00 Intro
06:24 Managing and sharing tasks
10:17 Contributing in different languages
12:03 Technical Challenges - incl. Qt 6
14:39 Graphic design and UX leader - what's involved?
17:29 Contributing graphic designs
21:46 Free software tools vs proprietary
23:54 GCompris evolution
26:29 Stories - how GCompris has helped.

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 multiple languages and has global users estimated to be in the millions. With its multiple datasets, GCompris Activities can be adjusted to fit pupil’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 non violent, quieter, and free from distractions like pop-ups or advertisements. It has also been designed to be non-addictive. https://gcompris.net/index-en.html
GCompris is a project under the umbrella of KDE, a long-term partner of KDAB.

Links
The Story of GCompris Part 1: https://youtu.be/hGldNGDg56o

GCompris: https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html
Download GCompris: https://gcompris.net/downloads-en.html
Contribute to GCompris: https://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner
Help support GCompris on Patreon: https://gcompris.net/donate-en.html
KDE: https://kde.org/
Qt: https://www.qt.io/
QtQuick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_Quick
IRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
GTK: https://www.gtk.org/
Gnome: https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/
Python: https://www.python.org/
Google Summer of Code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

About KDE
KDE is an international community supporting the cooperative development and distribution of Free, Open Source Software for desktop and portable computing: https://kde.org/