[Tux4kids-commits] r1577 - tuxmath/people/dbruce

[David Bruce]

Author: dbruce-guest
Date: 2009-10-10 01:04:50 +0000 (Sat, 10 Oct 2009)
New Revision: 1577

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   tuxmath/people/dbruce/spi_text
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blurb for SPI website entry for our project

Added: tuxmath/people/dbruce/spi_text
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+Tux4Kids (http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org) is a volunteer project dedicated to creating fun and educational software for children.  The project was started over ten years ago and currently maintains and develops three software programs. The programs take their name from Tux, the Linux mascot.
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+Tux Paint (http://www.tuxpaint.org) is an award-winning and widely used artistic graphics program. Tux Paint is enjoyable for everyone from the youngest children capable of using computers up through adults. Tux Math is a video game-style math drill program.  It covers basic math operations up through topics such as negative numbers, factoring, and order-of-operations exercises.  Tux Typing offers word typing practice in the setting of two video game-type activities, as well as phrase and sentence typing for older students. Numerous word lists and finger exercises in multiple languages are included.
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+All three programs are written in C and utilize the SDL multimedia libraries.  They are developed primarily for Linux and Unix-based Free Software platforms, but also run on the proprietary systems that most children will actually encounter in schools.  The Tux4Kids programs are included in all major GNU/Linux desktop distributions, as well as non-Linux Free Software collections such as the FreeBSD Ports Collection and the MacPorts project for OS-X.
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+Similarly, all three programs emphasize internationalization/localization using the standard GNU gettext library. In particular, Tux Paint is one of the most widely translated children's software programs in existence.
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+Tux4Kids has participated in Google's Summer of Code in 2008 and 2009, during which 13 university students successfully completed summer internships while contributing to the software.
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+The goal of Tux4Kids is education on several levels - from young children learning the alphabet, to student programmers gaining coding experience, to parents and teachers becoming aware of the benefits of Free Software.
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