[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of OFSET

[hilaire]

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Hilaire Fernandes <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: OFSET

>From our manifesto:

\"OFSET is a not for profit French international association by the law of 
1901. It
 has been set up in response to the slow development of free educational 
software.
 It will promote all the possible forms of development and localisations needed 
by
 the world wide education system. OFSET want to be very close to the
 philosophical aspirations of the FSF.\"
   
Again frrom our manifesto:


               \"3. The Charter

               The main objective of this organization is the development of a 
coherent set of
               free education softwares and it\'s opened to everyone willing to 
contribute. The
               needed competences are various as in any development project: 
realization of
               conceptual model, programming, documenting the developed 
softwares,
               translations of tutorials and programmers guides to help 
teachers developing
               softwares under the GNU/Linux system, artistic skills (graphic 
and sound), writing
               exercises for the developed softwares, testing software, 
promoting our work,... We
               may also need competences in legal domains. 

               To keep our work coherent with our philosophy we have set up a 
development
               Charter. Its goals is to insure the developments: 

                  1.follow the philosophy of the GNU project; 
                  2.use only free software development tools; 
                  3.are coherent and consistent, especially in the user 
interface domain; 
                  4.use - when appropriate - RAD tools. This point can 
eventually - and
                    waiting for substitute - be in contradiction with item 3 
but never with items 1
                    & 2. 

               The first idea is to insure every one can contribute to a 
development project of a
               free educational software, so we can\'t allow the use of non 
free development
               tools. The next idea is to encourage the use of development 
tools as Python +
               Gnome + Glade + Libglade so even not professional developers can 
contribute in
               major development. Last, we want the developed softwares to be 
coherent and
               consistent by using the best free technology: Gnome. 

               You will find a copy of the charter at the OFSET home page. \"


We have already developped software as DrGenius, GCompris, DrGeo. Two of them
are already GNU software (DrGeo and DrGenius)