Encarta type Encyclopedia for linux

What kind of stuff are you posting??

PM Me if I can be of assistance.

[comtux]

Kids game builder

I will try to use this to build educational kids games for our encarta like appt.

http://cogengine.sourceforge.net/
The Cog Engine Project is a software suite aimed at enabling children to create their own video games without requiring any programming experience. Users can create adventure games using photos they take, or drawings they make.

PYPANDA
A simple application that streams webcam images from the San Diego Zoo Panda Cam.
Trying to find the src so i can mod it to work with everything below or build my own.

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandas/pandacam/
Live Panda
Apes
Elephant
Polar Bear
Cams

http://dsc.discovery.com/cams/cams.htm
Live Penguin
Looking into the sun
Mexico City's Volcano
Squid
cams


http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/
Amazon River Fish Cam
Backyard Cam
Black Footed Ferret Cam
Construction Cam
Elephant Cams
Ferret Cam
Flamingo Cam
Gharial Cam
Giraffe Cam
Gorilla Cam
Micronesian kingfisher Cam
MicroTheatre Cam
Naked Mole-Rat Cam
Octopus Cam
Panda Cams
Think Tank Cam
Tiger Cams

http://zoocam.ent.iastate.edu/
Streaming Insect Cam

http://www.zooweb.com/links/dir.asp?catid=147
All kinds of cams

http://www.cmzoo.org/zoocam.html
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO GiraffeCam

Dam there is alot of good stuff online if we keep this up someone is going to be pissed that an opensource appt better than there own was built.

[comtux]

http://magnatune.com/

The music is free to download and listen to and use in your opensource projects as long as you do not charge for it.
Just select the kinda music you like from the home page and when you find something you would like to download just click on license and select educational licenses and you can download the music for free and use it in your os projects

http://gcompris.free.fr/

GCompris is an educational game which propose different activities to kids from 2 to 10

Some activities are game oriented, but always educational. You will find some activities in the following topics:
# computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...

# algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...

# science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, ...

# geography: place the country on the map

# games: chess, memory, ...

# reading: reading practice

# other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, ...

All in all, gcompris proposes more than 50 activities and it continues to evolves. gcompris is a free software, you have the possibility to adapt it to your needs or to improve it, and, why not, to share your work with the kids of all the world.

[maccorin]

hmmm... my question about what exactly you were implementing was exactly that "what is an MS Encarta llike app?". I read MS Encarta as just Encarta... I have to assume MS Encarta is different then the encyclopedias... maybe an "online" (ie... computer) version?


That cogengine link looks quite interesting, similar in nature to my current project, although mine will require programming... and isn't for web games.

Sorry for giving you shit about flash... i just had to