dimanche, mars 12, 2006

Please help them :-)

Since some times, several students from UTBM help Mac OS X port. Most of them are only in 2nd year (over 5) of the cursus.

Some are working for marketing/art project, other for code (vcl analyse).

About the second one, there is currently no existing description/documentation about vcl code, and the objective is to (first) describe (the essential part of) vcl code and (second) write the structure and organisation of this important OpenOffice.org module.

Doing some progress understanding vcl organisation, it was decided to follow Mac OS X native port, and try to understand what is happening.

The objective is to describe everything using simple words. Even for complicated things, it's most of the time possible to describe any situation with simple words.

I know how it's difficult to be productive with OpenOffice.org development, more true, how informations are difficult to find, but AFAIK, OpenOffice.org is a free software, and a community project....first

Everything, means reports and presentations will be made in english (great, I'll do some progress :-) ), and other professors of our School will help.

This project can never be finished, but this is not the most important. The most important is discover and contribute to the community.


They are ( names + respective nicknames on IRC ) :

Yann Bard ( Ybarb ) , Simon Lopez (slopez) , Gaelle Despoulain, Manuel Vonthron ( mvonthron) , Alexandre Mohr (amhor ), Edward Nys, Yannis Achour, and Maxime Petazzoni ( sam' )

Maybe you already see some of them ?