next Education Project IRC meeting
Author
Ben Bois Next Education project IRC meeting is scheduled tomorrow
Friday 30th of November, 14:00 UTC or 15:00 CET (Paris Hamburg) or 11:00 pm Japan (Tokyo)All people (developers, students, teachers, ... contributors) interested in OpenOffice.org Education project, are welcome :-)
More informations :
Education project IRC Meetings page
Ideas for Education project
Author
Ben Bois I met
Frederic Diaz and
Nicolas Jeudy this afternoon during
Sequanux annual general meeting. Was in Besancon (France).
I met a lot of people from Sequanux LUG, all contributing for free softwares, but in other domains.Very nice and interesting afternoon.
With Fred and Nicolas, we discussed about the Education project. What we agreed was:
- a better definition of Education project is needed
- Education project must attract all people from Education: 3 main categories appear.
- the tools can be divided in three categories too
Other point: we will define the role of local correspondant, probably on the wiki
Nicolas proposed to contribute for the Education website, and thus will help Raphael Bircher, to have something more attractive than the current mess.
Money and resources now: OpenOffice.org project does not help correctly volunteers. Thus, we have to find resources from ourselves.
To workaround that, we will create an association able to help the Education project, means able to receive money legally, and provide receipts to the companies or people helping us.
Concept is simple: autonomy, transparency, and simplicity.
The status are defined ( I prepared everything before), and I'll finalize asap.
Example of project we have in mind (concerning the 3rd category) : buy a machine (randomly: a Mac mini) , and ask for a student -studying in computing sciences- to:
- find a professor, already paid for managing the student. The prof will play the role of the intermediate, driving the student "locally".
- contribute for some feature, writing code, with objectives, and delays.
Just the content of the application will become "external" to the school.
If the code is correct, and the feature is ok (a validation step has to be defined), then the student will be able to keep the machine.
The estimated cost is approximatively around 600 euros per machine. And the applications (included in the student cursus) could concern features who will need 3 months (approximatively) of work. Of course, the main interest is pedagogical, and in return, we'll need reports and documentation about the work done.
I proposed this idea long time ago, and I strongly believe it will help the project to find new developers. At least it will be more efficient than "Advisory Boards" ;-)
Have a professor, is not enough, but will help a lot, and the role of Education project member will consist in help, to discover the structure of OpenOffice.org project, how is the code organized, connecting professor/students with the right developer, ...etc
... was just a draft of just one idea ;-)
Libellés : development, Education, Ideas
Be "Mac like" (1)
Florian Ponson, alias Tweek_ was so kind to propose us a new icon for the Mac OS X version of OpenOffice.org.
Note: the original icon is 512x512, means Leopard ready !
If you like it ( or not ), have opinion ... etc, please send us feedback at mac@porting.openoffice.org mailing list ( subscribe first on :
mac list )
And if you want to encourage or contact Florian, his website is
CocoaGrove.com Thank you very much, you did a great work Florian !
L'enigme d'Albert Einstein
French only, sorry
Juste pour le Fun, je suis tombe sur le site de
momo, et j'ai pas pu faire autrement que de relever le defi ;-)
Pour tester la version Aqua, j'ai reecrit l'enonce, que j'ai mis
ICISeconde enigme ( facile) : j'ai aussi ecrit un corrige complet et detaille que j'ai mis en ligne quelque part ( la reponse la plus rapide est en 7 etapes)
Bon, maintenant, passons a l'enigme des strip-teaseuses :)
Libellés : fun, maths
education.openoffice.org IRC channel is alive
Author
Ben Bois IRC channel #education.openoffice.org has been created and registered.Usefull informations:
- server is
irc.freenode.net- channel name is :
#education.openoffice.orgOther infos:
Secure mode is on, Guard has been set on , and ops are ericb2 (me ) , lgodard , rbircher and louis_to
If you are volunteers to be op, or simply want to discuss everything about Education project, please join and ask !!
See you soon !!
Education project needs you
Author :
Ben Bois
Websites : lamouette (French) and
pro-portfolio There is a project (not much activity since a while), exactly in
incubator projects who has been created two years ago.
Namely :
Education projectDiscussing with
Louis Suarez-Potts, I proposed him some ideas to make it grow, and suggestions, like
create a real bridge between OpenOffice.org development, and Education.
It's mainly question to welcome, help and involve students, professors from High Schools and/or Universities, but not only.
So much things have to be done, that everybody is welcomeCurrently, this is a big work in progress, and if you want to know more, please subscribe to
dev@education.openoffice.org mailing list
Louis was so enjoyed, that he proposed me to Co-Lead the project :)
BTW, what do you think about the logo Ben did ? Could be a neat logo for Education site, no ?
... and see you soon !!
Libellés : annoucement, Education, Logo
