Education Project 8 months after ...
8 months already, since Luis Suarez Potts invited me to join Education Project. Like Sankarshan suggested me, it's time to present some figures.
So, what's new ?
A) Membership
The Education Project now counts 64 members (was 13 members 8 months ago), counts two mailing lists, the most active is the dev@education.openoffice.org
B)Activity
B1) IRC channel ( #education.openoffice.org, irc.freenode.net )
Very active people are Rakesh Pandit, Pierre Pasteau, Andreas Mantke (from Portable OpenOffice.org), Raphael Bircher (from de project). Other regular contributors are Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, Valentin Janiaut, Cedric Bosdonnat, Stephane Bonhomme ... etc
B2) French side
On the francophone side, we have a lot of very active contributors, like Nicolas Jeudy, Fred Diaz, Fred Ollivier, Remi Boulle, Mathieu Lalanne, Guy Veyssiere, Francois Beuraud, .. and a lot of other.
B3) on the Wiki
- improved Education Project Wiki page
- we propose several applications for students. See: the effort
- ClassRooms : dedicated development topics are being discussed on IRC, and logs are collected, for an asynchronous use. IRC is the most simple compromise for people who don't have a reliable network.
We used intensively the wiki, and are proud to say that great Sun developers like Philipp Lohmann and Mathias Bauer, or Christian Lohmaier, a volunteer, extremely precious for the OpenOffice.org Community, contributed.
C) Working with students
Currently, there are several applications where students are involved.
We cannot start with complicated applications, because we decided to create progressive documentation.
As example, OpenOffice.org Education Project created -sort of- partnership with Epitech ( Paris, France). A student from Epitech, Pierre Pasteau, started a 6 month application (until end december 2008). 3 tasks will be proposed. In meantime, Franck Schonheit , proposed to help. Very kind from him.
- migrate mozilla 1.7.5 to seamonkey 1.1.x
As you can see, we try to define objective to be validated for every application. We try to log everything for the community, thus next student will be able to select what they need to solve their next problems
- make the uno-skeletonmaker tool templatable (application proposed by Cedric Bosdonnat)
+ a 3rd task, e.g. fixing a starmath bug, with Thomas Lange help.
Other remarkable contribution from Rakesh Pandit, who is a regular contributor, sending patches and working hard. We worked on wae4binfilter01 together (close to complete), and we will continue for wae4binfilter some times.
The main objective of Rakesh, is to contribute for starmath tasks (like issue 972 I didn't manage to work on yet, due to lack of free time )
D) Improved resources
To find resources more easely, an association has been created, called EducOOo. The idea is to be able to receive donations and contributions legaly.
To avoid mistakes, we asked Noel Debarle, from Sesamath, to join the EducOOo association Council, and help us.
E) Visibility
Education Project was present at the following events :
-Solution Linux Expo (Paris France),
- FOSDEM 2008 (Bruxelles, Belgie),
- Live eTic (Montpellier, France),
- RMLL 2008 (Mont de Marsan France),
- GoOOCon2008 (Prague Czech Rep.),
- Rencontres de l'Orme (Marseille, France),
- Salon des Ressources Educatives (Besancon , France)
Last but not least, Louis Suarez Potts will represent us at OOoCon 2008 (Beiijin, China)
Thanks to all the people who made this possible !!
France only (but other countries can copy easely).
During RMML ( Mont de Marsan, France), we created a group of Associations around Education, like GNU Edu Ofset ( http://www.ofset.org/it ), Kolekti ( http://www.kolekti.org/ ), Edulibre (http://www.edulibre.org/ ), and some other. The idea is to work and help us together. An important event is scheduled in september, and I'll post further information asap.
Of course, to avoid misunderstanding, we only work for pedagogical content, and redirect everything about OpenOffice.org use to fr.openoffice.org project.
Top 5 of the todo :
1) Find more resources
Improve the Team : We need you !!
Other possibility : donations are welcome : we can provide our IBAN on demand
2) improve the practice wiki page
We certainly can improve the efficiency of the content. The task is open, and any feedback is welcome :)
3) improve the synergy with Sun devs
Obviously, something is happening about Education, but there is no coordination with Education Project. I trust Louis to find the best solution soon :)
4) Improve the Education Project visibility through local regional contacts
Several actions should be scheduled, like improve the mailing list activity, organize events in some schools or important official events .. and so on
5) Improve our website
This is work in progress. Thanks to Raphael Bircher/, who did a nice work.
=> to be continued :)
As you can see, this is an extremely promising project and we any contributor is welcome.
Thanks a lot to all, and let's continue !
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Education Project on the wiki
EducOO.org blog (french)
Many thanks to Ben Bois , author of the Education Project Logo
Libellés : Education, High-Tech, OpenOffice, School
publié par ericb @ lundi, juillet 21, 2008
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