Little ClassRoom about warnings
Today, and because of the proximity of the holidays, we did a little ClassRoom with Rakesh, about the current effort
wae4binfilter.
The origin of the effort, what sorts of warnings we can encounter, and how solve them, and retain the lesson for the future code we'll write.
The log, including several relevant links, is available =>
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Education Project on the wiki=> If you are willing to present a projet, or drive a ClassRoom with us, please contact me.
Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the Logo
Libellés : ClassRoom, development, Education, effort, OpenOffice
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)ActivityB1) 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 studentsCurrently, 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.
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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
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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 resourcesTo 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) VisibilityEducation 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 pageWe 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 contactsSeveral 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 websiteThis 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 !""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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
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To much of mails, I'll answer tomorrow. Yesterday, I did some progress with the Apple Remote: added new constants, better vision of all the thing. But I still don't see all the messages I should in the terminal. A lot remains to do.
Today, I worked with
Rakesh Pandit on the wae4binfilter01 cws. Since his SCA is accepted, he was so kind to provide a lot of patches (28!), I was glad to commit for him. Currently, all current patches have been commited, and only a little number of uninitialized cases are remaining. Yet to fix some complicated cases, but I expect to complete wae4binfilter01 by tomorrow or so. Time to find a QA resp :-) (volunteers ? )
wae4binfilter02 will probably be about bad Ctors initializations.
Good news:
Pierre Pasteau, a student from
Epitech (Paris) proposed to contribute to OpenOffice.org for 5 months (until mid december exactly), as an Application for his cursus. This is not completely sure, but the last remaining thing I have to do is sign and return the convention, and we can go. Yet some administrative points to be verified before that. I'll provide further information asap.
Started a wiki page about the
first task (3 are scheduled). To be continued.
Last but not least,
Raphael Bircher proposed some update for the Education Project website. Thanks to Raphael, and thanks to all, who are doing a lot for the
Education Project.
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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 : development, Education, effort, OpenOffice
EducOOo
Pour ceux qui souhaitent aider le projet
OpenOffice.org Education, nous avons cree une association de type "loi 1901".
Le site est en cours de construction, soyez indulgents ;-)
Plus d'informations sur
EducOO.org et sur
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Education Project on the wiki=> If you are willing to present a projet, or drive a ClassRoom with us, please contact me.
Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the Logo
Libellés : Education, EducOOo, OpenOffice
