Feedback needed with Impress 3D OpenGL transitions on Mac OS X
With the recent changes
Thorsten Behrens did (he fixed the bad color space with the cairo canvas helper),
the 3D OpenGL transitions are now working correctly with OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. Of course, there is probably some additional work before to consider the implementation as "ok", but at least people can test them.
For the adventurous, there is an archive available(Mac Intel only, you use it at your own risks) there (search for INTEL -> DEV300_m42_ogltrans4mac -> en-US)
Please read
this mail for further information, and don't forget to provide feedback and/or file issues assigned to me if ever you find problems.
UPDATE : anybody interested to help me can have a look on the wiki page I created for the occasion.
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Mac OS X Porting & OpenGL transitions with ImpressLast but not least, a big thank you to
Mox Soini(cairo implementation),
Radek Dulik (most of the OpenGL thing'ry on OpenOffice.org for Linux) and
Thorsten Behrens(Impress Expert) for his help.
To be continued ... (I hope students working on new 3D transitions will be happy :) )
Libellés : aqua, High Tech, Impress, Mac OS X, OpenGL, OpenOffice
Some news from Education Project
This Saturday, The
OpenOffice.org Education Project will be represented at
Besancon (France), for the
Libre en fete fest,
Frédéric Diaz,
Nicolas Jeudy and myself will be glad to meet you. See you !!
Next week, I'll attend
Les Rencontres de l'Orme ,
Marseille, France, 24th to 26th March, where we will work with
Sesamath, and I'll present
EducOOo, the current actions in progress, and how to join and contribute to the
Education Project, or another
OpenOffice.org Project, of course.
By the 25th evening, there will be a second event in Marseille, since I'm invited at the
Equitable Cafe . I'm impatient to meet all these guys, who mostly work for non profit associations (like EducOOo), and silently contribute to Free software use.
Yet the same week, the
27th March exactly, I'll travel until
Nantes to meet the students and the professor from Ecole Centrale Nantes, for the final presentation of the tasks the students did with us. Thanks to
Morgan Magnin, their professor who has invited me.
In the list of the feature the students worked for, we have :
- colored pen
- change the pen size, shape and so on
- eraser
- keep the changes
For further information, see the
Ecole Centrale Nantes dedicated wiki page and the screenshots
there (french, sorry).
Once I'll have found more time, I'll say some words about the next events I'll attend. Will be
InterTice and
Solutions Linux, both in
Paris, France
The bad thing in all of that, is I'll miss
Sonny Piers, who is invited to present the
Mozilla Project in my own school, means at
UTBM. Too bad :-/ (I hope I'll meet him soon though)
But that's not all : more than 10 students recently applied for projects. The first one was
Pierre Pasteau( from Epitech Paris), and since some times, there is an intensive work in progress. Recently
4 students from Seneca College applied for subjects we proposed. In particular, they will for on:
- imagine, and why not implement new 3D OpenGL transition(s) (
Jerry Tak-Wah-Pau);
- python26 migration in OOo sources (
Ladan Zahiroleslam;
- make Impress Master copyable (
Bartosz Barcicki )
- Understand the Impress Application (
Wang Frederick)
Other students in the class may choose other projects through the one we propose (see the lists below).
As you can see, we have oriented
several projects we proposed on Impress Improvement Thorsten Behrens, Graphics and Impress expert, and whom I publically say one more time a big
thank you, was so kind to be present very often on the #education.openoffice.org channel. His skills are extremely helpfull for us, and the students appreciate him a lot.
It would be great to see other devs, from e.g. other OOo applications (Calc e.g. ) join the channel, and answer/help the students.
Here is the Fun with Open Source: everybody learns form each other, and all progress. I must admit, since I'm helping students, I did a lot of progress with OOo source code understanding.
If you want to know more, e.g. have a look at the list on the wiki:
- improve Impress only list- the full listTo be continued ... """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the
EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
Libellés : Centrale Nantes, Education Project, EducOOo, Equitable Cafe, High Tech, ORME, Sesamath, Teaching OpenSource
