Portable OOo4Kids
Since I finally figured out what was wrong, we have
Portable OOo4Kids on Windows XP (SP3 mini). To understand more, I started from the version
Pierre-Yves Gosset a friend of mine from
Framasoft did, but I had to do a lot of modifications, I did some cleanup, and created new files, to obtain something clean.
As a beginning, I started with a french version, but that's very easy to create other locales.
Stay tuned ;-)Libellés : Education Project, EducOOo, fun, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Portable OOo4Kids
Recent OOo4Kids progress
Reading the
OOo4Kids recent changelogs, I see
Thomas and
Abdel did serious progress with the
OOo4Kids Sugarization !
Glad to see serious and brillant students contributing !! For the one who did not understand, OOo4Kids is a
product of the Education Project: everything we implement in OOo4Kids is something we can teach, and explain to the students. As you can see, more time goes and more we can change things, and this brings a real motivation to them.
From my side, I continued to work at the
new Writer assistant for OOo4Kids. Last thing I did was to define a value for the
SID_NEW_SW slot ID. Better read
the cookbook.
To be continued."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids ProjectMany thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the
EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
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Libellés : development, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Sugar, XO
OOo4Kids 0.5.1 available for download
A big THANK YOU to Ben Bois for his help and everything (building, website and more ...) => the link for the downloadChangelog : All versions:
* Fixed the silly Start Center bug with the white rectangle on right.
* Did more code cleanup in backingwindow.cxx (removed useless entries, and so on)
* The new Writer Assistant skeleton is in place. Missing: final implementation.
* Fixed a crash with Calc. Was due to the missing addins functions.
* Fixed a silly bug with addins : now, the Calc functions wizard no longer displays all the addins in "beginner" or "average" mode
Windows only:
* Fixed the sound issues in Impress: build are now made using the DirectX 9 SDK. Need feedback for the videos : usable ?
* Fixed the crash when the computer comes back from sleep. Added
Thorsten Behrens patch from the [http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=103464 issue 103464].
Linux only:
* new customizable look for the User Interface (generic plugin is now used, for performance reasons)
Libellés : annoucement, EducOOo, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
Probably no OOoCon 2009 for Education Project
Looking at the
current donations , an estimating the need to 600 euros (not to become rich, but just to pay travel + accomodations),
I will very probably not attend the OOoCon 2009. Final decision to come soon.
Two présentations were scheduled (see
Conference Schedule) :
- Present the Education Project
- OOo4Kids
Thanks anyway to all one who donated an maybe see you another time :)Libellés : development, OOo4Kids, OOoCon, OpenOffice
Education Project meeting: log available
Was IRC meeting today, for the
Education Project. We mostly welcomed new students, and made a point about the work in progress. I have seen some new nicknames on the channel :-)
Next week, we'll try to propose a list of ClassRooms.As usual the log is available on the wiki : the logNext meeting is scheduled the 22nd October, same hour. See you !!"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids ProjectMany thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the
EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
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Libellés : devel, development, Education Project, High-Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
Technorati (Google ?) punished me ...
Sometimes, we stick to some "mood" (maybe fashion is the right word )
It was the case with "Technorati" (like a lot of people, to be honest). In fact, in my case, I set up an account long time ago, and it was more by curiosity than by interest, that I never understood really. So I never care too much about that ... (+ I think something was broken in my config).
Recently, I had a look, and discovered I had comments, people I know who posted something, and some other information. Finaly, it was somewhat interesting.
And ... looking again at
the account today, I discovered that
my Technorati "Authority" is now "0"Lol :)
Who did that ? Of course, I have no idea about the rationale (means I don't know exactly how we can -suddenly- be NULL rated ?), but this happened. Probably not related but I was not kind with Google, in my previous blog entry. Who knows ... ;-)
Maybe it's time to change the blog for DotClear too !
... but I'm still wondering why Google forces people to use Java with Android :-)
Android OpenOffice.org Port ?
I read (
there ) "OpenOffice.org " didn't care about the Android port of OpenOffice.org
Nobody answered, so as developer, and to proof the opposite, and supposing it is possible, I proposed to start the port.
The idea will be to work with student, golden rule of the
OpenOffice.org Education Project. This means a new project will be proposed in the frame of the "Effort".
(see :
The Education Project Effort)
[update 1]
Follow up of the discussion on the french mailing lists (discuss and dev), what we know :- Androïd is a phone dedicated version for mobiles : little screen, not made for an UI like OOo does provide
- critical values for hardware : how many RAM, CPU frequency .. an so on
- (investigating)
[update 2] : after further investigations, I now know this is not possible to port OpenOffice.org on Android, "as it". Android is Java and even if there is an NDK (N for native), an application entirely written in C++ will not work. Nevertheless, this is an intersting idea to analyze what can be done. Strange to discover an application owned by Sun / Oracle cannot run in something invented by the same company. But maybe I missed something. Will continue to search anyway, because I'd like to understand why Google forces people to use Java only. Thanks in advance for any feedback, and why not, explain us what we missed."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids ProjectMany thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the
EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
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Libellés : Android, Education Project, mobile, OOo4Kids, porting
Education Project meeting: log available
Was IRC meeting today, for the
Education Project, and it was really a great moment.
We need to improve what we did last year, mostly improve the wiki presentation, the organization, and cleanup the website.
This year, we are more to welcome the students, and to be able to help and mentor them. As developers able to to that, I'd like to mention
Thorsten Behrens, Cedric Bosdonnat (both from Novell), and as developer (representing
Epitech Paris)
Pierre Pasteau ( + me )
On the prof side, we were happy to receive
Fardad Soleimanloo (from
Seneca College, Toronto) and at the end)
Morgan Magnin (from
Ecole Centrale Nantes ... me from
UTBM (both as prof and dev in fact).
On the students side, the list is long, an we were extremely happy to welcome
4 students from Sri Lanka ( University of Moratuwa ), one from Seneca College one from UTBM, several from Ecole Centrale Nantes ( a group of 5). Sadly, the students from ECN had a connectivity problem, and some were not able to join.
BTW, next week, I'll attend the
JDLL, for a presentation I'll do about
OOo4Kids, and I'll probably meet students from
INSA Lyon but I'll write another entry about that soon.
As usual the log is available on the wiki : the logNext meeting is scheduled the 15th October, same hour. See you !!"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids ProjectMany thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the
EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
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Libellés : Centrale Nantes, Education Project, effort, Epitech Paris, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
Next Education Project IRC meeting
The next
Education Project IRC meeting will occur tomorrow, thursday 8th of October, 16:00 ( UTC), or 18:00 ( CEST hour, i.e. Paris Hamburg hour)
Everybody interested is welcome, and the first part will be dedicated to welcome students.
The channel is #education.openoffice.org , server : irc.freenode.netFor further information, please have a look at the agenda :
the agenda.
See you !!"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids ProjectMany thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the
EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
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Libellés : E, High Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
OOo4Kids call for donation
You appreciate OOo4Kids or any action the Education project does ?
So now, you have no excuse to not help us :)For that,
Ben Bois did yet another great thing, and added a
donate link on the
download websiteOther nice feature ... look at the thermometer on left ;) 
The money will help us to found other actions, and more, to really create a bridge between
OpenOffice.org Project and the Education
Thanks a lot to all the donators !! """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids ProjectMany thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the
EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
...
Libellés : development, Education Project, experimental, fun, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice
