OOo4Kids. Recent news (25th nov2009)
Last changes for the coming 0.6 :
OOo4Kids is now localized in :
- Italian
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Chinese (simplified)
- Dutch
- english-US (default)
Note: Japanese is postponed (no demand)
A big thank you to :
* Leo Moons (nl version),
* Volker Merschmann and
Florian Effenberger (German version),
* Marina Latini and the Italian Team (Italian version),
* Julien Forgeat (simplified chinese version)
On the way :
- Portuguese (missing strings in the MS Intaller)New versions:
* XO Intel version (both XO-1 and XO-1.5) in spanish, and english (other on demand)
* Portable versions (Windows) in fr, de, es, pt, en-USDebian port in progress. Thanks to
Rene Engelhard ( Debian OpenOffice.org maintainer )
Still waiting my write access at Freedesktop ...
Libellés : High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Portable OOo4Kids, Sugar, Teaching OpenSource, XO
OOo4Kids.activity.xo is available !
On
XO machines, when using
Sugar, an application must respect some criterias, to appear listed as
activity. We had in the scope to provide OOo4Kids as activity on Sugar.
...and the first step is done !! Until yesterday evening (late in the night),
Thomas Fontenay and me, worked hard to fix a silly issue we had with the first .xo archive of
OOo4Kids. In fact, symlink are prohibited in the activity tree, and we had to modify it. + we had to include the changes in the OOo4Kids build process, similar to the OpenOffice.org one.
For the moment, we only provide en-US, but other locales are possible, like italien, spanish, french, german, and portuguese.
The lucky XO owners can download the archive thereNext steps :
* improve the set, and make its build more robust
* improve performance (simplify, simplify, remove dead code .. )
* work on the Journal implementation
* Study the sharing mechanism, like allow several children to work on the same document, though the network
* improve the python support
As you can see, there is place for a lot of students applications !!
Last but not least, I repeat my thank you to
Thomas Fontenay,
Abdelkader Belabbes, students at
Epitch Paris for their good work.
Libellés : Education Project, Epitech Paris, free software, fun, High Tech, OOo4Kids, Sugar, Teaching OpenSource, XO
Education Project ClassRoom : log available
Yesterday, was
IRC ClassRoom , and we were extremely pleased to receive
Heiner RechtienAs usual, the log is available on the
OpenOffice.org wikiLibellés : ClassRoom, Education Project, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
ClassRoom today : OpenOffice.org Migration to Mercurial
This is a reminder of the Education Project ClassRoom agenda :
today, starting 17:00 CET (Paris Hamburg hour)and we are proud to receive
Heiner Rechtien, Release Engineer à Sun Microsystems who will present us the
OpenOffice.org migration to MercurialThis is an IRC ClassRoom Channel is #education.openoffice.org Server is irc.freenode.netEverybody interested is welcome. For the newcomers, we use to let the speaker explain everything and keep the second part for questions.
See you !! Libellés : ClassRoom, Education Project, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
#ooo4Kids IRC channel is born
If you want to discuss and know more what we do, the
#ooo4Kids (notice the upper case) IRC channel has been created
Channel : #ooo4Kids Server : irc.freenode.netSee you !
... and welcome to
Marina Latini who started the
OOo4Kids wiki translation in
Italien ! Libellés : Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, IRC, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
OOo4Kids - recent news
OOoCon 2009
Alexandro Colorado will replace me during
OOoCon 2009, both for the Education Project presentation and
OOo4Kids presentation. Thanks to him!
(what follows is extracted from the
changelogs)
30th October -
me* Replaced 82 Sun copyrighted icons in default_images ( 16, 24, 32 and 48 pixels), with the one
Ben Bois provided in
Applications and Documents icons page. This is achieved using a shell script, and this script will probably help to replace other icons, progressively.
Thanks to
Stephan Bergmann who provided Thomas, Abdelkader and me important information for the OOo4Kids sugarization, mostly what do to cleanly modify the OOo4Kids tree, to match with Sugar specs.
(less recent, but so glad to see when other devs contribute :) )
26th October -
Thomas FontenayFirst step done for the Sugarization of OOo4Kids: setting additional X window properties for Sugar
* New sources file SugarProperties.cxx in vcl/unx/source/window/
* New header file sugarxproperties.hxx in vcl/unx/inc
* Modified configure.in and set_soenv.in. configure now supports --with-xo-intel=yes (specified for a XO build).
* Many files modified, calling the new function SetSugarXProperties(Display*, window)
Libellés : Education Project, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OOoCon, OpenOffice, Sugar
