OOo4Kids 0.6 and Happy New Year !!
For the new year,
EducOOo and the
OpenOffice.org Education Project are proud to announce
OOo4Kids 0.6 is out, and can be downloaded at :
=> Download.ooo4Kids.org websiteIf you want to help us, to find resource and contribute back to improve OpenOffice.org, via the OpenOffice.org Education Project,
donations are welcome OOo4Kids is
made for Educational purpose, has been thought to work with students, making them discover OpenOfice.org source code, without constraints, but just code, and having Fun.The promise is, when the code is good enough, it will be proposed for integration into OpenOffice.org.
OOo4Kids is a 7-12 years children Office suite, based on OpenOffice.org ( http://www.openoffice.org ) source code. This means OpenOffice.org has some features OOo4Kids has not (like Base and Java). And if you need those features, please use OpenOffice.org, that you can download at :
Download OpenOffice.org. Please do not forget that the software is provided as it, and that you will use it at your own risks. Do not forget to do a backup either.
The latest changes since 0.5.1 are:
* (experimental)
Portable OOo4Kids for Windows the following locales are provided :
-
en-US, fr, de, es, nl, it, pt-
zh-CN is provided too - thanks to
Julien Forgeat for the translation - but not tested (can be unusable)
Please use them with caution, and report us any bug you found.
*
New layout ( thanks to
Ben Bois for the icons, and
Vincent Ruffiot for the screenshot) :
- fixed the white effect on right
- fixed the look
*
New toolbars behavior : now, the toolbars content depend on the
User's Level ( can be changed in the prefs).
See :
Toolbars and User Level for
further information.
*
New locales are provided :
- Italian,
- Chinese (simplified),
- Dutch
(previous existing locales : English-US, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish)
*
New XO port : OOo4Kids has been "Sugarized", means it does respect Sugar tree, and the .xo archive installs like any other activity.
*
More OOo4Kids icons * Linux : .deb and .rpm buildable (yet some bugs)
* Linux : language packs buildable (will be used for XO port)
* Experimental : modified the UI in the prefs, adding the "password" feature, to protect the prefs (avoiding children doing wrong actions).
* Will be implemented in 0.7. It is scheduled that the password will be enabled by default.
*
Next step :
- choose the definitive toolbars content, per level, and following the teachers recommandations
- fix more issues with .deb and .rpm
- more bugfixes
- implement the password feature
=> Further information :
see the roadmapSeason Greatings, and (almost) Happy New Year to all of you !!Libellés : Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, OOo4Kids, Portable OOo4Kids
Education Project mailing list reactivation
Below, the mail I sent to several mailing lists.
After two years of an intense activity of the french part of the education.openoffice.org project, we are ready to reactivate this international list : this is one of our objectives for 2010 !!
To subscribe, just send a mail at : users-subscribe@education.openoffice.org confirm, and that's all : you can start contributing to the Education Project !!
To become a member, please follow the instructions provided there : http://education.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList
Education Project aims to create a bridge between Educational World and OpenOffice.org Project, following 3 axes :
- create a network of teachers, using OpenOffice.org
- provide a sharing area
- provide new developers, and spread OpenOffice.org source code (teach OOo source code and coding guidelines, UNO, an so on)
Currently, this project counts around 110 members, but everybody is welcome, and there is so much to do, that any contribution is wamrly welcome too !!
Everybody is welcome : teachers, students, just curious :)For the one willing to help us, we need people able to help us for the website, translate, manage the wiki, but not only (the list is not limited).
Other need is to compare, work together (collaborative work), and concatenate informations providing from several educational systems, and of course, share our knowledge.
Be welcome, and Seasonal Greatings to all of you !!
Eric Bachard
Lead,
OpenOffice.org Education Project
Libellés : Education, Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
OpenOffice.org Education Project and Epitech Paris students
The great story between
Epitech Paris and OpenOffice.org, for instance
OpenOffice.org Education Project, representing OpenOffice.org Proejct, of course, continued this year.
What happened ?
Last year, was
Pierre Pasteau, who contributed to the
moz2seamonkey migration. Thanks to
Frank Schonheit who helped us a lot btw.
This year, we had two other students,
Thomas Fontenay and
Abelkader Belabbes, who did a great work too. The work they did, was to port
OOo4Kids to the XO
Note: port OpenOffice.org directly is not an option, because an XO machine does only have 1GB of Hard disk, and 256 MB or RAM only, while OOo set is already 400MB :-)
Some will say this is not a directly visible result, but in fact, this is an extremely important result :
Realize this XO port connected OpenOffice.org Community directly with XO / OLPC Community !! (like provide gdium suppport connected us to the OLPH community too)Indeed, from one side, the
.odf is essential, and from another, it must be considered that the students learned a lot of OpenOffice.org source code, in a short time. Learn the code first, is essential to my eyes. If they had to dive into QA, specs (what basically does mostly concern Sun employees), six month would have been too short. The other good effect, is that the OpenOffice.org Project yet built a strong link with an engineer school.
In fact, that's exactly what we did with
Ecole Centrale Nantes, and
UTBM .
The difficulty is that create such bridges with schools is extremely long, needs a lot of energy, but, in return, creates a very positive image of the project, and can really help to find developers (remember, the code is the blood of a free software, not "politics ").
Just a bit of patience, and the future will be better ! Last but not least, we received several machines, exactly 3 XO-1.5 for the next coming students.
The plan is to profile and try to improve Impress performances (the request is very high for the netbooks), and propose a backport in OpenOffice.org, if the code desserves it.
Those machines are reserved to the two first students (from France prefered), able to find a prof (mandatory) to make the link with the school.
any candidate(s) ?Libellés : Centrale Nantes, Education Project, EducOOo, Epitech Paris, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice
Ecole Centrale Nantes and OpenOffice.org Education project
The
OpenOffice.org Education Project continues
the Effort.
Ecole Centrale Nantes is a regular contributor, and below, the story.
How was it this year ? Well, change from svn to hg was a bit tricky (headhache caused by the rebase), but at the end, we did it.
Jonathan Winandy, mercurial expert created its own repository, and we used it until the end. At the end, I pushed, with
Thorsten Behrens and
Rene Engelhard precious advices, all the changes into
eraser01 cws. Another part of the work is at
issue 97972, but not only. The wiki too does contain a lot of information.
The students who contributed this year, are :
*
Nelle Varoquaux*
Jonathan Winandy*
Leo Collet*
Remy Dumas*
Christian JacquesAnd the professor who followed that is
Morgan Magnin.
Many thanks to all of them !!For the one interested, the final report is available online :
ECN Tablet, final report (2009)The feature is really great (specifications have been proposed last year) and we are preparing the cws, for the QA. It will be proposed for integration. There will not be a big change, because the option will not be active by defaut. The plan is to add other features in the next semesters.
I'll retain, like the previous time, it was a pleasure to work online with students, and to help them, to discover the OpenOffice.org source code, and more. Other important thing, is that you can work on the core, when you are enough close to the students, to mentor them, and hear carefully their problems. IRC ( channel : #education.openoffice.org , server : irc.freenode.net ) is really great for that.
Last but not least, I got a movie presenting the feature, made by
Nelle Varoquaux, but I can't propose a link from there at the moment. Please click again later ;)
Libellés : Centrale Nantes, ECN, Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
