Welcome to new students joining the OpenOffice.org Education Project
Morgan Magnin just advertised me today : two students from
Ecole Centrale Nantes(aka ECN) will continue the effort this semester (january to june 2010) :-)
Welcome to
Cyril le Mat and
Arthur Bonnet!
It is planned to continue to improve the HP Tablet PC use with Impress.
The great news, is that
this new project will start the third year of cooperation between
OpenOffice.org Education Project and
ECN.
Links: see
the blog entry about the previous project just finished and
screenshots about "Tablet PC and OpenOffice.org (french, sorry).
Are you
student in computing, and want to learn code (mostly C++), fight with
well defined and
mentored projects ? or simply contribute to OpenOffice.org, instead of doing dumb internal projects ?
Just find a teacher, as correspondant, and join the OpenOffice.org Education Project :-)
Contact : IRC
Channel : #education.openoffice.org
Server : irc.freenode.net
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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, ECN, Education, Education Project, EducOOo, free software, FSOSS, fun, 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 :
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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
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
Education Project at LSM / RMLL2009 (Nantes, France)
I'm proud to announce that
OpenOffice.org Education Project will be represented at
LSM / RMLL 2009 from the
7th to the 11th of July.
More precisely,
Mathieu Lalanne,
Pierre Pasteau, (to be confirmed)
Nicolas Jeudy, and myself will welcome you, and try to answer your questions about everything.
Means answer
all actions, including OOo4Kids Project we do to create a strong bridge between Educational world and the OpenOffice.org ProjectMathieu Lalanne(who will replace
Remi Boulle, unavailable), will present the Education Project and
EducOOo, the non profit association in the dedicated day of the french "pôle de compétences logiciels libres" of the SCEREN.
Link 1 :
The OpenOffice.org Education ProjectFrom my side, I'll participate to 3 presentations. The two first, will be with people from
Ecole Centrale Nantes [4], aka
ECN.
Also, thursday 9th July:
Link 2, presentation with
Olivier Girardot, ECN student:
Students contributions to OpenOffice.orgLink 3, presentation with
Morgan Magnin, teaching at ECN :
Challenges and recommandationsThe last one, will be the 10th July, and will belong to the Development topic, and will be about OOo4Kids ( http://wiki.ooo4kids.org )
Link 4, about :
present the the OOo4Kids projectSee you !!Libellés : Centrale Nantes, Education, Education Project, events, LSM, OOo4Kids, RMLL, Teaching OpenSource
eraser01: final report (english version) available
This report is the fruit of the collaboration between
Ecole Centrale Nantes(aka
ECN) and
OpenOffice.org Education Project.
Thanks to
Olivier Girardot and
Aude Quintana, students at ECN who sent me the english version of
The Eraser.
* Link for downloading the
.odt en-US version* Link for downloading the
.pdf en-US version * Link for downloading the
.pdf fr versionAnother report "
the Saving Machine", who was made for save the annotations made with the Impress feature is available.
* Link for downloading the
french version of the Saving MachineMany many thanks to the students from Ecole Centrale Nantes for their great work, to
Morgan Magnin, their professor, and to
Thorsten Behrens for his enormous contribution.
My conclusion of that, is I think it really worth to see more collaboration between
OpenOffice.org Project and the
Education world, and I'm proud to manage the
Education Project, who exactly has the goal to create a strong bridge between both.
Last but not least, 2 presentations of this collaboration are scheduled at
LSM 2009, but I'll say more about that very soon ;-)
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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, community, Education Project, experimental, High Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
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:
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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
.. my 3 last days
Very positive contact, with computing department director from UTBM. He appreciated a lot our effort with students. This department does concern students in 3rd to 5th year in our school. Stay tuned.
Was sick from saturday noon to ... today :/
4 students from UTBM will work with me all the week. the objective is to discover the OpenOffice.org Project, through the Education Project. I'll present them soon. We started the usual "build". I started a build on Ubuntu, and I wrote a complete log for Fardad. We should do the same on Mandriva, and on Windows too.
The second idea is to learn how work the OpenGL transitions, and imagine new one. Means we'll have to learn basegfx first.
Thanks to
Florian Heckl,
Stephan Bergmann, and
Robert Vojta for their contributions on the cws we did together. Hope it will be in 3.1 too.
We finally progressed with the poster. Soon more information :)
This evening, I was glad to see
Frederic Gelot, alias fredus create his first cws (Impress and Tablet PC)
Libellés : Centrale Nantes, High Tech, Impress, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource, various
Ecole Centrale Nantes / Educ OOo project. Summary of the 14th January meeting
After the good work the students did (see attached patch at
issue 97972), and as a first milestone in the cooperation, it was decided to have an IRC meeting on wednesday 14th of January.
Several points were discussed, and we had the pleasure to welcome
Morgan Magnin, the professor in charge of the students at Ecole Centrale Nantes.
=> The summary (french)
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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, High Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
Centrale Nantes and Education Project : first result with Tablet PC and Impress
More information on the original link (french ) :
Tablet PC After hours of compilation, the first try gives interesting results :
The students working on that, are
Olivier Girardot (aka ssaboum) and
Frederic Gelot (aka fredus on IRC). Wow :-)
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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 : Centrale Nantes, Education, fun, High-Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
