OOo4Kids 0.9.5 adds Arabic localization
The localization is not completely finished, but thanks a lot to
Anas for his work !
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Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the EducOOo Logo
Libellés : Education, EducOOo, hacks, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
Password protected preferences in OOo4Kids 0.9
One of the
OOo4Kids 0.9 new feature is the
password protected preferences.
Principles :Children love experiment. Most of them have good skills for that, but this is not what the teacher expects :-) So, the goal of this feature, is to implement, intelligently, a protection for the preferences, who :
* avoids the children to modify something
* but allow them to click, and see whatever they want (in read only mode)
Important :
this feature is only a protection to avoid children hacking the OOo4Kids, but not a security (the password is readable in Common.xcu)
The Rules :
*
The default password, if enabled, is : prof*
By default, the preferences are unlocked* To activate the protection, one just need to click on the "Click to avoid modifications" Image button (the green padlock).
=>
Be carefull : the protection will be validated once the dialog box will be closed, and this change is not reversible Means once activated, you'll need the password to disable that.
The views :
*
A green padlock displayed on the bottom of the view, means : unlocked preferences 
*
A red padlock displayed on the bottom of the view, means : locked preferences 
Disable the protection : 
Change the password
Attention : the toolbars will stay customizable.The feature was made on behalf of teachers, and in collaboration with them. Th code will be fully documented (I started already) at the
Password protected preferences wiki page, and of course, if ever something can be reused in Openoffice.org, I'd be glad to provide patches (no idea whether it will interest anybody though)
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If 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 OpenOffice.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.
Libellés : Education, Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
New look for the Education Project wiki page
Many thanks to
Matthieu Paret, student at
UTBM (France) who relooked the
Education Project wiki pageThe work was made as a student application (credits), during the previous semester.
The reports describing the work, are available in both French and English (please report us the issues, errors and so on, you could find)
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French version of the report (.pdf format).*
English version of the report (.pdf format).*
Other reports (.odt and other) To summarize, the work was mostly a long thought about what we do, and how we do.
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Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) OOo4Kids Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the EducOOo Logo
Libellés : Education, Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, Teaching OpenSource, Tools, UTBM
OOo4kids provided as .deb archives
Yesterday, I finally figured out what was wrong with the upstream packaging, and the .deb we build install fine and can be deinstalled fine too. Just follow
the instructionsThe problem is, the upstream way of .deb is not the right one, and
Jose Luis Redrejo who kindly helped me, suggested to return to the right Debian way.
One big issue, e.g., is that if you want to install Writer only, this is unclear with the current dependencies scheme, and needs to be seriously improved. Other issue, is there are not "Section" and "Priority" sections in the existing control file.
So, this must be changed, and we agreed to use the upstream way until 1.0 output, and then change for the real Debianization just after 1.0 is out (current milestone in progress is 0.9)
Experimental packages can be provided on demand. Either ask us the info by email, or (better) ask on IRC.
Last but not least : .rpm will follow soon if we find a volunteer.
Channel : #education.openoffice.org
Server : irc.freenode.net
See you Libellés : Debian, Education, Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, Linux, OOo4Kids, Teaching OpenSource
OOo4Kids 0.8 : new Star Center
One more time, thanks to
Ben Bois who created a new great background for the future version (0.8) of
OOo4Kids :
The
shapes of the buttons are
no longer apparent, and when you
roll over one of them, a help balloon explains you which application will open. Of course, things are not perfect, and we still have some bugs to fix, but this is very promising !! (and my children love it ;-)
More information about the
recent changes IMPORTANT : the version proposed for download (0.6) below does NOT have the feature yet. The new splashscreen should be integrated in the version : 0.8, not before. => 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 OpenOffice.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.
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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
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Libellés : children, Education, Education Project, EducOOo, experimental, High Tech, OOo4Kids, Portable OOo4Kids
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
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
OOo4Kids : 13rd August changes ...
Since two days, I was working hard to implement a simple request: add a menu entry, to be able to check for the license content.
The idea is to provide soon a public version. of OOo4KidsFor the one interested, I started to document everything I did in the code on an
OOo4Kids wiki page. See
License dialog page . This is work in progress, and currently, 25% of the changes is written, but I'll update asap.
Below, some screenshots :
The first screenshot is the new background for the
mounted image disk. We respected
Christian Lohmaier (aka cloph) request, and
Ben Bois did a great work (I really like this new one)
The second screenshot is the frame you see when installing :
The third screenshot is the implementation of the menu entry
"License ...". This way, no need to ask the user to read or do whatever at install, but the license will be abailable from everywhere. Simple and efficient.
The fourth screenshot is what you see when you click on
"Licence ...". This is simply the about box I reused for the new feature. As you can see, there is still a bug, because the title is not correct, but I expect to solve that soon (please contact me if you have an idea).
... last but not least, the last one is what you can read when you hit CTRL SDT (or CMD+SDT on Mac OS X : the list of the people who contributed or helped to the OOo4Kids code (partial list there, in alphabetical order). As you can see, some formating is mandatory (sentence too long). But that's the beginning :-)
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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 : Education, Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, OOo4Kids, Teaching OpenSource
OOo4Kids : last changes
All the recent changes are given on our wiki. Just see
the changelogs)In the list, there is a new background icon, for the mounted image disk, on Mac OS X. As
Christian Lohmaier suggested, the butterflies showing where drop the application, are bigger than the application itself, and
Ben Bois, who designed this background, will have a look asap.
But what is important to me, what that
Abdelkader Bellabes and
Thomas Fontenay (both from
Epitech Paris) are now able to build (both OpenOffice.org and OOo4Kids),
AND debug on both Windows and Linux, and (in the air) on Sugar now. For example, we traced with Thomas, and finally found a solution (not completely solved yet), together a possible crash with copy-paste.
So, now, we'll be able to start with profiling : Thomas on Linux, Abdelkader on Windows, and me an all possible OS's.
Our first plan, will be to play with the famous generic.ppt (does not work well, good stress for Impress), and analyze everything: first, to learn how Impress works, during presentations, and second, to search what happens, and what can cause slow downs, in some situations. Means pedagogical purpose first, but not only.
Work in progress: with
Thorsten Behrens, we are making a point on the project with people from
Ecole Centrale Nantes, to see what can be or not integrated. (to be continued)
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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 : Education, Education Project, EducOOo, Epitech Paris, High Tech, OOo4Kids, Teaching OpenSource
Back from RMLL 2009 (Nantes, France)
Back from
RMLL 2009 . In fact I was 4 days in Paris with my family, and I'm just back at home, until ... tomorrow for 2 weeks.
What a fest :) Thanks to
Mathieu Lalanne, Pierre Pasteau for their great work, and their presence. Thanks to
Remi Boulle for the super tshirts we have. We were surprised to sale most of them (next time, we'll take more). Thanks to all the people who made this event what it was.
Nice to have seen
OOo4Kids running correctly on a Celeron 500 + 128MB or RAM. Really impressive :)
Thanks to the Nantais,
Morgan Magnin, Olivier Girardot, Aude Quintana, Jonathan Winandy who contributed to the presentations we did. Nice to see we'll continue to work together :)
Nice to meet
Cédric Mathieu and Isabelle too !
Last but not least, all the slides we did are available
there.
OOOops .. already time to stop
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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 : ECN, Education, Education Project, EducOOo, High-Tech, OpenOffice, RMLL, Teaching OpenSource
Education Project now counts 100 members !
The Education Project is now over the symbolic wall of 100 first members (
the membership )Thanks !!
Libellés : Education, Education Project, 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
Education Project and Epitech Paris
From July to December 2009, there will be a new scheduled Project between
OpenOffice.org Education Project and
Epitech Paris Thomas Fontenay, Abdelkader Bellabes will work on a forked version of OpenOffice.org, named
OOo4Kids for
performance improvement on powerless machines, like
XO or
gdium.
Of course, this study will include
backport to OpenOffice.org for the most interesting solutions (if possible and accepted), and will include
profiling too, plus at least one
User Interface ImprovementDevelopers :
Pierre Pasteau, Eric Bachard Managed by
Julien Ballet for Epitech Paris,
Eric Bachard for Education Project.
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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 : Education, effort, Epitech Paris, High Tech, OOo4Kids, Teaching OpenSource
Students, OpenOffice.org and Java
Today, I was glad to see
Cedric Bosdonnat (Novell) join the IRC channel
#education.openoffice.org (server is irc.freenode.net). We often have questions from students about Java, but we had not the skills to answer.
Cedric will help a lot with that.
Of course, there are
#dev.openoffice.org and
#go-oo IRC channels (and some other), but the idea is to use a dedicated channel, to avoid boring developers with simple and often-the-same questions.
Something ideal could be to have dedicated hours where students could find the developers they need. e.g. defining a list, or sort of agenda on the wiki. Shouldn't be too difficult, but we need volunteers ...
...btw, Python specialists are accepted and welcome too ;-)See you :-)Libellés : Education, effort, High Tech, java, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
Salon des Ressources Educatives Besancon (France, 10th of June 2009)
After
Geneva and
Maubeuge (I'll announce soon),
Frederic Diaz,
Nicolas Jeudy,
Francois Beuraud and myself will be glad to meet you at the
Salon des Ressources Educatives de Besancon.We'll represent
OpenOffice.org and the
Education Project of course.
Many thanks to
Nadine Rayssac who invited us for the second time.
Like last year, we expect to meet a lot of teachers and professors, who do constitute our "local network". Of course, we'll show them the 7-12 version of OOo we're working on, and we'll notice carefully every remark and suggestion to improve this "Education" version of OOo.
See you !!
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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 : Besancon, Education, Education Project, EducOOo, events, High Tech, OOo4Kids
IRC meeting "The Hybrid Model of Teaching OpenSource" : log available
Lot of people yesterday on the Education Project channel, and the meeting was extremely informative. Aristotle University model is close to the Education Project one (see the log for differences), and
Andreas Meiszner provided extremely interesting links, like the one about
P. I. model. Several experiences similar to the
Aristotle University and / or
OpenOffice.org Education Project. We can consider we are a the begining of something extremely important to come, and we have to take care to work together, to create synergy.
As usual, the log is available on the wiki :
click meThanks a lot, to Andreas Meiszner and to all the attendees, and see you soon on the #education.openoffice.org channel !!---------------------------------------
Education Project on the wiki EducOO.org blog (french) Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the Education Project Logo
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Libellés : Aristotle University, Education, Education Project, events, High Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
Colored tabs implementation in Calc
... or howto help a new contributor joining the
OpenOffice.org Project.
Many thanks to
Daniel Watson, who wrote this new feature, and I would like to mention the great support from
Kohei Yoshida, another OpenOffice.org developer from Novell, who is a Calc expert.
From my side, I welcomed Daniel . Since two days, we work together, (
mostly on the #education.openoffice.org IRC channel ), to avoid bothering other devs, with basic questions, like explaining the build process, how to debug, rebuild including symbols, how to improve the code (like respect the coding guidelines .. and son on), and I fixed some builds issues with him ( + I started the code review ). The biggest issue we encountered was a dark visibility issue, but SC_DLLPUBIC macro helped to solve that.
To illustrate the great work Daniel did (mostly alone !!), better use screenshots :-)
Please note, I used Mac OS X Aqua version for the screenshots, but it should work the same way on all portsThe first one describes how we can set the color of the tabs :
The next illustrates the result :
Yet another example :
Now what ?Of course, the road is long before integration, but Daniel created a
wiki page, to start with specifications, and
if you want to help him, feel free to contact him ! At the end, I just would like to say this is fantastic to welcome new developpers like Daniel, the message to the other who hesitate, is : please don't !!---------------------------------------
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Libellés : aqua, developpement, Education, High Tech, OpenOffice
Next Education Project IRC meeting : "Introduction to a hybrid approach to software engineering and open source"
Please note there will be an
IRC meeting on Monday 26th of January 2009, 16:00 UTC or 17:00 CET (Paris, Hamburg), 19.00 Greek time, 11:00 (Toronto)
Location : Server :
irc.freenode.net , Channel :
#education.openoffice.orgContent :
The meeting will provide an overview and room for discussion on a hybrid approach to software engineering piloted at
Aristotle University’s course ‘Introduction to Software Engineering’. This approach aims, amongst others, to bring together the various involved stakeholders in a semi-structured way: own & fellow students, free learners outside of formal education & open source practitioners / projects.
The chat will be attended by
Andreas Meiszner from The Open University UK, who is taking care about design and organizational aspects and the course team from Aristotle presented by
Katerina Moustaka and
Eleni Konstantinou.
To get a better understanding on the hybrid approach in question please see a paper and presentation at:
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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 : Aristotle University, Education, events, experimental, 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
How did this happen ? Firstly, some students (
Olivier Girardot and some other) joined the IRC channel, explained their idea (I'll tell more another time). They asked questions about Impress, and
Thorsten Behrens and me tried to help them.
Looks like they appreciated, because I officialy received a mail from
Morgan Magnin ( Lecturer,
Ecole Centrale Nantes), explaining me that Mr
Guillaume Moreau, Director Information System, of the school, authorized us to add it in the list of the schools working with us :-)
It means we will have to organize us better now, e.g. , we'll have to create a dedicated page on the website, think how they can contribute positively for the project and so on ...
Nevertheless, this is always an honnor for us to welcome students and their professors / lecturers. I expect other will join (some people I recently met in Paris during
Open World Forum let me think we can expect other ... )
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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 : Education, EducOOo, OpenOffice, School, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
Education Project at Educatice (Paris,France)
The
OpenOffice.org Education Project will be represented at
EducaTice (Paris, France), by the
28th and 29th of November. This event is one of the most important event of the year for Education, in France, and we're glad to be present there !!
Many thanks to
Jean-Pierre Archambault, from the SCEREN, who invited us (and other).
If you want to visit us, please come :
Friday 28th, morning :
The CRDP of Aix-Marseille, Lyon and Paris
"Ecole et Nature", OpenOffice.org Education, Lycée Léonard de Vinci of Melun
Friday 28th, afternoon :
The CRDP of Aix-Marseille, Lyon and Paris
"Ecole et Nature", OpenOffice.org Education, Lycée Léonard de Vinci of Melun, Wikimédia
Saturday 29th morning :
The CRDP of Aix-Marseille, Lyon and Paris
"Ecole et Nature", OpenOffice.org Education, Wikimédia
Saturday 29th afternoon :
The CRDP of Aix-Marseille, Lyon and Paris
"Ecole et Nature", OpenOffice.org Education, Lycée Léonard de Vinci of Melun, Wikimédia
See you !!
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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 : Education, EducOOo, events, High-Tech, OpenOffice, Teaching OpenSource
OOo Coding Guidelines: log available
The
log of the ClassRoom is available
Was a very interesting moment, and I never will read the code like before after that :-)
And we all want to say thank you to
Thorsten Behrens and Bjoern Michaelsen who contributed, for everything.
Other resources
Thorsten provided:
slides ( as .pdf) of the classroom
slides ( as .odp) of the classroom
Don't forget:
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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 : ClassRoom, Education, OpenOffice, School, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
Yet other Ben Bois creations :-)
Many thanks to
Ben Bois, who created yet other pieces for the
Education ProjectBen was so kind to create new stickers, images and logos (for goodies in the future) to bring resources to the Education Project, here the
FOSS.in is concerned (I still expect we'll receive donations to attend)
Just a sample :
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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 : Education, EducOOo, FOSS.in, fun, High-Tech, OpenOffice
Next ClassRoom: OOo Coding Guidelines
As mentionned in the
agenda, next
Education Project ClassRoom will occur on
Thursday 13th November, and will be about OpenOffice.org Coding Guidelines.
Location :
IRCChannel : #education.openoffice.orgServer : irc.freenode.net
Hour : 17:00 to 18:00 Paris/Hamburg hour ( ~20:00 for India , 12:00 for Toronto )
Many thanks to
Thorsten Behrens (Novell) who accepted to manage this Education Project ClassRoom
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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 : Education, OpenOffice, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
See you in Toronto
Was a long and hard day today. Preparing my luggage. The eTicket is ready, Fardad kindly confirmed me the Hotel is confirmed too. See you in Toronto, for a great
FSOSS 2008The agenda looks great, and I'll probably watch a lot of presentations.
Vivement jeudi :)
Libellés : Education, events, OpenOffice, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
The road to India
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay was so kind to forward the announce about the
call for paper @FOSS.IN,( Bangalore, India 25th - 29th Nov 2008 )
To be continued ... Update : fixed typo. @Sankarshan, please excuse me
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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 : Education, events, High-Tech, India, OpenOffice
OOo svn migration: log available
For the record, and for the one interested to know more,
the log of the ClassRoom is available
Was a very interesting classroom, and we want to say thank you to
Jens Heiner Rechtien for everything.
Update : if you want to propose a ClassRoom, please contact us !
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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 : ClassRoom, Education, OpenOffice, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
... and
Ben Bois created yet another pretty logo ! (please look carefully the details)
I was very surprised when one proposed me ...
As a simple volunteer, even not a professional, I must admit, I'm proud and honored to represent the project at such an event like the
FSOSS 2008 ( Toronto, Canada).
Many many thanks to
Frank Hecker, from the staff of the
Mozilla Foundation, for the invitation, and the help he provided for attending.
I'm impatient to meet for true
Fardad, David, Chris, all professors at
Seneca College,
Rose Saliba, and all the one I only know the (nick) name on the IRC channel, and to meet all these students who are learning Open Source.
The idea is to propose the students an application based on a real bug, or missing feature, and write code for OpenOffice.org. Thus, simply find new developers.
My presentation will describe an
European point of view of our experience, explain what works, what does not, what could be done, and how we could work together. In one word, propose some tracks to cooperate and improve what already exists with the Open Source Community.
Off : David told me he's using a Mac, and we already have nice ideas for students interested to contribute for the Mac port ;-)
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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 : Education, FSOSS, OpenOffice, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
Next ClassRoom: OOo svn migration
As mentionned in the
agenda, next
Education Project ClassRoom will occur on
Wednesday 8th October, and will be about OpenOffice.org migration to svn.
Many thanks to
Jens-Heiner Rechtien who accepted to present us
the OpenOffice.org migration to svnFor the first time, we invited some professors and students from
Seneca College. That's the reason why we have choosen an unusual hour.
As usual, everybody is welcome. See you !
As reminder :
Server is
irc.freenode.netchannel :
#education.openoffice.org Wednesday 8th October Hour : 17:00-18:00 (Paris / Hamburg) , 11:00-12:00 (Toronto) ; 21:00 ( India )
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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 : ClassRoom, Education, OpenOffice, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
Ben's blog :-)
I was not aware Ben Bois, our super and fidele designer, who did a lot of kind logos ... had a blog ;-)
Please have a look, to see his last creations.
=>
Ben's Blog Libellés : Art, Education, EducOOo, High-Tech, OpenOffice
OpenOffice.org meets Seneca College
If you look at the list of
potential projects proposed to
Seneca College ( Toronto, Canada) students, you'll see there is a link ( will be updated soon) to the
OpenOffice.org Education Project Effort.
This is just a link at the moment, because we'll have to adapt and do some cleanup the proposed projects to the need.
From our side, we propose , with an -as precise as possible- frame, and well defined goals, little Projects for one or two students working as a binom. If you want to compare, Seneca introduces the projects to students the
potential projects way.
How things happened ?
Seneca College has students, and has so close relationship with
Mozilla. Recently, it was decided to join other Communities, to make the Seneca College participation in it grow.
From our side the OpenOffice.org needs volunteers, and developers
The idea is to propose the students, e.g. fixing a little bug, or writing a little feature for OpenOffice.org. At the end, if everything is successfull, validate the content.
The actors now :Fardad Souleimanloo,
Chris Tyler, and
David Humphrey, all Professors at Seneca College, were presented to me.
Louis Suarez Potts, the OOo Community manager was invited too, and during an IRC meeting, where , we completed the presentations, discussed and explained more about our respective expectations.
Fardad will join our Team, and we'll work together.
To continue the Effort, I am preparing new subjects ( ~10 ) for students, and I'll add them to the existing list.
Waiting, volunteers are welcome to help us to prepare as much as possible of projects, and have Fun writing code (this is what I prefer to be honest :))
I expect great news soon. Stay tuned :)
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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 : Education, EducOOo, OpenOffice, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
Imagining courses to "teach" OpenOffice.org source code
Imagine it becomes possible to organize courses, to
teach OpenOffice.org Project and Source code to students. Crazy idea, but why not ?
Currently, we do provide applications, but maybe we'll need to improve the list.
How to evaluate and validate the formation ? Of course, it will be tricky to find all the mentors, but why not dream ? :)
Starting point: the student chooses a project himself (better be motivated )
Rule: no change by default. Once choosen, the student must go, and manage his project,
validating milestones.What could be those
"milestones" ? Below, just a draft:
To validate : 0.1
discover the OpenOffice.org Project (needs to be better defined)
basics with mailing lists,
create login
Validation: Education Project membership validated,
must be able to connecty on EIS
must be able to find changes form a given cws
To validate :0.2
be easy downloading the sources
use cvs/svn and create/apply/reverse diffs
configure the build (one OS )
Validation:
Be able to checout
successfull configure
can start a build
To validate :0.3
first OpenOffice.org build (in autonomy)
build one module using symbols
run a installset, and start tracing the module
Validation:
with a prof, provide a commented trace,
answers questions
be able to describe a stack, extract values, set values
To validate :0.4
analyse the attached issue,
isolate the concerned code
propose a technical analyse of the issue as specification
Validation :
presentation during a project review ( as IRC meeting or better if possible)
To validate : 0.5
propose possible solutions as fixes
implement a proof of concept
improve specs
propose unit tests
create patches
To validate : 0.6
upload ssh2 key
create tunnel and validate
Validation : checkout sources, and issue closed
To validate : 0.7
request the Domain developer
validate the commit passport <- create a dedicated exam ?
commit the fixes
Validation :
commit passport validated
good quality commits
able to manage basics operations with cws using tunnel
To validate 0.8
improve the solution,
manage code cleanup
Validation:
cws content approved by follower and mentor
specs approved
To validate : 0.9
QA o the cws
follows the QA
cws management : targets, issues verified ..etc
proceed QA tests
To validate : 1.0
code integrated
specs finalization
Validation by the followers, and welcome boy ! Other parallel skills to be validated: autonomy, creativity, integration in the team
What a program !!
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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 : Education, OpenOffice, Seneca, Teaching OpenSource
Call for donation for Education and Mac OS X porting projects
Several OpenOffice.org Projects have no or very limited resources. e.g.
Mac OS X Aqua port and
Education Project (still incubator project). But to continue the effort, like mentor students writing code for OpenOffice.org project, help developers attending conferences, or pay them expensive memberships for development (like Apple ADC, or iPhone SDK ), or even pay one skilled developer to write some new feature, they need a bit of money.
EducOO.org is a french association (non profit) who aims to help
OpenOffice.org Education Project, or other OpenOffice.org Project like the
Mac OS X port, but not only.
This association is there to receive legally money from donators, for a lot of reasons, like help the developers to write missing features, attend conferences, or buy machines and even more.
If you want to support both Mac OS X and Education Project,
you can simply donate.
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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 : Education, EducOOo, High-Tech, Mac OS X, OSX
News from Education Project
Pierre Pasteau and
Rakesh Pandit have seen their rights granted (thanks to
Martin Holmichell, Louis Suarez Potts and Stefan Taxhet who have accepted the requests). This means Pierre and Rakesh can now create their own cws's, commit code using tunnel, and ask to a confirmed developer to validate their code. Like all other OpenOffice.org developers. If you join
#education.openoffice.org channel (IRC server is irc.freenode.net), their IRC nicknames are (respectively)
pierrep and
chacha_chaudhry.
This means too, the
Education Project now counts 2 new Domain developers ! Other tasks in progress :
This morning, I was invited to
Valentin Janiaut presentation. The topic was about his task : Image Capture Implementation on Mac OS X. Was a very interesting presentation, and Valentin did big progress, and presented several possibilities.
Valentin is yet another student involved in
Education Project Effort, and no doubt, he will soon propose code.
From my side, still playing with OpenGL, I tested FLipView, and I have some ideas for the future. If you don't understand what means FlipView, you can have a look at the video ( ugly, but we see what happens) I put there
OpenGL FlipView .(tested ok using VLC under Linux and Mac OS X)
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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 : Education, High-Tech, Mac OS X, OpenOffice, OSX, School
Present Education Project at Epitech (Paris )
I'm invited at
Epitech Paris, the 24th September (starting 16h ).
I hope it will be a great occasion to
present the OpenOffice.org Education Project,
meet students for true and
explain how things work in OpenOffice.org.
Agenda :
- present
OpenOffice.org Project- present
Education Project , the
Effort, the
ClassRoom - Present
EducOOo (french link, only at the moment) , the association who aims to be our resource
Many thanks to Pierre Pasteau who organized the event.
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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 : Education, High-Tech, OpenOffice, School
Education Project effort: a point on the work in progress
Several applications are started.
First application:
Pierre Pasteau to replace mozilla 1.7.5 sources, with seamonkey 1.1.11 source
Today was the first project review. Attendees : Franck Schonheit, Pierre Pasteau, me.
The log of the review Looking at the agenda, Pierre confirmed there is no delay, and we can start building OpenOffice.org using the new patch he created on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
Frank proposed to ask Martin Hollmichel for Pierre commit rights, thus he will be able to commit his own changes directly, and discover for true the real OpenOffice.org scheduling process. Always glad to see new volunteers joining the project :-)
2nd application, does concern
Valentin Janiaut: Image capture implementation on Mac OS X.
More precise description of the need, first try in progress. We need to describe more about the Image Capture available API
Rakesh Pandit started to work in starmath. Project review for current status has to be scheduled. More information to come this week about the starmath issue.
Don't forget,verybody, willing to help us, can join the effort, and will be warmly welcomed!
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Education Project on the wiki=> If you are willing to present a projet, or drive a ClassRoom with us, please contact me.
Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the Logo
Libellés : development, Education, High-Tech, OpenOffice, School
Little ClassRoom about warnings
Today, and because of the proximity of the holidays, we did a little ClassRoom with Rakesh, about the current effort
wae4binfilter.
The origin of the effort, what sorts of warnings we can encounter, and how solve them, and retain the lesson for the future code we'll write.
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Education Project on the wiki=> If you are willing to present a projet, or drive a ClassRoom with us, please contact me.
Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the Logo
Libellés : ClassRoom, development, Education, effort, OpenOffice
Education Project 8 months after ...
8 months already, since
Luis Suarez Potts invited me to join Education Project. Like
Sankarshan suggested me, it's time to present some figures.
So, what's new ?
A) Membership The Education Project now counts
64 members (was 13 members 8 months ago), counts two mailing lists, the most active is the dev@education.openoffice.org
B)ActivityB1) IRC channel (
#education.openoffice.org,
irc.freenode.net )
Very active people are
Rakesh Pandit,
Pierre Pasteau,
Andreas Mantke (from Portable OpenOffice.org),
Raphael Bircher (from de project). Other regular contributors are
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay,
Valentin Janiaut,
Cedric Bosdonnat,
Stephane Bonhomme ... etc
B2) French side
On the francophone side, we have a lot of very active contributors, like
Nicolas Jeudy, Fred Diaz, Fred Ollivier, Remi Boulle, Mathieu Lalanne, Guy Veyssiere, Francois Beuraud, .. and a lot of other.
B3) on the Wiki
- improved
Education Project Wiki page - we propose several applications for students. See:
the effort-
ClassRooms : dedicated development topics are being discussed on IRC, and logs are collected, for an asynchronous use. IRC is the most simple compromise for people who don't have a reliable network.
We used intensively the wiki, and are proud to say that great Sun developers like
Philipp Lohmann and
Mathias Bauer, or
Christian Lohmaier, a volunteer, extremely precious for the OpenOffice.org Community, contributed.
C) Working with studentsCurrently, there are several applications where students are involved.
We cannot start with complicated applications, because we decided to create progressive documentation.
As example, OpenOffice.org Education Project created -sort of- partnership with Epitech ( Paris, France). A student from Epitech,
Pierre Pasteau, started a 6 month application (until end december 2008). 3 tasks will be proposed. In meantime,
Franck Schonheit , proposed to help. Very kind from him.
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migrate mozilla 1.7.5 to seamonkey 1.1.x As you can see, we try to define objective to be validated for every application. We try to log everything for the community, thus next student will be able to select what they need to solve their next problems
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make the uno-skeletonmaker tool templatable (application proposed by
Cedric Bosdonnat)
+ a 3rd task, e.g. fixing a starmath bug, with
Thomas Lange help.
Other remarkable contribution from
Rakesh Pandit, who is a regular contributor, sending patches and working hard. We worked on wae4binfilter01 together (close to complete), and we will continue for wae4binfilter some times.
The main objective of Rakesh, is to contribute for
starmath tasks (like issue 972 I didn't manage to work on yet, due to lack of free time )
D) Improved resourcesTo find resources more easely, an association has been created, called
EducOOo. The idea is to be able to receive donations and contributions
legaly.
To avoid mistakes, we asked
Noel Debarle, from
Sesamath, to join the EducOOo association Council, and help us.
E) VisibilityEducation Project was present at the following events :
-
Solution Linux Expo (Paris France),
- FOSDEM 2008 (Bruxelles, Belgie),
- Live eTic (Montpellier, France),
- RMLL 2008 (Mont de Marsan France),
- GoOOCon2008 (Prague Czech Rep.),
- Rencontres de l'Orme (Marseille, France),
- Salon des Ressources Educatives (Besancon , France)Last but not least,
Louis Suarez Potts will represent us at
OOoCon 2008 (Beiijin, China)Thanks to all the people who made this possible !!
France only (but other countries can copy easely).
During RMML ( Mont de Marsan, France), we created a group of Associations around Education, like GNU Edu Ofset ( http://www.ofset.org/it ), Kolekti ( http://www.kolekti.org/ ), Edulibre (http://www.edulibre.org/ ), and some other. The idea is to work and help us together. An important event is scheduled in september, and I'll post further information asap.
Of course, to avoid misunderstanding, we only work for pedagogical content, and redirect everything about OpenOffice.org use to fr.openoffice.org project.
Top 5 of the todo :1)
Find more resources Improve the Team : We need you !!
Other possibility : donations are welcome : we can provide our IBAN on demand
2)
improve the practice wiki pageWe certainly can improve the efficiency of the content. The task is open, and any feedback is welcome :)
3)
improve the synergy with Sun devs Obviously, something is happening about Education, but there is no coordination with Education Project. I trust Louis to find the best solution soon :)
4)
Improve the Education Project visibility through local regional contactsSeveral actions should be scheduled, like improve the mailing list activity, organize events in some schools or important official events .. and so on
5)
Improve our websiteThis is work in progress. Thanks to
Raphael Bircher/, who did a nice work.
=> to be continued :)
As you can see, this is an extremely promising project and we any contributor is welcome.
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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 : Education, High-Tech, OpenOffice, School
