Campaign for OpenOffice.org in French schools
Was not that easy, but with several french non profit associations (
April,
EducOOo,
Aful,
Adulact, and
Scideralle ), we made a poster, originally created by
Christian Driga, to present OpenOffice.org to the people working inside french Educational institutions ( but not only).
French (only) links :
Original link (french) :
Promotion pour OpenOffice.org To know the name of the people who contributed, and more, look at
EducOOo blog---------------------------------------
Many thanks to
Ben Bois , author of the Education Project Logo
Donate to Education Project Education Project on the wikiLibellés : EducOOo, events, free software, High Tech, OpenOffice, School, 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 ... )
Let's continue the effort !!""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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
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:
If you want to propose a ClassRoom, please contact us !"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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
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)
To be continued .. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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.
Stay tuned ..."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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
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.
Thanks a lot to all, and let's continue !""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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
