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
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
Recent OOo4Kids progress
Reading the
OOo4Kids recent changelogs, I see
Thomas and
Abdel did serious progress with the
OOo4Kids Sugarization !
Glad to see serious and brillant students contributing !! For the one who did not understand, OOo4Kids is a
product of the Education Project: everything we implement in OOo4Kids is something we can teach, and explain to the students. As you can see, more time goes and more we can change things, and this brings a real motivation to them.
From my side, I continued to work at the
new Writer assistant for OOo4Kids. Last thing I did was to define a value for the
SID_NEW_SW slot ID. Better read
the cookbook.
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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 : development, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Sugar, XO
3 XO's for OOo4Kids and the Education Project
This blog entry aims to say thank you the the OLPC / Sugar project.Indeed, some time ago,
Thomas Fontenay and Abdelkader Bellabes applied for the
OLPC Contributor Program, and we recently had to defend our project (I was invited too on the IRC channel), to explain what we aim to do, our plan, and so on.
To complete the project description,
Pierre Pasteau, and Julien Ballet (
Labfree) are our contacts at
Epitech.
The result is, Abdelkader and Thomas will receive
3 machines : 2 XO's and one XO 1.5 (next XO generation) early september. The plan is to sugarize
OOo4Kids, and help to improve performance. Last, in the case the code is good enough, we'll ask for backporting it in OpenOffice.org.
Another good news:
Bastien Guerry, from
OLPC-France, has been designed as contact and mentor, and we'll work together on this project. The idea is to connect both the OLPC project people, and the
OpenOffice.org one, and see what this synergy can bring.
A presentation, where we'll invite other students, will be scheduled at Epitech Paris (organized by the
Labfree) somewhere in
October 2009.
Next step for the students will be to propose a planning, and start tasks based on the most important
performance issues OpenOffice.org has. Things will be very progressive, and we'll start firstly with what is concerned (which part of the code), what it the associated tool to be used, and how to proceed to verify what happens. e.g. at cold startup, and so on.
If you want to follow the progress, and what they exactly do, everything is on the
OpenOffice.org wiki.
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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
...
Libellés : Education Project, Epitech Paris, High Tech, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Sugar, Teaching OpenSource
