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
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.
To be continued."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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
