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
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
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
Big Buck Bunny
After the famous Elephants Dream, and after 1 year and half, here's Big Buck Bunny, the new 3D short movie only free softwares made with. Most of it has been realized using Blender (sources files are distributed under CC-by license)
You can download the movie here
hereGreat work !
Libellés : free software, fun