lundi, janvier 11, 2010

Welcome to new students joining the OpenOffice.org Education Project

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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 Project

Many thanks to Ben Bois , author of the EducOOo logo, dedicated to the OpenOffice.org Education Project
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samedi, novembre 14, 2009

OOo4Kids.activity.xo is available !

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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 there

Next 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.

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vendredi, janvier 30, 2009

Campaign for OpenOffice.org in French schools

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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

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Many thanks to Ben Bois , author of the Education Project Logo

Donate to Education Project

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jeudi, mai 29, 2008

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 here

Great work !

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