Hi all, Ian Lynch wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:41 +0000, John McCreesh wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 11:21 +0000, Ian Lynch wrote: >> [snip] >>> What would be useful is versions of the documentation targeted on >>> younger age groups. If at some point a version of OOo that had a user >>> interface designed for young children - fewer and larger icons, default >>> font that was large and the type script kids use to learn to read there >>> would be a massive market since many of these use specialist tools other >>> than MS Office for this in any case. >> None of this sounds particularly difficult to do: >> >> Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View->Scaling >> Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View->Icon >> View->Toolbars->Customise >> >> And then prepare some simple documentation with screenshots from this >> 'KidzOOo' >> >> Sounds like a good schools project to me? > > Indeed. I'll ask around and see if I can get some of the Gold INGOT kids > to do it as a project. > >> John >> (totally ignorant of the education market) > > Some things that seem simple can be more difficult. In essence we could > certainly get part of the way to KidzOOo by the approach above but we > could hit unforeseen snags that only a specialist in teaching little > kids would spot (I'm more 11-18 age group). But its worth trying and if > I can get some of the INGOT students doing it, at worst it raises their > awareness that OOo exists. I just heard unofficially that the INGOT > certificates are going to be approved for school use from April which > means that schools will be a lot more willing to do Gold INGOT projects > in mainstream time as the certificates will count towards a school's > position in the national school league tables. We need older more able > kids to do these sort of projects and while we have had a good take up > of the Bronze and Silver they are not designed to support community > projects just to build capability in getting to that point. Eventually > we will do a Platinum INGOT suitable for university entrance and these > projects will then realistically tackle coding and give more flexibility > but that is probably a couple of years off. One thing I can suggest > students do is contribute to learning materials for OOo, eg devise a > Moodle course for using OOo Writer. Moodle has around 1 million teacher > users who are not by any means all users of OOo so Moodle would be a > good vector for OOo marketing since it at least has got the idea of Open > Source to a lot of people. So contributing to the Moodle community and > the OOo community is good for both.
I've already work on such a version (I call it for myself KidOOo ;-), primary on playing with OOo registry and .xcu files. There is a lot you can achieve in customization once you've figured how it works. I'm still going on writing some documentations on it (in French atm). So if I can help, just tell me. Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
