Martin Hollmichel wrote:
eric.bachard wrote:
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Hi all,
Proposal :
The OpenOffice.org Education Project proposes to drive the following
experimentation :
- create a dedicated branch in the OOo source code repository (means
hosted by OOo Project) for a 7-12 years software, derivated from
OpenOffice.org, and made and maintained by OpenOffice.org project.
I like and support this idea,
me too and i support the idea as well. I was a big fan of
StarOffice4Kids project with more or less the same idea.
Formally : create a new branch, completely independent of , including
milestones, like OOo does
what do you mean by completly independent ? I would expect that this
branch should kept in sync with OOo releases ?
a good question and i also thought about it. Everything Eric described
is valid and important for the main code base as well. Terms like
modularization, performance, customization etc. come into my mind. It's
nothing really new and things are already ongoing.
Work on the same things should be done on the same code base. For
example Eric talked about performance. Edu performance projects could be
seen as sub projects of the performance project with a special focus on
educational things, maybe driven as university project ...
The really new stuff from a user perspective is the interaction with
this specific user group kids, the OO users of tomorrow. This is from my
point of view very important and can be partly achieved or addressed
with a customizable UI. A lot of things are possible already today but
can be improved and many other things are missing. And the things that
are missing can be useful in the normal office as well.
I would expect the same code base but customized for the specific needs
of kids. A minimized feature set and a kids related UI etc. A special
branded and customized OpenOffice version if you want.
Looking on the code base i would see it on top of the existing
OpenOffice base layer, reusing exactly the same code basis ...
Anyway it's a very good idea and i will support it where i can.
Juergen
- work with schools and students to improve the software
- innovate about performances and cooperate with the performance
project in this area
- (add your idea)
Resources : to be defined, but the non profit association EducOOo (
http://www.educoo.org ) is already candidate to manage that
(e.g.receive sponsoring for the software, machines for students, and
so on).
Martin
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