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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.
Formally : create a new branch, completely independent of , including
milestones, like OOo does
- 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).
Facts that brought us to work on this plan:
- OpenOffice.org is not well adapted to Educational world, nor to
children (7-12 there)
- OpenOffice.org has too much of features for children, and is too
complicated for them
- Performance issues : OpenOffice.org is slow on a lot of machines
(mainly the one who have 512MB of ram or less, and procs 1,5GHZ or less
we can find in most of schools)
- Lot of schools, all around the world, are poor, and will have to wait
several years before to buy new hardware
- to fit the new emergent market (netbooks, eeepc like, gdium, future
tablets (including the probable Apple one) .. and soon), OpenOffice.org
needs to provide a light version, adapted to such machines ( poor in ram
and powerless)
The ideas :
- simplify OOo and propose a light version of OOo, for example removing
Base and providing a simplified Writer and Calc versions
- experiment new features, new UI and so on, including experiment whatever
- work with students to write the code, with the goal to integrate only
the best features in OOo,
- prepare children to use OpenOffice.org
- adapt OOo for children will help to work on performance issues
- use a name adapted to children : OOo4Kids, trademarked by one or
several non profit association, to keep the project out of companies control
- there is no risk for OOo, and avoids to disturb the OOo process
Thanks in advance for your opinion
Eric Bachard
Lead,
OpenOffice.org Education Project
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Education Project:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project
Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org
Blog : http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news
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