Hi Andrew,
Andrew Jensen a écrit :
one comment from an anonymous source. "Forget the QA volunteers, go find developers
to work on the project"...
That's clearly my point too : the code is the blood of OpenOffice.org,
and *tomorrow* will be done *today* by developers.
To repeat mytself, and before to see anther time the Education Project
bypassed by something else, I'd like to insist and say that find
developers is one of the main objective of the Education Project.
As example, this year, we'll mentor :
- 5 students from Ecole Centrale Nantes (France)
- 4 students (to be confirmed) from INSA Lyon (France)
- 5 students from UTBM (France) .
Note: one now, 4 the next semester)
- 4 students from University of Moratuwa ( Sri Lanka)
- 3 students from Epitech Paris (France)
-(other schools ?)
We try to teach OpenOffice.org source code from the beginning, and work
on several parts : real tasks to improve OOo, but on simple tasks one
only, or -this year- we invented OOo4Kids, to free the creativity. Other
subjects : students from Ecole Centrale Nantes will continue their work
on the Tablet PC, the one from Epitech and UTBM will work on the
OOo4Kids "Sugarization" ... an so on
For all proposals, see the Effort :
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort
e.g. see all the proposals for improving Impress:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort/Improve_Impress
Nothing is perfect, and our problem is, the number of devs mentoring
them is 3 ( Thorsten Behrens, Cedric Bosdonnat, and myself)
Our need is to have more profesional devs involved. e.g. have one dev
present periodicaly, one or two hours, answering students questions,
twice in a week could be a good idea. This means, if more developers
could join and help us, to mentor the students, this would certainly
help to find new developers for the OpenOffice.org Project.
Another idea, with OOo4Kids, is to free the imagination and the
creativity, and when it worth it, propose a backport into
OpenOffice.org. Motivation is a good motor too.
Nevertheless, and to return to the topic, I got an open proposal :
The OpenOffice.org Education project does propose ClassRooms, from time
to time, and those ClassRooms are really known and appreciated. What
about see people from QA Project present, in one Education Project
Classroom (with the idea both find QA people and devs is the same
somewhere) what they expect, to find new contributors in a ClassRoom ?
FYI : we keep all the logs on the wiki, and the IRC channel is
#education.openoffice.org server : irc.freenode.net
To propose a ClassRoom, you just have to ask us (choose the right hour
is important), and propose it on the Agenda:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_ClassRoom/Agenda
I remember, long time ago, I politely invited people from QA project to
present us the project in a ClassRoom, but they never answered me ...
sure, this does not help either :-)
Regards,
Eric Bachard
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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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