Eric,
Thanks for the background. It would be great if you can repost this to
the dev@community.a.o list if the podling is accepted. It's off topic
for this list, but very much on topic over there. Note, I've signed up
as a mentor on the proposal.
We need to convince Ian Lynch to get involved too (if he's not already),
but I'll work on him later ;-)
Ross
On 06/06/2011 23:34, eric b wrote:
Hi Ross,
Le 6 juin 11 à 23:52, Ross Gardler a écrit :
Thank you very much, I appreciate a lot :-)
Mentoring is essential in the Education Project, because our main goal,
after create a strong bridge with Educational world, was to attract new
developers.
I'm a bit lost with the Apache Fondation website. Do you have links I
could read ?
The community development PMC is at http://community.apache.org the
mailing list is d...@community.apache.org
I bookmarked them, thanks ! Anyway, I'll probably subscribe to the dev@
list, and present myself soon.
Most of our activity is on GSoC,
EducOOo applied, but for some reason we were not accepted by Google. To
be honest, I suspect something wrong, or worse on Google side.
=> the draft is here : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/GSoC2011
but we do have the occasional person going through our programme
independently. We'd like to step that up a gear, but haven't had a
great deal of success.
If we can, we'll share our know-how. Nevertheless, I must recognize it
is difficult for us, too, but we are lucky with some students who did a
great work.
See our welcome students :
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/WelcomeStudents
Maybe your existing work will finally help us realise that.
Would be great to share and improve :-)
I'll try to make it short : everything is shared online on our wiki
(most of the time). The most recent Google SoC I mentored was last year,
were I mentored Michal Spiziak :
See : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/User:MSpisiak
+
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ImproveMathEquationEditor/Baseline_AlignmentEquations
and: http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ImproveMathEquationEditor
In fact I mentored (partialy) a second student, Jonas Finnemans Jensen,
with Fridrich Strba
See :
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ooo-build/SummerOfCode/2010/Jonas
The previous Soc were in 2006 with Pierre de Filippis. It was my first
participation, and we were at the beginning og the Aqua port of
OpenOffice.org (I was the project Lead), so not much code has been
written, but there as good excuses, discovering the beast. You can find
some traces here :
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MacOSX:_Complete_User_Interface_respecting_Aqua_Human_Interface_Guidelines
, but I can find more information if you need it.
In 2007, yet for the native Mac OS X port, I mentored Ismael Merzaq:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Log_Mac_Meeting_20th_April_2007
Was more productive. See http://lebasket.free.fr/blog/
But that's not all. We use to work with students, and their schools, and
we try to explain how we hacked the code online (yet on the wiki).
Important : the OpenOffice.org developers often helped us, and they had
a big role in the story too.
More information on our list of schools who participated is available
here -> http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/WelcomeStudents
The features are proposed by teachers, and when everybody agrees, we
implement what we can.
Some examples :
New Start Center :
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/NewStartCenterBehavior
Toolbars and levels :
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ToolbarsAndUserLevel
New cursors : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/AddNewCursors
Protected preferences :
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/PasswordProtectedPreferences (the
page has been seen more than 27,000 times ... )
+ Online ClassRooms http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ClassRooms
and so on
Other features : the annotation mode, made by students from Ecole
Centrale Nantes, and reverserd to OpenOffice.org
As you can see, the list is very long, but we really can do a lot with
schools, and the Education Project is really a good compromise to
introduce FOSS.
Last but not least, I have seen some valuable developers join the list
on the incubator page, and I'm confident they will probably contribute
too :-)
Regards,
Eric Bachard
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