gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.education

[education-dev] Open source education initiative

Alexandro Colorado — 2011-06-01T20:17:32

For quite a few months I have been working on talks around the issue of
teaching the culture of contribution across FLOSS projects. Since this
initiative goal is to prepare students to learn the open source
methodologies as well as it tools. These processes should be avialabile
since High school and college level students that aim to develop or
contribute software.

Teaching the platform includes learning the basics on how to use the
following tools such as:

   - Mailing lists
   - IRC
   - Wiki
   - Issue tracker
   - Source Code Management tool
   - Testing
   - Documentation practices
   - Localization practices
   - Codign guidelines

I most confess that I am no expert of everyone and even lack the experince
of some, however this initiative will try to create material easy to follow
so that the target can learn best practices to use such tools and can
integrate to any FLOSS community. This project however will use
OpenOffice.org as the base for their examples and process, trusthing that
other projects handle in similar fashion.

The name of the initiative would be WayOOo as the "way to do things in
floss". This will be a beta name if people have other proposals please
submit as well.

I hope that volunteers join the project, I will start a wikipage giving the
outline of the project currently at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/WayOOo

[education-dev] OOo4Kids 1.2 is out

eric b — 2011-04-22T06:36:40

Hello the list,


EducOOo is proud to announce OOo4kids 1.2 , for Windows, Mac OS X,  
and Linux is out.

17 locales are available, and for Linux .rpm archives are available.  
For Debian or Ubuntu, please read the information on the link below.

Further information: http://eric.bachard.org/news

Exact link : http://eric.bachard.org/news/index.php?post/2011/04/04/ 
OOo4Kids-1.2-is-out



Thanks !
Eric Bachard

Re: [dev] ARM port

eric b — 2011-02-15T11:28:10

Hi,

Apologies ...


Le 15 févr. 11 à 12:08, eric b a écrit :

... I was too fast : PandaBoard is multi core. I have some doubts OOo  
will use both, but worth a try.

Anyway, this will not solve the performance issue at launching time


Regards,
Eric

Re: [dev] ARM port

eric b — 2011-02-15T11:08:47

Le 15 févr. 11 à 11:54, Rene Engelhard a écrit :



Hi René,




Sorry, but I tend to disagree : can you please tell me the arm  
version choosen by default in OOo source code ? I'm just working at  
the optimization and what I see, tells me it's not optimized at all.

But I can be wrong, and you'll tell me then ...


It is obvious, that the current OpenOffice.org can run (I know) on  
current ARM, but will be slow as hell on the machine anybody can buy,  
today. Nobody will use that, and a lot of work is mandatory.


Of course, you can acceed experimental boards, or not-public  
machines, what is different.





Yes, but where do you buy such machines *today* ? And so far, the  
only multi-core ARM I'm aware is the OMAP5 : scheduled somewhere in 2012

The reality, today says : you can buy development boards, including  
OMAP4 (like Pandaboard), and is not multi-core.


Regards,
Eric

Re: Re: [dev] ARM port

eric b — 2011-02-15T09:58:40

Hi Ian


Looks like I had to moderate your mail (probably not subscribed ?)

Le 15 févr. 11 à 10:47, Ian Lynch a écrit :



That's one role of the OpenOffice.org Education Project to innovate,  
and try new tracks.

Unfortunaly, we didn't receive too much of support, including lot of  
promises, but nothing serious ...



Regards,
Eric


P.S. : OO4Kids (not optimized ) is available as pre-installed version  
for OMAP3 + Angstrom Linux here : http://ftp.educoo.org/home/OOo4Kids/ 
Linux_ARM/OMAP3/
(provided as it, as experimental try, and you use it at your own risk )

Re: Re: [dev] ARM port

Ian Lynch — 2011-02-15T09:47:32

Certainly a version of OOo that works well on ARM technologies is very
important for the future. It could even be the case that if there isn't such
a thing, the project will become largely irrelevant.

On 15 February 2011 09:38, eric b <eric.bachard-GANU6spQydw< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: [dev] ARM port

eric b — 2011-02-15T09:38:15

Hi Caolan,

Le 15 févr. 11 à 10:26, Caolán McNamara a écrit :


Sure. But the current port is generic and needs some improvements at  
several places anyway, plus, the current OpenOffice.org is unusable  
on such machines.

To be honest, only a stripped down version like OOoLight or OOo4Kids  
is today - sort of- correct to my eyes.


But even if it works, other issues jump, and  my question was more  
about innovate and search new ideas. Working with students would be  
even better :)


Regards,
Eric

Re: [dev] ARM port

Caolán McNamara — 2011-02-15T09:26:44

OpenOffice.org is already ported to Linux ARM, oabi and eabi, le and
be.

C.

ARM port

eric b — 2011-02-15T09:15:50

[Please FU2 dev-SHJOiGGTJBSToUgMB6yzDbvmJFcs9bad< at >public.gmane.org ]


Hello,


Anybody working on ARM port ? Or interested to try ?

As experimental test, I did the native OOo4Kids  build on OMAP3, and  
work on new features (to be backported in OOo) could constitute a  
good study case for beginners in OOo source code.



Thanks,
Eric Bachard

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

Miguel Angel Betancourt Gutierrez — 2011-02-01T19:58:54

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[long] Integrate an extension in the code at buildtime : what do with bitmaps ?

eric b — 2011-01-03T09:36:25

Hi,

Happy New Year to all of you, and the best for 2011 !  :-)


I'm currently working on integrate a nice and existing C++ extension,  
but directly in the code, means at buildtime. To summarize, if I  
integrate the lib (written in C++) in the scp2 .. and so on system,  
there is no problem at all, the packaging is ok and it works fine in  
the install set.

In fact, everything works fine, but the icons are not seen, because  
simply not found  :-/


To explain more, the first point is, after tracing a bit, that the  
"NormalFileName" property is used to retrieve the right bitmap  
(please correct me if I'm wrong). As example, looking at the original  
name, we have (in the .xcu) :

<node oor:name="Background">
   <prop oor:name="NormalFileName">
<value>bitmaps/Background.png</value>
   </prop>

And in the extension, it appears that the relative path is used,  
means the library is in :
extension/random_name/libThing.${DLL_EXTENSION}

... while the .png are in :
extension/random_name/bitmaps/*.png

This happens to work ok, of course. Am I correct to suppose that the  
relative path is used, or did I miss something ?


My tries now : using the other existing .xcu as example and trying to  
respect the schema ( .xcs file), I did the what follows:

<node oor:name="Background">
   <prop oor:name="NormalFileName">
<value>"$(insturl)/share/config/bitmaps/Background.png"</value>
   </prop>
... and so on

It does not work, but the idea is

1) put the library using those icons in  $(insturl)/program (like all  
the other libs in fact ...)
2) use the path above to retrieve the icons.

I must say I tested absolute and relative paths, without success.

For example :
<value>xlink:href="$(insturl)/share/config/bitmaps/Background.png"</ 
value>

or :
<value>xlink:href="../share/config/bitmaps/Background.png"</value>


Last, the documentation I have read is :

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ 
Extensions/Checklist_for_Writing_Extensions
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ 
Extensions/Example
+  a lot of .xcs / .xcu shipped in the OOO3.2.1 code base

Feel free to ask me if I forgot some information, and thanks in  
advance for any help  :-)

Eric Bachard

Re: ping

Marina Latini — 2010-12-10T07:42:19

ping :)

Hello everybody

Miguel Angel Betancourt Gutierrez — 2010-12-10T06:32:05

Hello everybody, my name is Miguel and I would like to contribute to OOo
doing my best. I hope we can be good friends,and work together. About my
knowledge; I know about servers in the area of support and maintenance,
virtualization, a little of networking, etc.. I want to be part of OOo
because I think it's an important part of the Free Software, I identify a
lot with OOo because I like the way you work because you have a strong
belief in workgroups. I hope I can contribute and do my best for the team
and for us. I think that's all and well thank you very much for you
attention.

Re: ping

Miguel Angel Betancourt Gutierrez — 2010-12-10T06:24:10

ping

ping

Alexandro Colorado — 2010-12-10T06:05:56

ping

Re: Internship at Open Office

Alexandro Colorado — 2010-11-30T12:09:53


I got this email without any issue.

Re: Internship at Open Office

eric b — 2010-11-30T12:02:54

Hi,


This time, I won't be busy because of the Google summer of camp, and  
you can count me in.


Regards,
Eric Bachard



P.S. : there is something strange with OOo server, because I no  
longer receive the mails I post on any OOo lists :/


Le 30 nov. 10 à 10:06, Jürgen Schmidt a écrit :

Re: Internship at Open Office

Malte Timmermann — 2010-11-30T10:15:29

Or better - simply start coding for OOo w/o waiting for a new internship
program :)

Malte.

Jürgen Schmidt wrote, On 11/30/10 10:06:

Re: Internship at Open Office

Jürgen Schmidt — 2010-11-30T09:06:51

Hi Soma,

the internship program for 2010 is finished but we hope that we can run
a similar project next year again. Please watch for an appropriate
announcement and apply in time next year.

Juergen

On 11/29/10 1:06 PM, Rakesh soma wrote:

Internship at Open Office

Rakesh soma — 2010-11-29T12:06:28

Hey,
        I am interested in working as an intern in Open Office for the
graphical user interface (Improve the Impress slideshow) project. Can you
please send me the details of how to apply for this. Attached is  my resume.

EducOOo International Next IRC meeting

eric b — 2010-11-09T06:17:46

[mail resent directly, because no echo yet]

Hi all,

As proposed the last meeting (was Thursday 4 November 21:00 CET), the  
next IRC meeting will occur the 11 November, same hour on #ooo4Kids  
channel as usual).

FYI, the minutes of the meeting (and the log), are available : http:// 
wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Current_events/ 
LogEducOOoInternationalCreation4November2010

Everybody interested is welcome.



Thanks,
Eric Bachard