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

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

LinkedIn
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I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Miguel Angel

Miguel Angel Betancourt Gutierrez
Ingenieria Sistemas Computacionales at Puzzle Software 
Guadalupe Area, Mexico

Confirm that you know Miguel Angel Betancourt Gutierrez
https://www.linkedin.com/e/27ec0d-gjn8eoyw-4v/isd/2252384343/fuVgpJVq/

[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

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.

ping

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

ping

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

EducOOo International Next IRC meeting

eric b — 2010-11-07T11:04:45

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

EducOOo International

eric b — 2010-10-16T08:03:29

Copie pour information



Hello,

With the idea to have a common denominator, with all the EducOOo  
websites ** recently created, like :

- educoo.be
- educoo.de
- educoo.it (not yet active)
- educoo.us
- educoo.no
- educoo.fr (points on educoo.org)

... we just created the i18n mailing list, and you can subscribe  
here :  http://listes.educoo.org/mailman/listinfo/I18n

For memory, EducOOo means Education and OpenOffice.org.


With the students contributions, the code we produce is free (under  
LGPL v3 license), what allowed to reverse some of it to  
OpenOffice.org Project, at several occasions. Of course, this is only  
possible when this code is considered as interesting, and deserves to  
be integrated in OOo.

And this is what counts at the end.

Last we do not force the websites representing EducOOo in other  
country to choose between LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org, but only to  
keep the "Education spirit", means pedagogy and teaching (what  
includes forks).


Thanks to spread the word :)


Regards,
Eric Bachard

**one told me educoo.nl, educoo.es and educoo.pt are work in progress.

EducOOo International

eric b — 2010-10-16T08:03:29

Copie pour information



Hello,

With the idea to have a common denominator, with all the EducOOo  
websites ** recently created, like :

- educoo.be
- educoo.de
- educoo.it (not yet active)
- educoo.us
- educoo.no
- educoo.fr (points on educoo.org)

... we just created the i18n mailing list, and you can subscribe  
here :  http://listes.educoo.org/mailman/listinfo/I18n

For memory, EducOOo means Education and OpenOffice.org.


With the students contributions, the code we produce is free (under  
LGPL v3 license), what allowed to reverse some of it to  
OpenOffice.org Project, at several occasions. Of course, this is only  
possible when this code is considered as interesting, and deserves to  
be integrated in OOo.

And this is what counts at the end.

Last we do not force the websites representing EducOOo in other  
country to choose between LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org, but only to  
keep the "Education spirit", means pedagogy and teaching (what  
includes forks).


Thanks to spread the word :)


Regards,
Eric Bachard

**one told me educoo.nl, educoo.es and educoo.pt are work in progress.

Create EducOOo International

eric b — 2010-10-02T08:43:58

Hello the list,

EducOOo is growing, at a point new international sites have been  
created, and we need to share the tasks.

To improve things, it was agreed to make an IRC meeting, and  
everybody interested is invited.


The meeting is scheduled :
* Thursday 14th October, 21:00 CEST (Paris, Hamburg hour)
* Channel  : #ooo4Kids
* Server : irc.freenode.net

Important:  do not forget to add your name, as attendee.

The agenda, and further information are available there : http:// 
wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/OOo4Kids:Current_events


Thanks,
Eris Bachard

team looking to join a project

Szymborski, Pawel — 2010-09-20T18:47:57

Hello Everyone,

A group of 3 computer science students and I are looking to join a
project in OpenOffice.
We are all junior/senior level and are looking to contribute for the
next 3 months.
If there are any interested groups please let me know and i will
inform the rest of my team.

OpenOffice.org HackFest 2010

Florian Effenberger — 2010-09-13T09:57:28

Dear OOo hackers,

the OOoCon just ended, and we realize how little time we can spend 
together face2face each year. To properly fix that problem, we hereby 
announce the next event around OpenOffice.org - a HackFest in Hamburg, 
specifically targeted to developers, to give all of us more face time & 
collectively work on the code.

The OpenOffice.org HackFest will take place on the weekend of November 
6./7. 2010 in Hamburg, and a tentative program could look like this:

     * Friday night - beer & fun, warming up
     * Saturday morning - Intro talks, Hands-on sessions
     * Saturday afternoon/night - collective hacking, bug fixing
     * Sunday morning - wrap-up, review, document

For those who are in need for a bursary, we have a limited travel 
funding budget available. For sleeping, couchsurfing at the organizers 
is available. Be aware that would be in an unheated loft, so bringing a 
sleeping mat and a good sleeping bag would be essential. For more 
comfortable reasonably priced acommodations see the wiki page at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Sleeping_in_Hamburg

We look forward to meet you there, stay tuned for further announcements 
around programme and sponsoring! To register yourself, just drop a short 
note to hackfest-JNqQRFIbOJOM4zKIHC2jIg< at >public.gmane.org and we'll follow up with further 
information soon.

Faithfully, your HackFest organizers

Eike, Florian & Thorsten
hackfest-JNqQRFIbOJOM4zKIHC2jIg< at >public.gmane.org

OOo4Kids1.0 is out !

fred juan diaz — 2010-08-30T16:05:02

Hi

The www.educoo.org Team (association resource to
education.openoffice.org project under lead
of Eric Bachard) is glad to inform you that
OOo4Kids1.0 is just out

Download : http://download.ooo4kids.org/

(Win, Linux Deb and Rpm, MacOs Intel and PPC)

We remind you that OOo4Kids is a lighter version of OOo
(neither Java, nor Base, nor Basic)
designed for children, and used by devs to experiment
new features and issues troubleshootings.

This new version brings many interessant features

http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Changelogs

...like possibility to increase at once fontsize in
formulas when selected with surrounding text,
fonts for dyslexics people, and new languages (Arabian,
traditional Chinese, Norvegian Bokmal...)

Some of these new features will be backported in OOo
in less than a year.


Best regards
Fred Juan Diaz

Issues 972 and 100464 solved by education.openoffice.org Team

fred juan diaz — 2010-08-27T16:00:55

education.openoffice.org Team is glad to inform you that

issue 972 (alignment of baseline in formulas)
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=972

issue 100464 (special symbols needed in formulas) 
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100464

have been solved in OOo4Kids1.0

Those works have been mentored by Eric Bachard
and tested by EducOOo team, in OOo4Kids1.0
(OOo4Kids is a light version of OOo without java, nor Base,
nor Basic, used to allow devs working on a real simplified
environment in order to backport produced code in OOo)



Cordially

Fred Juan DIAZ
(www.educoo.org)

OOo4Kids Extensibility Improvement with Python

Vishal Garg — 2010-07-28T09:19:33

Hello All,

Within the first two weeks(May 24th - June 7th) of communication with my
mentor, Prof. Eric Bachard, the plan for my internship was laid out and he
advised me to study the resources.

The Python-UNO bridge is feature complete, but has not been used extensively
and therefore may contain some bugs. It is now integrated in the
OpenOffice.org source trees. Even though it is used in OpenOffice macros but
it was not used in the OOo4Kids Project, and remained a to-do until I
started working on it.

As the environment of OOo4Kids is primarily the XO-laptop, which I emulated
on my machine using the Sugar Emulator, the macros need to be developed for
it and tested accordingly.

My work is mainly focused on how to use PyUNO with OOo4Kids and develop
standard macros to speed up tasks and later teach the basics of macro
development through the project wiki(
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page).

My biography -

I’m a 20 year old student pursuing my undergrad from Jaypee Institute of
Information Technology University, Noida with Information Technology as my
major. I have been developing applications as university projects until now
and have also have worked as a freelancer. I have just finished my junior
year and I am also a Mozilla Firefox Campus Representative at my college.

I have been following open source technologies since almost a year as a
user. Attending various FOSS events was the major highlight of this
incubation period. And now I wanted to enter the development phase so that I
can start contributing to the open source community as soon as possible.

Looking for an opportunity, I contacted Professor. Eric Bachard, University
of Technology of Belfort Montbéliard, Education project Lead, OpenOffice.org
Domain Developer, Mac OS X porting project contributor and main OOo4Kids
developer, and he assigned me the project - "OOo4Kids Extensibility
Improvement with Python".


Week 2-3
Since then I've set up my environment on Fedora, being the first one to do
it on Fedora distribution. Soon after I started lurking on the project IRC
channel and the mailing list.

Week 3-4 progress:
    Understanding of the Source Tree, and the recognized the directories
related to my work.
    Extensive reading of OpenOffice API
    Read API samples and tutorials and
    Tried code snippets.
    Advised by mentor not to dig deep into it, as PyUNO offered easier
interface.


Week 4-5
    Referred about the Universal Network Object(UNO) – very time consuming
as it was totally new for me.
    By the end of week, my mentor suggested to only concentrate on PyUNO.

Week 5- till now
    Studied PyUNO, the python binding for UNO model, took a lot of time
experimenting with scripts.
    Successfully implemented the sample scripts with OpenOffice.
    Implementing the same on Ooo4Kids, giving a lot of bugs and issues,
trying to solve them.

Since then, I'm documenting my experiences at
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/User:Vishal and would soon summarize the
whole on
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/PythonScriptability

With this experience of my internship, I have gained an ingrained confidence
with python scripting and have become comfortable with the OpenOffice API,
particularly with the python bridge – PyUNO, and I intend to contribute to
the project further with my studies.

Working under an open source culture is an experience one must have as an
software developer, and I am in rapture to embrace it.

Right now, as I am studying in Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology,
Noida, INDIA, and to prove my internship to my institute, I need a
certificate for the same. As discussed with my mentor regarding the same on
IRC today, he advised me to herald the same to the OpenOffice.org Education
Project Community and said he would respond to it and hence this mail.

With this, I sincerely request my mentor Professor. Eric Bachard, University
of Technology of Belfort Montbéliard, Education project Lead, OpenOffice.org
Domain Developer, Mac OS X porting project contributor and main OOo4Kids
developer, to kindly please confirm that I'm doing my internship with the
OpenOffice.org Education Project under his able guidance for the following
Project - "OOo4Kids Extensibility Improvement with Python" and please
provide me a certificate stating the same.

I want to assure you that my contribution won't be affected by this, I still
need a lot to do, this is really what interests me. It gives me immense
pleasure to work under the guidance of a bountiful mentor like you.

Thanking You.

Yours Sincerely,

VISHAL GARG
__________________________________
Linux User # 487206
Web : vishalgarg.in
Twitter : http://twitter.com/vishalgarg09

[Python and OOo4Kids/OpenOffice.org]

eric b — 2010-07-20T08:33:25

Hello,

For your information, Visahl Garf, a student ( from Tokelau Islands  
if I'm not confused (see -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau ),  
started to work on the interaction between OOo4Kids (by suit  
OpenOffice.org) and Python. Everything is done in english, and Vishal  
is often present on IRC ( #ooo4kids, server irc.freenode.net ).

I'm very busy with the new localization process (see http:// 
wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Localization/proposal_Transifex) I'm  
trying to implement, but if you want to work with him, his personal  
page is regularly updated, and I' m sure he'll be happy someone joins  
to help / share information with him.

Have a nice day, and happy hollidays to the other :)
Eric


Link to follow Vishal's work :  http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ 
User:Vishal

Please remove me as moderator

Raphael Bircher — 2010-07-05T01:19:24

Hi at all

I'm actualy moderator on this list. Cause of different reasons, I like 
to give up this job. so I ask to remove me from the List as moderator. 
thank you

Greetings Raphael

[Fwd: [ooo-build] [GSoC] Improve Math : IRC logs and current work inprogress]

eric — 2010-06-11T10:17:46

FYI, a point about the current work in progress (Improve Starmath 
equations editor)

Thanks,
Eric Bachard

Join

C. F. Howlett — 2010-06-07T22:09:44

Please add me to the mailing list for this project.  Thank you.