OpenOffice.org Down Under!

At last after a month of rooming at #education.openoffice.org I started coding. It is big relief. Few days back ericb started a game of fixing warnings in old module binfilter which is not used much in OOo now. But as it goes any project needs to keep warnings as low as possible.
/me has some experience with python, perl, C but nothing with C++ but this game seems to be nice way to get started. ;-) So, I started an effort. And I am updating here about my progress on daily basis now.
It has been a wonderful experience at verious classrooms and sessions held on #irc channel.

Keep tuned will post about experience with classrooms in detail some time soon.

--
Rakesh Pandit

I have just received a Mac-mini, a little computer from Macintosh company. With this new machine I can start to work to improve the scanner use under OpenOffice.org MacPort.

But I never used MacOs before, so the first step now is to set-up a complete developement environement under MacOS X Tiger. (Yes I don't have Leopard ...). I'm starting to have a look about Xcode, some tips for the dev with Mac Os and so. Don't hesitate to give me some feedback about that.

I really would like thanks obr who gave it to the OpenOffice Education Project ! I really hope that I will make a good use of it.

And naturally I will try to give some news about my progression in this task. Stay stuned !

Hi,

After some regular discussions with Vikram Vincent and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay on IRC,I think we can start the ClassRoom program we scheduled some times ago.

Objective: help beginners willing to contribute, to discover the
development side of OpenOffice.org project, and try to solve, or at
least provide some light to : " What, Where, Who, How , Whom ask ..."
questions any newcomer asks.

The logs will be put on the wiki, thus all the community will be able
to access the knowledge, and I expect to see the developers I
contacted to confirm they will contribute.


Because this is the first one, we'll start with the beginning, and
I'll (exceptionaly) start myself the ClassRoom.

Proposed Date: Wednesday 7th of May 2008,
Hour : 11:00 ( Paris hour ) ~ 14:30 India hour ( i.e; Vincent
hour ;-) )
Mode: as IRC meeting. Server : irc.freenode.net Channel :
#education.openoffice.org


Content :

Part 1:

1) Discover the OpenOffice.org project

Other points, suggested by Vincent Vikram :

2) where is the code
3) I got the code ... now where do I start in the code ?
4) What do I need to know in advance
5) How good is the documentation documentation


Part 2:
Questions from the attendees

Part 3:

Round table with students, and developers, + define the agenda for
the next ClassRooms, including other questions to be prepared in advance



Suggestions ? Opinions ?

Last but not least, please note carefully:

- we have choosen the IRC way, because unfortunaly, not everybody has
a nice Internet connexion, with good bandwidth, and so on.
- if you have a proposal for a better way of communication, please
propose, and organize it !!
- Everything about the content (the log), and _after_ the
presentation (comments, additional links ..etc) will be on the wiki
- ALL contributions are WELCOME : means such thing will work if and
only if _several_ people join the effort and contribute, because we
have to do everything from scratch.


Best regards,
Eric Bachard

Report in press and resource.
Photos are here and there.

Today, George Armah, student at Lafayette College of Easton (Pennsylvania), joined the #ooo_macport IRC channel, because he wanted to propose ideas for a potential Google SoC application.

After a short discussion about what George had in mind to make Aqua version more Mac like, I proposed him the right people to be contacted.

Afterwards, we continued to discuss a bit, and the usual problem appeared:

- lost on the wiki ...
- whom ask ?
- who does what ...
- how start progressively for Mac OS X port (works for any other port )

After all these (normal) questions, I explained there is Education Project, and presented the existing Education Project effort, including the spirit of the task.

Glad to see George enjoyed :)

I hope to see more students joining, but don't forget, teachers are welcome too ;-)

Thanks to Thorsten Behrens, from Novell, who updated the information in new canvas implementation using Core Graphic on Mac OS X .

Just my imagination, but this application, belonging to Education Project effort, could become a nice Google Summer of Code too.

Our role is to accompany the peers teacher/student in the OpenOffice.org Project discovery.

Are you student, and interested to join ?

IRC :
server irc.freenode.net
channel #education.openoffice.org

Mailing list. dev@education.openoffice.org is the good one (please subscribe before)

You want to discover Education Project ? => read our Welcome !

An effort (thanks to the UNO Team for the definition) consists of the following things:

* a goal or a mission,
* to solve a problem,
* while using a solution,
* optionally having a time plan,
* a list of things which need to be done, these may directly be some content (e.g. specifications, implementations, tests, articles) or other efforts, and
* a status (e.g. planned, in progress, finished, cancelled).


To discover new developers and build a bridge between OpenOffice.org Project and Educational System, OpenOffice.org Education Project proposes applications, doable in one or two month of work for a student ( time to discover everything, and do the real work). All these applications below are correlated with IssueZilla issues, and need new code to be solved.

What we propose is to accompany the peers teachers/students solving the issues: the work must be done by the student, and we are resources. This means, most of the time, we have no clue about the solution (but we could work on it), or the needed changes, and sometimes, just a little change in the code can solve the issue. Sometimes, a lot of code can be needed.

The most important is to work together, and make the students discover OpenOffice.org source code and organisation.

The applications are classed

- by difficulty level (more stars means means more work and more difficult to be solved )

- by themes, e.g. Mac OS X


For further information, please look Education Project Effort



Want to contact us ?

IRC :
serveur irc.freenode.net
channel #education.openoffice.org

Mailing list. dev@education.openoffice.org is the good one (please subscribe before)

You want to discover Education Project ? => read our Welcome !