The OpenOffice.org Project, is... A Community Project, Itself organized in (a lot of) projects

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2 Speaker Eric Bachard Professor of Applied Physics at l'utbm ( ) Contributor since end 2003 Domain developer ( core dev. ) since 2005 Ex-Co Lead Porting Project ( ) Lead, OpenOffice.org Education Project 2

3 The OpenOffice.org Project, is... A Community Project, Itself organized in (a lot of) projects 3

4 Types of Projects There are 3 project types in OpenOffice.org organization Accepted : code developpement (API, modules), Marketing, QA,... Incubator : new experimental projects : Education, Extensions Native lang : native lang communities 4

5 Rôle of «Native Lang» projects Assist the users in their native lang Documentation : FAQ, tutorials, guides, and so on. Traduction of the software Quality Assurance of the translated locale Relay of the marketing actions, international lobbying 5

6 OpenOffice.org is localized In around 100 langs 6

7 The Francophone project (fr) Is of a Native Lang project type 7

8 Howto participate to the fr project? Helping the users Elaborate the FR documentation Sharing templates, macros, and so on Quality Assurance : QA Tests : validation of the FR versions Review of unconfirmed issues Developing extensions Participate to the informative actions 8

9 Role of the «Incubators» projects Experiment Validate a new need Innovate and make the OpenOffice.org Project progress 9

10 Education Project is an incubator and INTERNATIONAL project type 10

11 The goals of the Education Project? This is a young project, Belonging to OpenOffice.org with the main goal to create a bridge between Educational World and OpenOffice.org 11

12 ' Who ' is the Education Project? Approximatively 100 members, Students, developers (mostly) From all countries All participate to OpenOffice.org 12

13 The limits of the OpenOffice.org project.. An Open Source project does not allow to manage money (donations, sponsors, travel founding for events.. ) Money management slow, complicated Not enough of flexibility for innovation Inertia Structure not always well adapted 13

14 The 3 main objectives of Education Project : Create a network of teachers using OpenOffice.org Provide a space for exchanging pedagogical contents, under free file formats Teach, provide young (core-)developers to write code for OpenOffice.org 14

15 1er Objective : creation of the network of teachers Notion of Academical correspondent (all levels) Don't stay isolated, inform, animate See (french link): 15

16 2nd Objective : provide a sharing area Not possible with the current structure : Missing (or not adapted) tools Make a change accepted takes too much of energy/time Creativity needs independence Retained Solution : find external resources Through a 1901 law non profit association: EducOOo 16

17 Transition 17

18 What is EducOOo? 18

19 this is a french 1901 law type non profit association, Who aims to be a ressource for the OpenOffice.org Education project 19

20 The result 20

21 Sharing area The association website: EducOOo's blog : Campus Libre : Mailing Lists : 21

22 Campus Libre : already 120 users Less than a year old Contributions concern now more than 12 courses (lot of) documents waiting for validation 22

23 Other future actions Documents mutualization (free licenses, open formats) Maybe a day.. : cooperate for new documents creation (cf Sesamath) 23

24 and Work in cooperation with other non profit associations and free projects : Sesamath Ofset AFUL April Edulibre Kolekti Scenari FramaSoft... 24

25 3ème Objectif : provide new developers Idea : Associate : theory (les professeurs) The know how (professional developers) The actors (students, profs, and so on) Mentors (OpenOffice.org Project developers) The needs (features for OpenOffice.org) Providing developers 25

26 Already started actions Online Courses «ClassRooms» Projects with engineers schools students, and shools contributions 26

27 ClassRooms Online Courses ( IRC ) See: 27

28 Education Project Effort Mentored projects with active participation of the schools 28

29 Schools who joined the project Epitech/Epita (Paris, France) École Centrale Nantes (Nantes, France UTBM (Sévenans, France) Seneca College (Toronto Canada) 29

30 Examples Mozilla Seamonkey migration (Pierre Pasteau / Epitech Paris ) QA in progress, will be integrated Developers who contributed : Frank Schönheit (Sun MicroSystems), Eric Bachard (unaffiliated) 30

31 Examples Aude Quintana, Olivier Girardot (École Centrale Nantes): implementation of the eraser features, with Tablet PC and Impress. Code review in progress. Developers who contributed : Thorsten Behrens (Novell) Managed by Morgan Magnin, for Ecole Centrale Nantes 31

32 Examples Frédéric Gelot, Pierre-Jean Parot (École Centrale Nantes): annotations implementation with Tablet PC and Impress Developers who contributed : Thorsten Behrens (Novell) Managed by Morgan Magnin, for ECN 32

33 Other example : Seneca College, Toronto Professor : Fardad Soleimanloo (4 projects started, expected for Summer 09) All other proposed subjects : 33

34 Scheduled Project (july to december 2009 ): Thomas Fontenay, Abdelkader Bellabes ( Epitech Paris ) : performance improvement of OOo4Kids on powerless machines (include backport to OpenOffice.org for the most interesting solutions), profiling, User Interface Improvement Developers : Pierre Pasteau, Eric Bachard Managed by Julien Ballet for Epitech Paris 34

35 Conclusions The creation of reliable relations with engineers schools from everywhere works well (promising) This project does only need help.. We miss - developpers - sponsors - mainly money in fact (founding travel, hardware) 35

36 Tracks for the future... Teach OpenSource Example of Seneca College Toronto : propose an OpenSource curricula assumed by OpenOffice.org source code skilled professors Work Sugar Labs, MIT( Machines XO + OOo4Kids) Other project in progress : Ooo4Kids!! 36

37 What OOo4Kids is? A light and fast OpenOffice.org version : without Base without Math without Java Dedicated to the 7-12 years working everywhere (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) 37

38 Why? Born from teachers requests : Schools often own old machine Schools often own powerless machines Chidren do not need all the features OpenOffice.org does provide The User Interface is too complicated 38

39 And Allows to propose lot of applications to the students! Forces to work in collaboration with teachers for every feature We can innovate We can «profile» (performance improvements, with the idea to «backport» the best improvements inside OpenOffice.org ( lot of other gooe reasons ) 39

40 Howto contribute to Ooo4Kids? Wiki : Mailing lists (french) : (contact us?) 40

41 Current state of OOo4Kids Using OpenOffice.org development source code (future 3.2) The demand of creation of a new official and dedicated branch will be made soon to be continued 41

42 Demonstration... 42

43 Contact us (development) IRC : server irc.freenode.net Channel : #education.openoffice.org Mailing lists: dev@education.openoffice.org Project : 43

44 Want to help us? Propose subjects for students Provide feedback of boring bugs in your dayly use of OOo when teaching Improve the look of our wiki (easy) Improve our Website Donate?... 44

45 Links Wiki Education Project : EducOOo blog : Campus Libre: FSOSS 2008 : 45

46 Thank you to... The Linux Days Organization Mickaël Dupont for the logistic Fridrich Strba and his wonderfull family :) Ben Bois for his logos (ben at hooboo dot com ) 46

47 thank you too to... Nicolas Jeudy, Jean-Marie Lafon, Frédéric Diaz, Mathieu Lalanne, Rémi Boulle, Pierre Pasteau, Bastien Guerry, Morgan Magnin, Frédéric Gelot, Pierre-Jean Parot, Aude Quitana, Olivier Girardot, Jonathan Winandy, tous les autres élèves de l'ecn qui ont participé, Alexis Kaufmann, Isabelle Hurbain, Frédéric Ollivier, Rakesh Pandit, Alexandro Colorado, Thorsten Behrens, Philipp Lohmann, Stephan Schaefer, Herbert Duerr, Frank Schonheit, Fridrich Strba, Marie Claude Dugré, Jean- Pierre Archambault, Isa Zen, Vincent Backeljau, La Fondation Gdium, Patrick Sinz, OLPC France, Thierry de Vulpillières,.. et tous ceux que j'oublie... 47

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