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Eric Bachard /OpenOffice.org Education / Linux Days Geneva 4th June 2009

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Speaker

Eric BachardProfessor of Applied Physics

at l'UTBM ( http://www.utbm.fr )Contributor since end 2003

Domain developer ( core dev. ) since 2005Ex-Co Lead Porting Project (2006-2007) Lead, OpenOffice.org Education Project

http://www.utbm.fr/


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The OpenOffice.org Project, is ...

A Community Project, Itself organized in (a lot of) projects


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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


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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


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OpenOffice.org is localized

In around 100 langs


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The Francophone project (fr) Is of a

Native Lang project type


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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


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Role of the « Incubators » projects

● Experiment● Validate a new need● Innovate and make the OpenOffice.org Project

progress


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Education Project is

an incubator andINTERNATIONAL

project type


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The goals of the Education Project ?

This is a young project,Belonging to OpenOffice.org

with the main goal tocreate a bridge

between Educational World and OpenOffice.org


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Approximatively 100 members,Students, developers (mostly)

From all countriesAll participate to OpenOffice.org

' Who ' is the Education Project ?


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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


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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


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1er Objective : creation of the network of teachers

● Notion of Academical correspondent (all levels)● Don't stay isolated, inform, animate …

See (french link): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Fr-EDUCATION

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Fr-EDUCATION


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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 resourcesThrough a 1901 law non profit association: EducOOo

2nd Objective : provide a sharing area


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Transition …


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What is EducOOo ?


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… this is a french 1901 law type non profit association ,

Who aims to be a ressourcefor the

OpenOffice.org Education project

http://www.educoo.org

http://www.educoo.org/


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The result …


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Sharing areaThe association website: http://www.educoo.org/

EducOOo's blog : http://educooo.blogspot.com/ Campus Libre : http://campus-libre.educoo.org

Mailing Lists : http://www.educoo.org/pages/contribuer/

http://www.educoo.org/

http://educooo.blogspot.com/

http://campus-libre.educoo.org/

http://www.educoo.org/pages/contribuer/


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Campus Libre : http://campus-libre.educoo.org

already 120 usersLess than a year old

Contributions concern now more than 12 courses

(lot of) documents waiting for validation



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Other future actions…

● Documents mutualization(free licenses, open formats)

● Maybe a day .. : cooperate for new documents creation (cf Sesamath)


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and … Work in cooperation with other non profit associations and free projects :

SesamathOfsetAFULApril

EdulibreKolektiScenari

FramaSoft....


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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


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Already started actions

● Online Courses « ClassRooms »● Projects with engineers schools students, and shools contributions


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ClassRooms

Online Courses ( IRC )

See:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/ClassRoom

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/ClassRoom


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Education Project Effort

● Mentored projects with active participation of the schools

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort



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Schools who joined the project

Epitech/Epita (Paris, France)École Centrale Nantes (Nantes, France

UTBM (Sévenans, France) Seneca College (Toronto Canada)

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Examples

Mozilla 1.7.5 → Seamonkey 1.1.14 migration (Pierre Pasteau / Epitech Paris ) QA in progress, will be integrated

Developers who contributed : Frank Schönheit (Sun MicroSystems), Eric Bachard (unaffiliated)


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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


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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


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Other example : Seneca College, Toronto

Professor : Fardad Soleimanloo(4 projects started, expected for Summer 09)

All other proposed subjects :




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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


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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)


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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 !!


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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)


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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


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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 … )


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Howto contribute to Ooo4Kids ?

Wiki : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org

Mailing lists (french) : http://listes.educoo.org/mailman/listinfo/users

(contact us ?)

http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/

http://listes.educoo.org/mailman/listinfo/users


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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


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Demonstration ...


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Contact us (development)

IRC : server irc.freenode.netChannel : #education.openoffice.org

Mailing lists: [email protected]

Project : http://education.openoffice.org

mailto:[email protected]

http://education.openoffice.org/


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Want to help us ?

Propose subjects for studentsProvide feedback of boring bugs in your dayly use of

OOo when teachingImprove the look of our wiki (easy)

Improve our WebsiteDonate ?

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Links Wiki Education Project :

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project

EducOOo blog : http://educooo.blogspot.com/

Campus Libre: http://campus-libre.educoo.org

FSOSS 2008 : http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2008/

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project

http://educooo.blogspot.com/


http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2008/


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Thank you to ...

The Linux Days OrganizationMickaël Dupont for the logistic

Fridrich Strba and his wonderfull family :)

Ben Bois for his logos (ben at hooboo dot com )


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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 ....


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To download this presentation :http://eric.bachard.free.fr/Education/LinuxDays2009

http://eric.bachard.free.fr/Education/LinuxDays2009


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Licence

Appendix

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