Education Project/Welcome en
This is Education project Logo :
Author : Ben Bois ( ben at hooboo dot com )
What is Education project ?
In OpenOffice.org, everything is project. And all websites starts using the rule : http://$(project).OpenOffice.org
e.g. : http://education.openoffice.org
We are not exactly a project yet, but incubator project.
Means we are at the beginning, and we need to do a lot before to become a real project.
... we need you !
Our Mission
In 3 points
- Provide a place for OpenOffice.org users, in Education context: discuss about adapt OpenOffice.org to your pedagogy, your needs ..etc (all levels of Education are concerned )
- Provide and promote tools adapted to pedagogical use, around OpenOffice.org
- Write code together : we can teach you everything about OpenOffice.org code and how add your: just go ahead
OUR SPONSORS
(any candidate ? :-) )
PARTNERS are non profit Organisations
If you are a school, and want to support us, please add you in the list :
University of Technology of Belfort Montebeliard : http://www.utbm.fr [6]
What can you do to help us ?
GOT A SUGGESTION ? WANT TO DO OR PROPOSE SOMETHING ?
Just do it !! ...and see below what fits at the best to your needs !
CONTRIBUTE
Student, Professor, developer ( C++ , Objective-C , C, Python, everything website) , sponsor or volunteer, you cetainly can help us, and be welcome in Education project !!
With us, you can learn :
- how OpenOffice.org source code is organized
- which tools we use
- how build OpenOffice.org for your Operating System
- how is sheduled a new feature implementation
- how is managed the QA
- how works the part you want to understand
- what do if you want to add something
- what do if you want to create an extension
- how define applications for your students adapted to OpenOffice.org
- how become a Domain Developer for OpenOffice.org project
Last: we are interested to provide courses about OpenOffice.org. ALl suggestions are welcome !
DONATE
FIXME ( work in progress )
SEARCH TOOLS about EDUCATION and OpenOffice.org
We do provide tools using OpenOffice.org and adapted to your pedagogy. Every time we can, we try to provide
PROVIDE US EXPERTISE
Are you using OpenOffice.org in your courses/studies ? Please :
- let us know wich School you represent - what you did - provide us pedagogical notices adapted to teaching
Where start ?
MAILING LISTS
Just subscribe to dev@education.openoffice.org (highly advised) at : http://education.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList [3]
Archives are extremely important, and are usefull to retrieve something being discussed long time ago.
WEB
Fixed informations are on Education project website : [1] http://education.openoffice.org
You'll find : links for tools, links for exchange area FIXME ( add some of them )
WIKI
Alive informations stand in our wiki : [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project
Localized wiki pages :
French page :
Switzerland ( german at this time) : [3] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Project_EDUCATION-ch
(other ) : TODO
IRC
Discuss with us !
We have an IRC channel and you can meet us for true:
Server is irc.freenode.net Channel is #education.openoffice.org
See you :-)
REGULAR IRC MEETINGS
We do regular IRC meetings, and all logs are public.
You'll find them here : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Previous_Education_Meetings_logs [4]
If you want to join, please have a look at : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_IRC_meetings [5]
LINKS (summary )
The main website : http://education.openoffice.org [1]
The Wiki : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project [2]
Mailing list list : http://education.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList [3]
Logs of previous Education IRC Meetings : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Previous_Education_Meetings_logs [4]
Education IRC meetings : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_IRC_meetings [5]
University of Technology of Belfort Montbeliard : http://www.utbm.fr [6]
Incubator projects : http://projects.openoffice.org/incubator.html [7]
EDUCATION Team
The current Team of active contributors ( alphabetical order )
Eric Bachard Raphael Bircher Rémi Boulle Frédéric Diaz Michael Huai Nicolas Jeudy Peter Junge Luis Suarez Potts (add your name here)