Education Project/OOo4Kids

Description

Right now, we are researching in our countries, to understand exactally what they want and need.

Childrens have different growing for different live conditions.

At Brazil we ar researching on public schools, in poor locations and other.

If you want to help us in this research, please contact-us at educational openoffice.org list, or my personal email: linuxdoc@gmail.com

Soon the coding will start.

If you want to help, join us in #educational.openoffice.org on freenode.net.

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The idea of OpenOffice4Kids is turn the openoffice interface into something more easier for childrens, specially those between 7 and 12 years.

Some changes are necessaries, and some others (if don't exists) may help other focus than childrens:

1) Interface 2) Wizards 3) Parental Control 4) Colaborative work with moderation 5) Simplified/Automatized CVS/SVN support ... 6) ...

1) Interface

Create support for user configurable splash screen. So if the user has the profile of an children, the splash will be different. OpenOffice has support for icons and wizards by profile? The idea is give to the user, support for change every button image, and rezise them. Also change the functionallity of some buttons, like "BOLD" to open an wizard and help the children. One button for citations is a good idea. If the button can search the citation on google, in a transparent way, will be better.

2) Wizards

Every action may need an wizard. Even "Italic" or "Bold" buttons. Childrens need help in any step of the work. Specially on OOWriter.

3) Parental Control

Parents (or bosses) may have the power of block any profile change, save-as folder, open-from folder... Any action that may distribute or fill the document with a external reference, may be controlled. Some words may not be interesting to users (read and write). And some documents may need parent password to open and change. Internet access by openoffice may be blocked or filtered, based on the parent/boss rules. There is many others needs and applications for parental/boss control.

4) Colaborative work with moderation

Any document may be shared online by one group, distributed on many networks, and the owner of the document will work as moderator. For example, the professor create some document, and invite the students, to share online this document. And can pass the control of the document for any student, temporarily. And the document will be automatically created/updated/commited on cvs/svn configured on the profile.

5) Simplified;Automatized CVS/SVN support

Any document will be put on the cvs/svn based on the parent/boss rules. Any change will be saved automatically, without user interation. Parents may consult the svn logs and status of any document using svn/cvs tools or by one wizard, when they open that document. OpenOffice will have on the file lists all the files on the svn/cvs, even if they don't exists locally.

6) ...

There is many changes and ideas that can be used on openoffice for kids. We do not forget about SCORM standart. Support for SCORM on Openoffice will be very helpful for professors.

Goal

The idea is create some patches / extensions to openoffice, based on the need from childrens between 7 and 12 years.

Additional comment :

should be possible to create light version of OpenOffice.org,

• without
  • base
  • calc
  • starmath

• including
  • big icons
  • no registration
  • simplified and adapted menus

Ericb 21:22, 15 October 2008 (CEST)

People involved

Name	OOo Nickname	Role
Eric Bachard	ericb2	Development, Documentation
xxx	xxx	QA
xxxx	xxxx	User Experience
YYY	XXX	Documentation