Previous Education Meetings logs/October 2009/15th October

[18:07] <ericb2> Ok, let's starts [18:07] <ericb2> Agenda for 15th of October 2009 meeting [18:07] <ericb2> 1. Welcome new students/ devs [18:07] <ericb2> 2. Present tools we use

[18:07] <ericb2> 3. present the state of work in progress for every project

[18:07] <ericb2> 4. misc

[18:07] <ericb2> 1 Welcome to the new students

[18:08] <ericb2> new students or new devs around ?

[18:08] * metrokid is here !

[18:08] <ericb2> metrokid: hey :)

[18:08] <metrokid> ericb2: ;-)

[18:08] <ericb2> metrokid: I remember you missed the previous meeting. Is Nelle around ?

[18:09] <metrokid> ericb2: I don't know, but I don't think so

[18:09] <ericb2> metrokid: we use to present ourselves, shortly

[18:09] <metrokid> ericb2: Ok!

[18:10] <metrokid> Hi ! My name is Jonathan Winandy, I am a student from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, and I am currently working with a group of student to stabilize an annotation feature in presenter.

[18:11] <ericb2> metrokid: welcome to you and your group :)

[18:11] <ericb2> metrokid: how long will be the task ?

[18:12] <ericb2> metrokid: said differently, how many weeks will you work on that ?

[18:13] <metrokid> ericb2: it's a 10 weeks long task

[18:13] * FabienD (n=fabien@mla78-1-82-240-16-110.fbx.proxad.net) has joined #education.openoffice.org

[18:14] <ericb2> metrokid: you are in the 2nd week, right ?

[18:14] <metrokid> ericb2: I don't know exactly when it should stop. Something like end of november, early december.

[18:14] <ericb2> metrokid: ok, noticed

[18:15] <metrokid> ericb2: I am not the one who is managing the schedule, sorry  ;-)

[18:16] <ericb2> metrokid: are other people of the group unable to join ? I'd like to meet them all, or at least have some contact with them

[18:16] * metrokid :-/ looking for a way to reach them all

[18:18] <ericb2> metrokid: ok.

[18:18] <ericb2> other new devs or students joining ?

[18:19] <ericb2> Next point : present the tools we use

[18:19] <ericb2> ?

[18:21] <ericb2> Ok, let's start

[18:22] <ericb2> in the tasks / projects we propose to the students

[18:22] <ericb2> there are several tools

[18:22] <ericb2> we'll try to present them, one after the other, soon

[18:24] <ericb2> the list is not that long : first diff and patch, gdb, dmake, and the last one : mercurial, aka hg

[18:24] <IZBot> News from mws: OOO320_m2 ready for use.

[18:25] <ericb2> for hg presentation, we are lucky : Heiner Rechtien, who did the migration svn toward hg, will present us a ClassRoom

[18:25] <metrokid> ericb2: today ?

[18:25] <ericb2> the date is not fixed, but this will very probably be a tuesday

[18:25] Matt1_ metrokid mmu_man

[18:26] <ericb2> metrokid: no :)

[18:26] <ericb2> for the other tools, we presented them already, but we'll redo

[18:26] <ericb2> as a ClassRoom too

[18:26] <ericb2> for the one discovering the concept, a ClassRoom is sort of course, around 20 to 30 minutes

[18:27] <ericb2> and questions, and practice (if time allows) at the end

[18:27] * metrokid will look for a classroom about gdb.

[18:28] * [BLUG]_Julien is now known as Julien_BLUG

[18:28] <Julien_BLUG> Are we still at the presentation phase?

[18:29] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: no, but you can present you if you want :)

[18:29] <Julien_BLUG> quickly then

[18:30] <Julien_BLUG> Name is Julien, live in Beijing working for Dexxon China and I am managing OSS based educational solutions deployment in schools here. Regarding OOo, I am mostly interested in: 1. l10n in Chinese 2. MIPS port 3. GUI simplifications

[18:31] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: be welcome too :)

[18:31] <Julien_BLUG> I do not code (or just some very small modifications) and OOo is way to complex for me but I can test, build and provide feedback

[18:31] <Julien_BLUG> ericb2, thank you

[18:32] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: are you porting distributions to gdium too ? And wich one ?

[18:34] <Julien_BLUG> ericb2, myself not, I have been hacking a bit around Debian and customizing Mandriva for the Chinese market but that does not really count as ports

[18:34] <Julien_BLUG> more hacking around existing distros

[18:35] <Julien_BLUG> To be more precise, the Longson CPU is not officially supported by the Debian MIPS port but most packages are working okay

[18:36] <Julien_BLUG> So you can have Debian running using the Kernel and the drivers developed by Mandriva

[18:36] <Julien_BLUG> Apart from that we have Cocreate running and a very early port of Open Suse

[18:37] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: that's nice

[18:37] jPau|Bot Julien_BLUG

[18:37] <Julien_BLUG> (Cocreate is a Debian based Chinese distro)

[18:37] <Julien_BLUG> Oh and a British guy has Gentoo running too

[18:38] <Julien_BLUG> Sorry am a bit off topic here

[18:38] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: no, that's intersting, and shows to everybody the diversity of the poeple joining the Education Project

[18:39] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: thanks a lot for that :)

[18:39] <ericb2> other new students/devs around ?

[18:39] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: and don't forget to say hello to the BLUG too

[18:40] <ericb2> from our part

[18:40] <Julien_BLUG> For the new people here, I want to highlight one huge benefit of OOo4Kids that is the simplification of the toolbars that make OOo4Kids much easier to use on a 10" 1024x600 netbook screen

[18:41] <Julien_BLUG> ericb2, sure, we will have a OOo talk at the BLUG on december following the OOoConf

[18:42] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: thanks. FYI, this is work in progress, and I'm (Twarz and kidd too) improving that more and more every day

[18:42] <Julien_BLUG> ericb2, yeah that's what I figured lurking around here, very encouraging :-)

[18:43] <ericb2> :)

[18:44] * kidd has quit (Read error: 60 (Operation timed out))

[18:44] <ericb2> Next point ?

[18:44] <ericb2> before to start with point 3, I'd like to add: I'll prepare something about the tools we'll use, and inform the mailing list

[18:45] * kidd (n=kidd@89-156-144-125.rev.numericable.fr) has joined #education.openoffice.org

[18:45] <ericb2> IMPORTANT: please subscribe to the dev@education.openoffice.org mailing list, because this will be the vector of infiormation, e.g. informing everybody there is something happening, and where

[18:46] <ericb2> to subscribe, send a mail : dev-subscribe@education.openoffice.org

[18:46] <ericb2> then confirm, and that's all

[18:46] <ericb2> thanks

[18:47] <ericb2> So, next point is 3. present the state of work in progress for every project

[18:47] <ericb2> Twarz: ? metrokid ? Kamots ? a little point ?

[18:47] <Twarz> Sure

[18:47] <metrokid> Yep !

[18:48] * Kamots nods

[18:48] <Twarz> I'll quickly remind everybody about Kidd's and myself project: sugarizing OOo4Kids, meaning making it run on a XO with the sugar- specific application such as the journal

[18:49] * NelleV (n=nelle@crb44-1-82-67-125-197.fbx.proxad.net) has joined #education.openoffice.org

[18:49] <ericb2> NelleV: hello :)

[18:49] <NelleV> ericb2, hi

[18:49] <Twarz> We just succeeded in building OOo4Kids on Sugar (it was not easy), it is running fine on the XO except it's obviously slower than on a regular computer

[18:49] <NelleV> sorry 'im late

[18:50] * Julien_BLUG now remembers that some people have been working on porting Sugar on the Gdium