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

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[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> :)

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[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

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[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

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[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

[18:51] <Twarz> The next step is to make Sugar recognize it as being an activity. It won't be easy because Sugar wa originally intended to work mostly with python application, and therefore have a lot of means to make an easy sugarization

[18:51] <Twarz> with python applications*

[18:52] <Twarz> It is still possible with a C/C++ program according to the Sugar labs members, so we will keep working on this way in the upcoming week.

[18:52] <Twarz> And that's mostly it...

[18:52] <ericb2> Twarz: thanks a lot for the information

[18:53] <ericb2> Twarz: and for your work kidd and you :)

[18:53] <Twarz> ericb2, you're welcome

[18:53] <ericb2> Scoop : kidd received the XO 1.5, but maybe he's too busy playing with it ;)

[18:54] <Twarz> ericb2, he told me he had some trouble running it but that after a few tries it worked well

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[18:55] <ericb2> Twarz: that's great. Please don't forget to drop a mail to Adam Holt, saying him thank you

[18:55] <kidd> ericb2, Twarz it's fun to notice some differences between the XO-1 and XO-1.5 :D

[18:55] <Twarz> ericb2, sure, we'll also post about it o the blog