Previous Education Meetings logs/October 2009/8th October

[18:04] <ericb2> froumi: yes, meeting :)

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[18:04] <ericb2> Ok, let's start

[18:04] <ericb2> First, hello to all for coming

[18:04] * froumi is here with a sandich jambon butter :)

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[18:05] <ericb2> For the one who join for the first time, we use to present the agenda, and then every point

[18:05] <ericb2> at the end , there is a misc part, reserved for questions not scheduled on the agenda

[18:05] <ericb2> Agenda for 8th of October 2009 meeting

[18:05] <ericb2> 1. Welcome people and devs joining Education project

[18:05] <ericb2> 2. Present the Education Project guidelines for students (how we work, what is expected), and the schools who participate

[18:05] <ericb2> 3. OOo4Kids sugarization ( Thomas Fontenay - Abdelkader Bellabes )

[18:05] <ericb2> 4. Education Project Effort ( status )

[18:05] <ericb2> 5. Misc

[18:05] <ericb2> Point 1:

[18:05] <ericb2> Welcome to people joining the Education Project.

[18:06] <ericb2> We use to ask the newcomers to present themselves, and explain what they expect

[18:06] <ericb2> so please shoot !

[18:07] <ericb2> if I'm not wrong, newcomers are Twarz Kidd Jayanga Ravipriya .. kau_mad : please present yourselves :)

[18:07] <ericb2> + all the one I forgot are welcome to do so :-)

[18:07] <Kidd> may I begin?

[18:07] <ericb2> Kidd: please :)

[18:08] <ericb2> just a little precision :

[18:08] * cbosdonnat just arrived

[18:08] <ericb2> the log of the meeting will be publically available

[18:08] Kamots kau_mad Kidd

[18:08] <ericb2> Kidd: please :)

[18:08] <Kidd> ericb2, okay :)

[18:10] <Kidd> so, I'm Kidd and I'm currently working with Twarz ericb2 and pierrep for the most part on improving performances an the UI of OOo4Kids. Twarz and me are also working on the "Sugarisation" of OOo4Kids for the XO laptop given by OLPC [ 18:11] * Matt1 (n=Matt_UTB@ip-119.net-89-2-197.rev.numericable.fr) has joined #education.openoffice.org

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[18:12] <Kidd> and*

[18:13] <Twarz> Kidd presented us both, I'll just add that we are currently in a training period after our first year of computer science studyong in Epitech, Paris

[18:13] <Twarz> studying*

[18:13] <Kamots> are you involved in this for a class or just as a side project?

[18:14] <Twarz> The training period is part of our cursus - we chose to do it with the Education project because it seemed much more interesting than any other job we could have gotten as first year students. It seems we were not mistaken until now :)

[18:15] <atjensen> Hello, Just here to observe and learn a little

[18:15] <Twarz> We learn much about C, C++, OpenOffice and how the open world works

[18:16] <Kamots> working in open source is always more interesting =^) Welcome everyone

[18:16] <ericb2> Twarz: Kidd : thanks a lot for your presentation and congratulations for your last blog entries : http://ooo4kids- xo.blogspot.com/

[18:17] <Twarz> It's us who are grateful, truly

[18:17] <ericb2> atjensen: are you student ?

[18:17] <Kidd> same as Twarz

[18:17] <kau_mad> @ericb2: may I present now?

[18:17] <ericb2> kau_mad: please, do :-)

[18:18] <kau_mad> @ericb2: I'm working on Math baseline alignment

[18:18] <ericb2> kau_mad: yes, the famous issue 972

[18:19] <IZBot> Formula editor ENHANCEMENT STARTED P3 Alignment of baselines of formula and text in writer http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=972

[18:19] <Matt1> hello everybody, I'm Matthieu Paret. I'm studying in UTBM (University of technologie of Belfort and Montbéliard). This semester, I'm helping this project to work on wiki(s) and feedback next.

[18:19] <ericb2> kau_mad: Was Rakesh Pandit sho started the work. Since he get hired, and that's a *great* thing to see you continue. Really

[18:20] Kamots kau_mad

[18:20] madawasj masc Matt1

[18:20] <kau_mad> @ericb2: I have to go through what Rakesh did

[18:20] <ericb2> kau_mad: you can ask me, I worked at it at the begining, to start the project

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[18:21] Kamots kau_mad

[18:21] <ericb2> kau_mad: from where are you ?

[18:21] <kau_mad> @ericb2: from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

[18:22] <kau_mad> @ericb2: I'm a third year student following Computer Science and Engineering

[18:22] <ericb2> kau_mad: that's awesome to see people from Sri Lanka online, and workig with us !

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[18:22] <cbosdonnat> Jayanga, you're turn ? as you're from Sri Lanka too ?

[18:22] <cbosdonnat> s/you're/your

[18:22] <Jayanga> yes

[18:22] <kau_mad> @ericb2: doing this project for our semester long programming project

[18:24] <Ravipriya1> ericb2: me,kau.mad, sachindra , jayanga ,madawasj,viraj are all doing this programming project

[18:24] <ericb2> Ravipriyaa1 ok, that's a real pleasure to see all of you thre