Scale O Oo4 Kids

OOo4KidsBringing OpenOffice.org to the children of the planet

Education ProjectProject Co-Lead

5 minFeb 18th 2010

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Speaker

Alexandro Colorado

OpenOffice.org project lead

Contributor since end 2001

Domain developer since 2004

Co Lead Spanish

Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Education Project

Business Developments, Certification

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OOo4Kids

InnovationClosing the gap between users and developersMaking floss development an academic subject

OptimizationMake OOo4Kids leaner and cleaner

ImplementationMake it more manageable

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OOo4Kids

VisionShift the education paradigm from a vendor centric

to a skill centric education

EducationMake FLOSS more acceptable on education

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In OOo4Kids:More is Less

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What does Ooo4Kids has?

A light and fast OpenOffice.org version :

without Java

Dedicated to the 7-12 years

working everywhere (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

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Yes even HERE

Teachers in Peru, Bolivia and Guatemala have been testing this build... Sugar team in France also has helped

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Award winning product

OOo4Kids already won an award on the Etoiles du Libre (Stars of Freedom)

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Why?

Born from teachers requests :

Schools often own old machine

Schools often own powerless machines

Children do not need all the features OpenOffice.org does provide

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...And

Allows to propose lot of applications to the students !

Forces to work in collaboration with teachers for every feature

We can innovate

We can develop performance improvements,

Backport the best improvements inside OpenOffice.org

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Gradual knowledge

Provide a gradual knowledge to students

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Roadmap

Add password protection to configuration

Implement new Wizards to ease document generation

Have dyslexic friendly fonts by default

Implement a “TuXType” game extension integrated to this build

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Technical Advantages

OOo4Kids builds in a faster time than OpenOffice.org

Lower minimum requirements:500Mhz Celeron128MB RAM245MB storage (35% less)

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How to contribute?

Wiki : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org

Mailing lists (french) : http://listes.educoo.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Eric Bachard blog: http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/

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Current state of OOo4Kids

Using OpenOffice.org development source code (future 3.2)

The demand of creation of a new official and dedicated branch will be made soon

→ to be continued

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Contact Us (development)

IRC : server irc.freenode.net

Channel : #education.openoffice.org #OOo4Kids

Mailing lists: dev@education.openoffice.org

Project : http://education.openoffice.org

Sources: https://adullact.net/projects/ooo4kids1/

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Let's work together

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