Story of the OOo4Kids project

1. OOo4Kids Bringing OpenOffice.org to the children of the planet Education Project Project Co-Lead [Presentation time] [Presentation date]

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9. Implementation

10. Vision

11. Education

12. Speaker Eric Bachard Professor of Applied Physics at l'UTBM ( http://www.utbm.fr ) Contributor since end 2003 Domain developer ( core dev. ) since 2005 Ex-Co Lead Porting Project (2006-2007) Lead, OpenOffice.org Education Project

13. In OOo4Kids: More is Less

15. without Java

16. Dedicated to the 7-12 years

17. working everywhere (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

19. Schools often own powerless machines

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

21. The User Interface is too complicated

23. Forces to work in collaboration with teachers for every feature

24. We can innovate

25. We can « profile » (performance improvements, with the idea to « backport » the best improvements inside OpenOffice.org

26. ( lot of other good reasons … )

27. How to contribute? Wiki : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org Mailing lists (french) : http://listes.educoo.org/mailman/listinfo/users (contact us ?)

28. 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

29. Contact Us (development) IRC : server irc.freenode.net Channel : #education.openoffice.org Mailing lists: [email_address] Project : http://education.openoffice.org