Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal). The idea we defend since several years, is to work with High Schools and Universities, train students, detect potential good ideas, write code (contribute back to

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Ian Lynch
Note, I've signed up as a mentor on the proposal. We need to convince Ian Lynch to get involved too (if he's not already), but I'll work on him later ;-) So far, Ian never helped us, but who knows :-) You might remember we did talk a few months back. My problem is simply that getting the

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Note, I've signed up as a mentor on the proposal. We need to convince Ian Lynch to get involved too (if he's not already), but I'll work on him later ;-) So far, Ian never helped us, but who knows :-) You might

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 7 Jun 2011, at 08:58, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal). The idea we defend since several years, is

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi Ross, Apologies, I just retrieved the mail one minute ago, sorting the n 750 mails I received from this list. Le 2 juin 11 à 12:13, Ross Gardler a écrit : On 02/06/2011 10:30, eric b wrote: Hi, For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread Ross Gardler
On 06/06/2011 14:30, eric b wrote: Hi Ross, Apologies, I just retrieved the mail one minute ago, sorting the n 750 mails I received from this list. Le 2 juin 11 à 12:13, Ross Gardler a écrit : On 02/06/2011 10:30, eric b wrote: Hi, For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi Ross, Le 6 juin 11 à 23:52, Ross Gardler a écrit : Thank you very much, I appreciate a lot :-) Mentoring is essential in the Education Project, because our main goal, after create a strong bridge with Educational world, was to attract new developers. I'm a bit lost with the Apache

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread Ross Gardler
Eric, Thanks for the background. It would be great if you can repost this to the dev@community.a.o list if the podling is accepted. It's off topic for this list, but very much on topic over there. Note, I've signed up as a mentor on the proposal. We need to convince Ian Lynch to get

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 7 juin 11 à 01:44, Ross Gardler a écrit : Eric, Thanks for the background. You're welcome :) It would be great if you can repost this to the dev@community.a.o list if the podling is accepted. Sure I'll do. But like you wrote : only if the podling is accepted. It's off

Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal). The idea we defend since several years, is to work with High Schools and Universities, train students, detect potential good ideas, write code (contribute back

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 10:30, eric b wrote: Hi, For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal). The idea we defend since several years, is to work with High Schools and Universities, train students, detect potential good ideas,