Hello All,
I am Alan Bell, I run Dominux Consulting http://www.dominux.co.uk and I am now starting up a new company to offer ECDL training for OpenOffice.Org in the UK. Currently we are at business plan stage, but we are starting to write training materials.
The ECDL for those who don't know about it is the rather oddly named "European Computer Driving License" http://www.ecdl.com it is an educational qualification which basically covers general end user use of a computer including operating system web email and office suite. The qualification is available outside of Europe too, it then just gets called the International Computer Driving Licence, but other than that it is identical.
I was starting from scratch based just on the syllabus, but as I intended to release the documentation under an open license it seems silly to duplicate work with the existing documentation. I am now looking to use the existing documentation as a base, and map it to the structure of the ECDL syllabus filling in any gaps (there will be some because of the way the ECDL syllabus is written). I have been speaking to the BCS (British Computer Society) who administer the ECDL in the UK and also the ECDL foundation in Dublin. They have written ECDL exam material for OpenOffice, but it seems nobody has yet used it. The guys I spoke to seem quite keen to support companies in providing ECDL training and certification for OpenOffice.org.
I am happy to get stuck in and put a lot of effort into this,
I have a couple of questions for now:
1)Which CVS module contains the documentation? I just got the helpcontent2 module but that is only the online context sensitive stuff I think. I am looking for the sxw or odt files for the manual and basically the stuff on this page http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html
2)The ECDL includes some modules that don't really relate to OpenOffice.Org, specifically
Module 1 â Concepts of Information Technology
this includes history of computers and what they are used for.
Module 2 â Using the Computer and Managing Files
Operating system level tasks like organising files in a directory structure
Module 7 â Information and Communication
this one is basically email and web, I plan to cover Thunderbird and Firefox
but there are 4 core modules which Writer, Calc, Base and Impress do cover, these are:
Module 3 â Word Processing
Module 4 â Spreadsheets
Module 5 â Database
Module 6 â Presentation
Would it be OK to keep the modules not related to OpenOffice.Org managed together with the others? i.e. in the same CVS system and hosted by OpenOffice.Org?
any feedback appreciated,
Alan.
