Hi Alexandro,
Le 11 janv. 10 à 20:51, Alexandro Colorado a écrit :
Telling about the education project could be one thing. I remember
your
presentation in Orvieto, Alexandro. It was full of ideas, but not so
specific. It looks like a container of wishes for the next decade
(s) or so
;-) To be really attractive, it might be shorter, more practical?
Well of course, the Education project is considered a "Young/
Incubator" project so most things are still on it's way and planned.
Not exactly : we did a lot, but outside of the OOo website.
Creativity needs freedom, and OpenOffice.org website does not exactly
provide the tools we need.
There is an ONG backing it up with EducOO and there is some real
work happening on some areas of education including OOo4Kids
(http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/) and Efforts. But some are still being
developed like the "CampusLibre" project.
Just FYI :
- we created strong links with the schools we worked with, and around
20 students have been mentored since two years
- OpenOffice.org Education Project today counts ~ 110 members (was
only 7 or 8 when I started ... )
- Campus Libre Project counts ~ 200 members : http://campus-
libre.educoo.org/index.php
- Edulibre (free Forge for collaborative work) is new and
operationnal (we'll launch it soon officially) : http://
educoo.edulibre.org/
- is the XO port *not* something concrete ? FYI, OOo4Kids will be in
the next Sugar version : we created a strong link with another community
- Aren't ClassRooms concrete ? ( everything is on the OpenOffice.org
wiki )
The goal of the presentation was giving exposure to the whole
Education project so it couldn't be very practical.
Exactly : one hour is very limited, and the content is generic, but
dedicated presentations can be done on demand.
I am not sure that showing a fancy graph with the internal
organization and processes would be very enlightning or attractive
to someone that want to join the project. Instead I gave an overal
roundup on areas where they wanted to participate and if they
thought it was a good idea or not. Most of the wishlist did include
starting a project in their locality because WE NEED FUNDING. So
yes, wishful thinking means ... once we get resources we can do X
or Y.
Yet another concrete fact : EducOOo ( http://educoo.org ) proposed to
reverse 10 to 15% of the donations to help OpenOffice.org (students
or Education related, but othr cases can be).
Regards,
Eric Bachard
Lead,
OpenOffice.org Education Project
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