On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 03:38 -0800, Curtis Clauson wrote: > Linux is of no use in their vocational studies since Linux > is mostly used on the server side and not in office environments.
I would add 'at this time'. Try out the www.ubuntulinux.com live CD, boots into a running system without affecting your current computer setup, there is nothing missing and it is desktop ready and most of all quick. I have a problem with education being operating system centric, they must learn how to move and use differing systems, but I digress. > These students thought that some work on the OOo project would do nicely for > a > school exhibit at the County Fair science hall on the benefits of Open > Source to the general community. It is possible that they could work on this however it is more realistic that they would want to add functionality with support programs than building OOo. OOo is a huge beast not for the faint hearted. If you try high school students on a project of this size they may be scarred for life. You can use python scripting to add a much needed feature without modifying the source of OOo directly. This is within reach of a clever High School student. I suggest talking looking into http://udk.openoffice.org or http://api.openoffice.org > It's too bad their simple and polite question has been treated is such a > "bogus" manner. I've given them a list of current Open Source > multi-platform projects that do not use commercial software their school > can not afford, and they've decided that OOo will not be the project to > benefit from their efforts. Oh well, I tried. I apologise if someone offended you. Sometimes our words are too direct and it was not intended like it read. There is a FOSS developer working on mingw, sometimes people forget projects that they don't necessarily have direct input to. We all work towards a common goal of the best office system in the world however. > However, thanks to those who let me know about the current mingw > efforts. Even if the kids have chosen other projects, I'll still be > tinkering with this one. I am glad you have joined the project. We can use every bit of help. Take some time out to understand the build process and read all the doco. If it is confusing PLEASE post here and I will do my best to fix it. We need to constantly upgrade the doco so that it works for everyone that comes along. http://tools.openoffice.org > It's a nice challenge. You definitely have that :-) -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
