This sounds like what we do in Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In. I would encourage to review this projects and have students apply for the challenges. I am not sure if you are in University level or High School, but Code-in is for the later one.
There has been some non-coding efforts done for school material (learning modules) using something called calclets (inspired from excelletes). You can learn more about them here: http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/excelets/ And see some of the ones here: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Vladislav Stevanovic < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Maby this is not for this mailing list but... > I had one idea. My faculty has Departman for Mathematics and Informatics. I > want to meet profesor who will teaching this year C++. My proposal is: give > to students some specific projects about OpenOffice. It would be great for > students, for their motivations and selfconfidence if their work will used > by all people on the world who using AOO. Of course, because students do > not have deeper knowledges, it should be working on peripherals things on > AOO. Mentor will controling whole proces of working, and code, to avoid > some problems in AOO. > Is this idea OK? > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
