Hello, As you probably know, the OpenOffice.org Education Project is working on a light version of OpenOffice.org (under LGPL V3). The idea is to work with students, on new features, performance issues, and so on, and propose for the backport in OOo only for the best code/ideas. The OpenOffice.org source code is so rich, that a big amount of subjects can become a support for pedagogical purpose, and more !
Feel free to test it, and why not join the effort? Below, the official announce, including the link for the download Best regards, Eric Bachard """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Hello, OOo4Kids, (pronounce "OpenOffice for Kids") is a software (work in progress) designed for 7-12 children, based on OpenOffice.org source code, but simplified. This means OpenOffice.org has some features OOo4Kids has not. And if you need those features, please use OpenOffice.org, that you can download at : http://download.openoffice.org/index.html For the one who would like to test OOo4Kids, for instance a development version, 0.5, already very stable but not complete, it is now possible to download it at the URL : => http://download.openoffice.org/index.html This site is gracefully provided by TuxServices ( http://www.tuxservices.com ), and maintained by Nicolas Jeudy and Ben Bois. If you appreciate our work, please think to help us (donations and/or participation) via the non profit assiciation, 1901 law, EducOOo ( http://www.educoo.org ), who supports OOo4Kids. Before to use OOo4Kids, you must make a backup of your documents, and you must NOT use OOo4Kids in production. We currently only provide the following locales : french, spanish, english-US, portugese and german For the Operating Systems / processors : - OOo4Kids for Windows (XP mini) : the installer is included. Follow the instructions and launch OOo4Kids. Known issues: OOo4Kids works perfectly in parallel with OpenOffice.org. But the last installed between them, will beneficiate of the file association. Thus, if you want to open office documents with OpenOffice.org, doube clicking on them, think to reinstall OpenOffice.org *after* you have installed OOo4Kids - Mac OS X (Intel and PowerPC) : Installs and works perfectly in parallel with OpenOffice.org. A double clic on the downloaded archive, will automatically mount the disk image. To install the software, drop the OOo4Kids icon in the Applications folder (strongly suggested).Then Dock the icon, and click to launch OOo4Kids. The preferences will be located in the ~/Library/Application Support/OOo4Kids folder. If you encounter problem, or simply if you want to remove OOo4Kids (after you trashed the Bundle too, of course), just trash the prefs folder. - Linux Intel : until we'll be able to provide correct .debs and/or .rpm, the Linux version will be provided as preinstalled .tar.gz : uncompress the archive, and put the content in your personnal folder. Then search the soffice script, and ouble click on it will launch OOo4Kids. Once you verified it works correctly, create a launcher. For the other versions (Linux PowerPC and Mips 32bits), they will be online very soon, and you can contact us if you want to test an older version. IMPORTANT : thanks to report us any problem on the [email protected] mailing list (subscription : http://listes.educoo.org/mailman/listinfo/dev ). Last but not least, please remember you are using OOo4Kids at your own risks, and read carefully the instructions on the download page. Best regards, Eric Bachard -- Education Project: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org Blog : http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
