[Glug-nith-discuss] Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introducing the Education Project from OpenOffice.org

[Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray]

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From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <address@hidden>
Date: 17 Dec 2007 12:32
Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introducing the Education Project from
OpenOffice.org
To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <address@hidden>


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INTRODUCTION

The Education Project from OpenOffice.org aims to be the single window
for students, teachers, academics and persons interested in education to
join, participate and contribute to the OpenOffice.org project.

The Education Project intends to also help create course content aimed
at potential contributors that can be adopted and adapted to varying
needs. The Project thus provides:

- - a development category so as to have a central view for students into
  the development of OpenOffice.org
- - a tools category listing several tools available through
  OpenOffice.org
- - a set of stories about inclusion and usage of OpenOffice.org in
  schools and universities
- - links to enable developers to begin contributing to OpenOffice.org

MISSION

- - Provide a place for OpenOffice.org users in the context of education
  to discuss about adapting OpenOffice.org to the pedagogy
- - Provide and promote tools around OpenOffice.org adapted to the
  pedagogical use
- - Incubate contribution to OpenOffice.org by writing code,
  documentation, creating artwork, triaging bugs, doing QA "together"

WHY JOIN ?

By participating in the Education Project, you can learn about:

- - how the source code for OpenOffice.org is organized so as to develop
  effectively
- - which tools are used in OpenOffice.org
- - how to build OpenOffice.org for the various supported Operating
  Systems
- - how a new feature is accepted, scheduled and implemented
- - how the QA is managed and undertaken
- - how components and modules function
- - how can one put in a Request for Feature Enhancement
- - how can an extension be created
- - how to become a Domain Developer for OpenOffice.org


CONTACT US

address@hidden is a mailing list for general
communication pertaining to this project
address@hidden is a mailing list for development and
localization of tools



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You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
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