Previous Education Meetings logs/October 2009/15th October
[18:07] <ericb2> Ok, let's starts [18:07] <ericb2> Agenda for 15th of October 2009 meeting [18:07] <ericb2> 1. Welcome new students/ devs [18:07] <ericb2> 2. Present tools we use
[18:07] <ericb2> 3. present the state of work in progress for every project
[18:07] <ericb2> 4. misc
[18:07] <ericb2> 1 Welcome to the new students
[18:08] <ericb2> new students or new devs around ?
[18:08] * metrokid is here !
[18:08] <ericb2> metrokid: hey :)
[18:08] <metrokid> ericb2: ;-)
[18:08] <ericb2> metrokid: I remember you missed the previous meeting. Is Nelle around ?
[18:09] <metrokid> ericb2: I don't know, but I don't think so
[18:09] <ericb2> metrokid: we use to present ourselves, shortly
[18:09] <metrokid> ericb2: Ok!
[18:10] <metrokid> Hi ! My name is Jonathan Winandy, I am a student from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, and I am currently working with a group of student to stabilize an annotation feature in presenter.
[18:11] <ericb2> metrokid: welcome to you and your group :)
[18:11] <ericb2> metrokid: how long will be the task ?
[18:12] <ericb2> metrokid: said differently, how many weeks will you work on that ?
[18:13] <metrokid> ericb2: it's a 10 weeks long task
[18:13] * FabienD (n=fabien@mla78-1-82-240-16-110.fbx.proxad.net) has joined #education.openoffice.org
[18:14] <ericb2> metrokid: you are in the 2nd week, right ?
[18:14] <metrokid> ericb2: I don't know exactly when it should stop. Something like end of november, early december.
[18:14] <ericb2> metrokid: ok, noticed
[18:15] <metrokid> ericb2: I am not the one who is managing the schedule, sorry ;-)
[18:16] <ericb2> metrokid: are other people of the group unable to join ? I'd like to meet them all, or at least have some contact with them
[18:16] * metrokid :-/ looking for a way to reach them all
[18:18] <ericb2> metrokid: ok.
[18:18] <ericb2> other new devs or students joining ?
[18:19] <ericb2> Next point : present the tools we use
[18:19] <ericb2> ?
[18:21] <ericb2> Ok, let's start
[18:22] <ericb2> in the tasks / projects we propose to the students
[18:22] <ericb2> there are several tools
[18:22] <ericb2> we'll try to present them, one after the other, soon
[18:24] <ericb2> the list is not that long : first diff and patch, gdb, dmake, and the last one : mercurial, aka hg
[18:24] <IZBot> News from mws: OOO320_m2 ready for use.
[18:25] <ericb2> for hg presentation, we are lucky : Heiner Rechtien, who did the migration svn toward hg, will present us a ClassRoom
[18:25] <metrokid> ericb2: today ?
[18:25] <ericb2> the date is not fixed, but this will very probably be a tuesday
[18:25] Matt1_ metrokid mmu_man
[18:26] <ericb2> metrokid: no :)
[18:26] <ericb2> for the other tools, we presented them already, but we'll redo
[18:26] <ericb2> as a ClassRoom too
[18:26] <ericb2> for the one discovering the concept, a ClassRoom is sort of course, around 20 to 30 minutes
[18:27] <ericb2> and questions, and practice (if time allows) at the end
[18:27] * metrokid will look for a classroom about gdb.
[18:28] * [BLUG]_Julien is now known as Julien_BLUG
[18:28] <Julien_BLUG> Are we still at the presentation phase?
[18:29] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: no, but you can present you if you want :)
[18:29] <Julien_BLUG> quickly then
[18:30] <Julien_BLUG> Name is Julien, live in Beijing working for Dexxon China and I am managing OSS based educational solutions deployment in schools here. Regarding OOo, I am mostly interested in: 1. l10n in Chinese 2. MIPS port 3. GUI simplifications
[18:31] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: be welcome too :)
[18:31] <Julien_BLUG> I do not code (or just some very small modifications) and OOo is way to complex for me but I can test, build and provide feedback
[18:31] <Julien_BLUG> ericb2, thank you
[18:32] <ericb2> Julien_BLUG: are you porting distributions to gdium too ? And wich one ?