Those of you who are interested in hacking OpenOffice - this is something you should not miss.

----- Forwarded message from eric.bachard@free.fr ----- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:26:07 +0200 From: eric b eric.bachard@free.fr Reply-To: dev@education.openoffice.org Subject: [dev-educ] [ClassRooms] First classroom on 7th of May To: dev@education.openoffice.org

Hi,

After some regular discussions with Vincent Vikram and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay on IRC,I think we can start the ClassRoom program we scheduled some times ago.

Objective: help beginners willing to contribute, to discover the development side of OpenOffice.org project, and try to solve, or at least provide some light to : " What, Where, Who, How , Whom ask ..." questions any newcomer asks.

The logs will be put on the wiki, thus all the community will be able to access the knowledge, and I expect to see the developers I contacted to confirm they will contribute.

Because this is the first one, we'll start with the beginning, and I'll (exceptionaly) start myself the ClassRoom.

Proposed Date: Wednesday 7th of May 2008, Hour : 11:00 ( Paris hour ) ~ 14:30 India hour ( i.e; Vincent hour ;-) ) Mode: as IRC meeting. Server : irc.freenode.net Channel : #education.openoffice.org

Content :

Part 1:

1) Discover the OpenOffice.org project

Other points, suggested by Vincent Vikram :

2) where is the code 3) I got the code ... now where do I start in the code ? 4) What do I need to know in advance 5) How good is the documentation documentation

Part 2: Questions from the attendees

Part 3:

Round table with students, and developers, + define the agenda for the next ClassRooms, including other questions to be prepared in advance

Suggestions ? Opinions ?

Last but not least, please note carefully:

- we have choosen the IRC way, because unfortunaly, not everybody has a nice Internet connexion, with good bandwidth, and so on. - if you have a proposal for a better way of communication, please propose, and organize it !! - Everything about the content (the log), and _after_ the presentation (comments, additional links ..etc) will be on the wiki - ALL contributions are WELCOME : means such thing will work if and only if _several_ people join the effort and contribute, because we have to do everything from scratch.

Action Item: can someone take over to announce the thing on the Education Project Blog ?

Best regards, Eric Bachard