1 Jun 22:17
[education-dev] Open source education initiative
For quite a few months I have been working on talks around the issue of teaching the culture of contribution across FLOSS projects. Since this initiative goal is to prepare students to learn the open source methodologies as well as it tools. These processes should be avialabile since High school and college level students that aim to develop or contribute software.
Teaching the platform includes learning the basics on how to use the following tools such as:
- Mailing lists
- IRC
- Wiki
- Issue tracker
- Source Code Management tool
- Testing
- Documentation practices
- Localization practices
- Codign guidelines
The name of the initiative would be WayOOo as the "way to do things in floss". This will be a beta name if people have other proposals please submit as well.
I hope that volunteers join the project, I will start a wikipage giving the outline of the project currently at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/WayOOo
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Alexandro Colorado
OpenOffice.org Español
http://es.openoffice.org
I'm currently working on integrate a nice and existing C++ extension,
but directly in the code, means at buildtime. To summarize, if I
integrate the lib (written in C++) in the scp2 .. and so on system,
there is no problem at all, the packaging is ok and it works fine in
the install set.
In fact, everything works fine, but the icons are not seen, because
simply not found :-/
To explain more, the first point is, after tracing a bit, that the
"NormalFileName" property is used to retrieve the right bitmap
(please correct me if I'm wrong). As example, looking at the original
name, we have (in the .xcu) :
<node oor:name="Background">
<prop oor:name="NormalFileName">
<value>bitmaps/Background.png</value>
</prop>
And in the extension, it appears that the relative path is used,
means the library is in :
extension/random_name/libThing.${DLL_EXTENSION}
... while the .png are in :
extension/random_name/bitmaps/*.png
This happens to work ok, of course. Am I correct to suppose that the
relative path is used, or did I miss something ?
My tries now : using the other existing .xcu as example and trying to
respect the schema ( .xcs file), I did the what follows:
<node oor:name="Background">
<prop oor:name="NormalFileName">
<value>"$(insturl)/share/config/bitmaps/Background.png"</value>
</prop>
... and so on
It does not work, but the idea is
1) put the library using those icons in $(insturl)/program (like all
the other libs in fact ...)
2) use the path above to retrieve the icons.
I must say I tested absolute and relative paths, without success.
For example :
<value>xlink:href="$(insturl)/share/config/bitmaps/Background.png"</
value>
or :
<value>xlink:href="../share/config/bitmaps/Background.png"</value>
Last, the documentation I have read is :
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