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Subject:    [kde-edu-devel] Fwd: Re: KDE edu involvement
From:       Anne-Marie Mahfouf <a-m.mahfouf () lineone ! net>
Date:       2002-06-25 17:29:35
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Hi all,

Probably my last message before my move (I am surrounded by boxes...) I 
answered Marc following his mail proposing help and he replied.
Eva: could you please arrange for a cvs acces? I'll ask him to send you the 
details.
Scott: the flashkard doc is missing, he proposes to do it, do you agree? If 
yes, could someone please send him a docbook template?
Thanks a lot and sorry to have to go away from KDE-Edu for some time... 
Cheers 

annma

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Subject: Re: KDE edu involvement
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:55:43 +0100
From: Marc Wolf <marc@vries.demon.co.uk>
To: Anne-Marie Mahfouf <a-m.mahfouf@lineone.net>

Anne-Marie,

Thanks for sending the information. The reason why I'm interrested in the
KDE-Edu project is to combine two of my main interrest areas, i.e. Astronomy
and Linux/KDE. This is the main reason why I would like to work on a project
like Kstars. The other reason is kids. I would like to see many easy useable
applications for children on a Linux box. My oldest daughter needs to learn
her spelling and you Klearnspelling is a very easy nice idea. Also the Ktimes
I do like, though could not yet compile it properly. This brings me already
to some suggestions:

- make children's application modular, so all these small apps can be
integrated into a overall application
- make the ktimes more general, so it is easy to perform other operations
 like add, substract, divide.
- New game: memory for KDE (my other daughter likes to play it)
- Picture puzzles

- Time creator, nice ideas, but time....


I do have some limited coding experience (c, java, c++), so I'm eager to
improve this skill. I think I'll start working on debugging/proposing some
improvements on applications. If there is a particlar apps to be looked at
let me know. Alfa, Beta testing of applications would be "joyfull".

I'm familiar with CVS so I would like to apply for an CVS account. I'm not
sure about the commit approval process. I assume that only the lead
developers can commit changes to the code.

I can start writting some docs for Flashkard, though I think I do understand
the purpose of this application, it might be good idea to have some more
background info on this application. If you can send me a empty template, I
can start working on this doc if you can provide some background info, or
contacts.

Did download the mentioned modules and was able to compile most of the
applications. I can also work on checking/creating distributions (SuSE rpm)
if that is needed or do some web maintenance/CVS maintenance.

Hopefully this will work out. Due to personal circumstances I do have
sufficient spare time till end of July. (Back to regular work again)

Kind regards,

Marc

On Saturday 22 June 2002 17:41, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thank you for your interest in the KDE-Edu project.
> I don't know if you are familiar to KDE development so please forgive me if
> you know the following.
> You will need to get on your machine KDE from CVS HEAD which is the current
> development version.
> If you already are familiar to KDE and CVS and if you are ready to help
> immediately then it's better to ask for a cvs account now. You will then be
> able to commit your changes.
>
> If this is not the case and you want to try things first to see what to do:
> You can access cvs as anonymous via:
> export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde
>
> You can have a look at:
> http://edu.kde.org/developer/cvs.phtml
>
> When you have compiled and installed at least arts, kde-support, kdelibs
> from cvs HEAD, you can compile the kdeedu module and test the applications.
>
> DOC
> Urgent: Doc will need to be done for KNorskVerbs and FlashKard.
> Again, I don't know what is your knowledge. Doc is written in xml-docbook.
> Basically, you edit a template file named index.docbook with a text editor
> and you fill in the template by leaving the tags and writing inside the
> tags. HTML is a subset of docbook so it's the same process, except that all
> tags need to be closed in docbook.
> I can tell you more on that if you want and I can send you a template.
> Formatting errors are not important, the content is more important.
>
> SOFTWARE
> You can compile and run each application and try to detect bugs and bad
> GUI. User interfaces are our big problem. We don't know how to present some
> programs like KLatin which I think will not be part of the 3.1 release. Nor
> will KMathTool as it is not very avanced.
> So forget those 2 applications at the moment.
>
> KTimes and KLearnSpelling are 2 of my softwares and must be rewritten. I
> did not work on them yet...
> I will be able to work on them in August so you can already try to note
> some ideas.
>
> I don't know whether you want to code or not and what is your
> ability/level. Even if you are a total beginner, you can still begin.
> Please tell me more so I can have a better idea of what you would like.
>
> In the mean time, you could subscribe to our mailing-lists:
> kde-edu
> http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu
> kde-edu-devel (development)
> http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu-devel
>
> You can also have a look at
> http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.1-release-plan.html.htm
>l http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.1-features.html
>
> Our own feature plan is there:
> http://edu.kde.org/developer/features.phtml
>
> I think it's all for now ;) (women are always very chatty)
> Please tell me what is your KDE knowledge and what you would like to start
> to do.
>
> Anne-Marie

--
Marc en Gerja Wolf
mailto: marc@vries.demon.co.uk
http:/vries.demon.co.uk

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