Community

Contents

1 Keeping in touch
2 Documenting the Project
3 Participating to the Project
4 Success Story

Keeping in touch

Here are places to learn or to exchange ideas, experiences and suggestions about Dr. Geo.

Read first the DrGeo FAQ for questions.
Dr. Geo forum to ask question.
Dr. Geo on Twitter.
IRC channel #drgeo at the IRC server irc.freenode.net. You can connect now from your web browser.
Report bugs at http://bugs.drgeo.eu.

Documenting the Project

We have up to date documentation. It is however in French as this is the language I master best. It is written with LaTeX, volunteers are welcome to translate to other languages. If you want to translate to your native language, drop a note in the Dr. Geo forum.

Read online the documentation in French for Dr. Geo II.

Participating to the Project

What does it mean to participate to Dr. Geo?

When involved in project like Dr. Geo, you are helping people to get a better software, better documented, better translated, better tested. You are helping the kids using Dr. Geo with their own XO laptop or any other computer device.

Moreover, you are helping yourself because you will collaborate with talented people and you will learn a lot from this experience.

Depending on your skill you can get involved to:

fix the English of these pages
improve Dr. Geo web presence
test
report defects
translate the user interface of the software
document and translate the documentation
design Dr. Geo courses
design graphics
learn from Dr. Geo design and fix bugs
learn from Dr. Geo design and implement new features

The first things to do to be involved: go to the Dr. Geo forum to say hello and explain what you want or you can do!

A lot of options and probably more...

Success Story

Deployments & Testimonials

Dr. Geo is used as a reference tool in South America to teach geometry with the XO Laptop. The Dr. Geo XO bundle was downloaded more than 180'000 times, it is quite a lot for a specialized educative application.
Dr. Geo is part of the Linex and Guadalinex Linux distribution deployed in the primary and secondary schools in the states of Extremadura and Andalusia, Spain.
Dr. Geo is part of the GeLibreEdu Linux distribution installed in the primary and secondary schools in the state of Geneva, Switzerland.

Feel free to add your reference below.

Alain Busser presented Dr. Geo at the French Research Institute in Mathematics Teaching (IREM) for probabilistic calculus.
Dr. Geo review in the MathemaTIC publication.
A user guide in Spanish
Another user guide in Spanish
Very interesting uses of the programming power tools by Alain Busser, mathematics teacher in the Réunion French Island.
Taller de geometría con DrGeoII de Silvia.
Aprendiendo con Ceibal 84 - "Geometría con Dr. Geo"
The people from Extremadura in Spain have produced a specific Squeak/Etoys image using intensively Dr. Geo, download the geometria-squeak image and enjoy it.
Piaget, Vygotsky, Kay. De la teorìa a la practica from Pato Acevedo.

Awards

Dr. Geo wins the ESUG 2008 Innovation Technology Awards

Among 21 competitors, DrGeo was ranked #1 by the attendees of the ESUG 2008 Conferences at Amsterdam.

The participants to the contest were invited to present their product in a large show room where the attendees could discover the products and discuss with the developers.

The 21 participants were great and many deserved to win.

Quality label for Dr. Geo

The label Qualità Didattica is given by an expert commision from the Italian institute INDIRE to award the didactic quality of sofware.

Dr. Geo received such a quality label from the INDIRE institute.

Dr. Geo awarded by AFUL

In 2000, Dr. Geo received an award in a contest organized by the French-speaking AFUL organization. Visit the press release at http://www.aful.org/presse/cp-concours.html for more information and involved participant to the contest.

Sponsorships

TOP

Dr. Geo was partly sponsored by TOP, the Taiwan Open Source Project, with funding from the Ministry of Economy, Taiwan.

TOP is a jointly managed project by Gjun Information Co.,Ltd., STEPS, and Software Liberty Association, Taiwan (SLAT).

ESUG

Dr. Geo macro-construction and Smalltalk scripting were sponsored by ESUG to promote the Smalltalk language.

Your organization

If you are interested to sponsor an active and innovative free open source project for education to provide support, maintenance or additional and custom developments, contact hilaire.fernandes [AT] gmail.com.

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