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 <h2>Introduction</h2>

 <p>We propose to move the IDE4EDU component from the <a href="/soc">SOC</a>
 project into this new project. The Eclipse IDE for Education is a
 version of Eclipse streamlined specifically for use by university and
 college students. The environment provides support for programming
 languages that are commonly used in university courses, including Java,
 Scheme, and Prolog.</p>

 <p>Our initial efforts are focused on providing an environment with
 reduced clutter that allows students to focus on their immediate
 requirement of getting classroom work done. To that end, the current
 implementation provides a streamlined Java development environment featuring stripped
 down versions of wizards for creating common elements. We anticipate
 that students will use this environment in their first months of
 learning and then progress to a more complete Eclipse configuration.</p>

 <p>Our next most immediate focus is to provide support for other
 languages commonly used in post-secondary education such as Scheme and
 Prolog (Scheme support is expected soon, pending a positive outcome from
 our IP due diligence process).</p>

 <p>Fundamentally, this project is concerned with providing an IDE specifically
 tuned to the needs of students. In that regard, we view the scope of this
 project to include such things as streamlining the installation and configuration
 of the IDE, assignment workflow, collaboration, and more.</p>

 <h2>Scope</h2>
 <p>
 The objectives of the IDE4EDU project are to:
 <ul>
 	<li>Develop and maintain a streamlined version of the Java development tools
 	that reduces the knowledge and understanding required for students and
 	other first-time users to get started.</li>

 	<li>Reduce the overall burden of adoption of Eclipse technology
 	for students.</li>

 	<li>Develop and maintain first-class support for so-called
 	academic and research languages such as Scheme and Prolog</li>

 	<li>Provide support for other aspects of the overall student
 	experience, including such things as assignment workflow management,
 	and collaboration tools.</li>
 </ul>
 </p>

 <p>You are invited to comment on and/or join the project. Please send
 all feedback to the <a
 	href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.ide4edu">eclipse.ide4edu</a>
 newsgroup.</p>

 <h2>Initial Contributions</h2>

 <p>The IDE4EDU component from the SOC project will be moved into this
 new project.</p>

 <h2>Organization</h2>

 <h3>Mentors</h3>
 <ul>
 	<li>Wayne Beaton (wayne@eclipse.org)</li>
 	<li>Boris Bokowski (Boris_Bokowski@ca.ibm.com)</li>
 </ul>

 <h3>Initial committers</h3>

 <p>The initial committers and contributors are:</p>

 <ul>
 	<li>Wayne Beaton (wayne@eclipse.org) : Project Lead, Committer</li>
 	<li>Dwight Deugo (deugo@scs.carleton.ca) : Project Lead, Committer</li>
 	<li>Ian Kennedy (ikennedy@connect.carleton.ca) : Committer</li>
 </ul>

 <h3>Code Contribution</h3>

 <p>The IDE4EDU component from the SOC project will be moved into this
 new project as a component. This code has already been vetted by the IP
 due diligence process and has a mature automated build process.</p>

 <h3>Interested parties</h3>

 <ul>
 	<li>Martin Oberhuber (martin.oberhuber@windriver.com)</li>
 	<li>Scott Gray (scott@oreilly.com)</li>
 	<li>Andrews Overholt (overholt@redhat.com)</li>
 	<li>Charlie Kelly (Charlie@CharlieKelly.com)</li>
 	<li>Roy Ganor (roy@zend.com), <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">PDT</a></li>
 	<li>Vittorio Scarano (vitsca@dia.unisa.it), <a
 		href="http://www.coffee-soft.org/">CoFFEE Project</a></li>
 	<li>Ilaria Manno (manno@dia.unisa.it), <a
 		href="http://www.coffee-soft.org/">CoFFEE Project</a></li>
 	<li>Lee Myers (Lee.Myers@ewc.wy.edu), Computer Science Instructor,
 	Easter Wyoming College</li>
 	<li>Marlos Guimarães (marlos.jrg@gmail.com)</li>
 	<li>Lou Nel (ldnel@scs.carleton.ca), Professor of Computer Science,
 	Carleton University</li>
 	<li>Jakub Jurkiewicz (jakub.jurkiewicz@pl.ibm.com)</li>
 </ul>


 <h3>User community</h3>

 <p>The intended user community is composed almost entirely of secondary
 and post-secondary students. However, the streamlined environment may
 have appeal in some segments of industry or for self-directed education.</p>

 <h3>Tentative Plan</h3>

 <p>The first step is to complete the move of the existing code base and
 build process into the new project.</p>

 <p>One of the main reasons for wanting IDE4EDU to be a separate project
 is to better enable it to schedule releases that can be included in
 packages generated by the <a href="/epp">Eclipse Packaging Project</a>.
 We therefore intend to schedule a release based on the existing code
 base as soon as possible so that we can join with the Packaging Project.</p>

 <p>The next step is to include some work that's being done on support
 for the Scheme (see <a
 	href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242444">Bug 242444</a>)
 and Prolog languages.</p>

 <p>This project is intended to attract some amount of research and
 exploratory work. We have been in contact with the <a
 	href="http://www.coffee-soft.org/home.aspx">CoFFEE</a> project about
 possible integration and synergistic work. We have also started
 discussions with students about extending the environment to include
 functionality for students to obtain assignments, and submit their work
 in an automated fashion.</p>


 <h3>Changes in this document</h3>
 <p>2009-01-28: Modified the wording (but not the meaning) of the Introduction section</p>
 <p>2009-01-27: Added Marlos Guimarães, Lou Nel, and Jakub Jurkiewicz as
 interested parties</p>
 <p>2009-01-23: Added Ian Kennedy as a project committer; added Vittorio
 Scarano, Ilaria Manno, and Lee Myers as interested parties</p>
 <p>2009-01-07: Added Roy Ganor as an interested party</p>
 <p>2009-01-06: Added Charlie Kelly as an interested party</p>
 <p>2009-01-05: Added Andrew Overholt as an interested party</p>
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	<h2>Introduction</h2>

	<p>We propose to move the IDE4EDU component from the <a href="/soc">SOC</a>
	project into this new project. The Eclipse IDE for Education is a
	version of Eclipse streamlined specifically for use by university and
	college students. The environment provides support for programming
	languages that are commonly used in university courses, including Java,
	Scheme, and Prolog.</p>

	<p>Our initial efforts are focused on providing an environment with
	reduced clutter that allows students to focus on their immediate
	requirement of getting classroom work done. To that end, the current
	implementation provides a streamlined Java development environment featuring stripped
	down versions of wizards for creating common elements. We anticipate
	that students will use this environment in their first months of
	learning and then progress to a more complete Eclipse configuration.</p>

	<p>Our next most immediate focus is to provide support for other
	languages commonly used in post-secondary education such as Scheme and
	Prolog (Scheme support is expected soon, pending a positive outcome from
	our IP due diligence process).</p>

	<p>Fundamentally, this project is concerned with providing an IDE specifically
	tuned to the needs of students. In that regard, we view the scope of this
	project to include such things as streamlining the installation and configuration
	of the IDE, assignment workflow, collaboration, and more.</p>

	<h2>Scope</h2>
	<p>
	The objectives of the IDE4EDU project are to:
	<ul>
	<li>Develop and maintain a streamlined version of the Java development tools
	that reduces the knowledge and understanding required for students and
	other first-time users to get started.</li>

	<li>Reduce the overall burden of adoption of Eclipse technology
	for students.</li>

	<li>Develop and maintain first-class support for so-called
	academic and research languages such as Scheme and Prolog</li>

	<li>Provide support for other aspects of the overall student
	experience, including such things as assignment workflow management,
	and collaboration tools.</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	<p>You are invited to comment on and/or join the project. Please send
	all feedback to the <a
	href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.ide4edu">eclipse.ide4edu</a>
	newsgroup.</p>

	<h2>Initial Contributions</h2>

	<p>The IDE4EDU component from the SOC project will be moved into this
	new project.</p>

	<h2>Organization</h2>

	<h3>Mentors</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Wayne Beaton (wayne@eclipse.org)</li>
	<li>Boris Bokowski (Boris_Bokowski@ca.ibm.com)</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Initial committers</h3>

	<p>The initial committers and contributors are:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>Wayne Beaton (wayne@eclipse.org) : Project Lead, Committer</li>
	<li>Dwight Deugo (deugo@scs.carleton.ca) : Project Lead, Committer</li>
	<li>Ian Kennedy (ikennedy@connect.carleton.ca) : Committer</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Code Contribution</h3>

	<p>The IDE4EDU component from the SOC project will be moved into this
	new project as a component. This code has already been vetted by the IP
	due diligence process and has a mature automated build process.</p>

	<h3>Interested parties</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>Martin Oberhuber (martin.oberhuber@windriver.com)</li>
	<li>Scott Gray (scott@oreilly.com)</li>
	<li>Andrews Overholt (overholt@redhat.com)</li>
	<li>Charlie Kelly (Charlie@CharlieKelly.com)</li>
	<li>Roy Ganor (roy@zend.com), <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">PDT</a></li>
	<li>Vittorio Scarano (vitsca@dia.unisa.it), <a
	href="http://www.coffee-soft.org/">CoFFEE Project</a></li>
	<li>Ilaria Manno (manno@dia.unisa.it), <a
	href="http://www.coffee-soft.org/">CoFFEE Project</a></li>
	<li>Lee Myers (Lee.Myers@ewc.wy.edu), Computer Science Instructor,
	Easter Wyoming College</li>
	<li>Marlos Guimarães (marlos.jrg@gmail.com)</li>
	<li>Lou Nel (ldnel@scs.carleton.ca), Professor of Computer Science,
	Carleton University</li>
	<li>Jakub Jurkiewicz (jakub.jurkiewicz@pl.ibm.com)</li>
	</ul>


	<h3>User community</h3>

	<p>The intended user community is composed almost entirely of secondary
	and post-secondary students. However, the streamlined environment may
	have appeal in some segments of industry or for self-directed education.</p>

	<h3>Tentative Plan</h3>

	<p>The first step is to complete the move of the existing code base and
	build process into the new project.</p>

	<p>One of the main reasons for wanting IDE4EDU to be a separate project
	is to better enable it to schedule releases that can be included in
	packages generated by the <a href="/epp">Eclipse Packaging Project</a>.
	We therefore intend to schedule a release based on the existing code
	base as soon as possible so that we can join with the Packaging Project.</p>

	<p>The next step is to include some work that's being done on support
	for the Scheme (see <a
	href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242444">Bug 242444</a>)
	and Prolog languages.</p>

	<p>This project is intended to attract some amount of research and
	exploratory work. We have been in contact with the <a
	href="http://www.coffee-soft.org/home.aspx">CoFFEE</a> project about
	possible integration and synergistic work. We have also started
	discussions with students about extending the environment to include
	functionality for students to obtain assignments, and submit their work
	in an automated fashion.</p>


	<h3>Changes in this document</h3>
	<p>2009-01-28: Modified the wording (but not the meaning) of the Introduction section</p>
	<p>2009-01-27: Added Marlos Guimarães, Lou Nel, and Jakub Jurkiewicz as
	interested parties</p>
	<p>2009-01-23: Added Ian Kennedy as a project committer; added Vittorio
	Scarano, Ilaria Manno, and Lee Myers as interested parties</p>
	<p>2009-01-07: Added Roy Ganor as an interested party</p>
	<p>2009-01-06: Added Charlie Kelly as an interested party</p>
	<p>2009-01-05: Added Andrew Overholt as an interested party</p>
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