Re: [seul-edu] Intro and Help please

["Mike Norton" <mike@sierrapinesacademy.org>]

Hi Ben.  This really looks good. I would love to help out on the development
team in any way I can.  I have MySQL and PHP experiance, and im a layout and
graphics artist.

Mike Norton

Sierra Pines Academy
http://www.sierrapinesacademy.org
BlueBoy Multimedia
http://www.blueboymultimedia.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Efros" <Ben@Efros.com>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Intro and Help please


> Hi Mike,
> Sounds like you are looking for a scaled down student information system
( SIS ).  The OpenSIS project (www.opensis.org) is working on a very
advanced and complete form of what you are seeking, but it is not even near
being complete. Development on the software is still in infancy, but the
software will be mostly written in PHP.  At this point, OpenSIS cannot do
anything "productive" ... the project has at least 8 to 12 months of good
development work to go.
>
> www.opensis.org outlines all the project's main goals (roughly) on the
main page.  OpenSIS will allow teachers, school administrators, and students
to all login and do specialized functions and view information applicable to
them.
>
> The project needs more PHP developers at this point, but even if you do
not have PHP experience I would encourage you to join the sis-devel mailing
list (linked from opensis.org).
>
> I have heard that schoolmation.net might be able to help you, however it
looks hard to use and looks to be quite a pain to maintain the system.
Schoolmation is probably the first open source student information system
and it definately shows.  OpenSIS aims to be the second-generation open
source SIS with many more features and much more support for LARGE schools
and school districts.
>
> Ben Efros
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:44:37 -0700
> Mike Norton <mike@sierrapinesacademy.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > My name is Mike Norton and I am the Administrator for a public charter
> > school called Sierra Pines Academy.
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> > I love Linux and im working on setting our school up to use all linux
> > servers for all of its admin work.  This brings me to the need for
> > help.
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> > I am desperately needing a package that will allow us to input grades
> > and produce report cards and transcripts.  This is something that
> > will be school wide rather than teacher centric.
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> > We also need a good system for the teachers to post assignments and
> > homework so parents can be involved.  And what would be wonderfull
> > is if these two systems would work together.  BUT the first one is
> > a MUST have.  I could write one using php and MySQL but I simply
> > do not have the time.
> >
> > Does anyone out there know of something we can use?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Mike Norton
> > http://www.sierrapinesacademy.org
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