Re: [seul-edu] Intro and Help please

[Rajiv Banerji <rajivbanerji@roltanet.com>]

Hello Ben.
Fantastic work!!! Criticism of any form is the only sure sign that you are 
doing something very valuable and imp. If people have time to be critics, 
then you sure are right on track, dead on. Of course, you already know that.

I would love to help out with the Project. I have extensive industry-level 
experience in PHP and MySQL and have to date been involved from Proj Mgr to 
Lead Developer etc in over 40 sites and 9 portals - most all in PHP and MySQL.
I have also worked in Germany and UK for over 4 yrs in my 16 yrs of 
experience. 

Additionally, I have taught PHP, Oracle DBA/Tuning and Linux Networking  for 
a year in an esteemed Engg college here in '99 [sabbatical]. 

I think this project is so imp. that I am happy to skip other activities as 
long as it takes.

I also have about 6 experienced co-programmers who are willing to give 
varying amounts of their time. 

I might also mention that I have [solo] developed a 70,000 word PHP 
programming tutorial; I have cut thro the hype, included a liberal amt of 
humour, wyriewyt [read,exactly,type] , and guarantee can get my very 
discerning Granma upto speed in a month.
This would help produce more PHP programmers later down the line.

All PHP queries can be mailed to me on my tutorial and I will be glad 
hand-lead the novices as they baby-step into PHP.
This is how I helped make over 98 students in to well-paid programmers to 
date.

Hope I can be honoured by being of any assistance.

Thanks 
Rajiv 
Bombay, INDIA
RHCE [UK], RHCX[UK], OCP-DBA


















On Thursday 30 August 2001 09:08 am, you wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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