[seul-edu] Fw: yet another education project: it4school

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

This arrived this morning.  I tried to run the demo on the
website, but couldn't get into the system quickly.  Take a look
and let us know what you think.

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, asd asfd wrote:
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:24:20 -0800
> To: "seul" <majordomo@seul.org>
> From: "asd asfd" <js9s@lycos.com>
> CC: dloss@seul.org
> Reply-To: js9s@lycos.com
> Subject: yet another education project: it4school
> 
> 
> Declaring the release of it4school-0.1 you can get it from <a
> href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/it4school/";>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/it4school</a>.
> 
> 
> The system offers similar functionalities as many existing 
> projects, such as AUC, Roster, etc, but different in
> implementation.
> 
> 1. Scalable. It use OpenLDAP as central directory server,
> teachers, students, admins, parents, etc. It use Zope as the
> web publisher, and Postgres/MySQL as the database to store all
> information.  The application is fully distributed.
> 
> 2. Easily integrated:  The LDAP directory can be easily( in
> relative sense) integreted with Novell NDS, MS2k active
> directory, Lotus Directory server, etc. And mass import of any
> data into LDAP or SQL database is a well-exercised drill.
> 
> 3. This project has the whole school districts in mind, and
> designed that the LDAP holds all the directory info, but each
> school may have its own database for course schedules,
> homeworks, announcement, etc.  
> 
> 4. Frequently updated:  because it uses many existing
> OpenSource components which are constantly improving, instead
> of writing everything from scratch,  it will benefit from
> OpenSource revolution.
> 
> 
> The project is hosted at <a href="http://www.it4school.org";>
> http://www.it4school.org</a>
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> J.
> 
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