Re: [seul-edu] Great do list from Teemu: Forming a coalition

["David M. Bucknell" <david@members.iteachnet.com>]

Ok. I'm with you guys on the name. I think the poll is great, and appreciate
people putting up with the brainstorming, and the great work that went into
setting it up!, but maybe it served its purpose and schoolforge will do. What
do others think? Or should it be added to the poll?

Teemu's right that mimer desk is pretty cool and I'm looking forward to its
new version. I suggest, though, that we start with sourceforge that Roger has
installed and see how it does and doesn't meet the needs we define. We know
that sf fits the app development part of our needs, and can be tweeked. As
Roger says we will probably need other tools for other tasks (again, I'd like
to hear someone defend wikis as curriculum tools. I don't see that they are do
the right things.)

I don't want to alienate any particular app developers by not picking their
tools, though, and none of them is custom made for exactly what we want to do.

David

Teemu <teemu@ionstream.fi> said:

> On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:12, you wrote:
> >  Speaking of names, the acronyms that you guys are throwing around are fun,
> >  but they don't mean anything to me. Why do we have to have what amounts
> >  to a 'secret codename' for our group? How about something clearer, like
> >  the Schoolforge Coalition? Or the Schoolforge Group. Or just Schoolforge.
>
> IMHO, we have too many acronyms already. Acronyms are simply boring and not
> innovative at all. Schoolforge is simple and easy to remember. My vote.
>
> >  We might be much more comfortable using
> >  phpgroupware (http://www.phpgroupware.org/).
> >  Mike set up a demo at http://www.findaschool.org/~mviron/phpgroupware/
> >  (user admin password admintest)
>
> Have you seen our open source project, MimerDesk? It's a lot like
> phpgroupware but will support education as well and not just the groupware
> stuff. There is also better communication available atm.
>
> We are soon releasing the first public version, 1.5.0. It will be fine for
> most of the work. After the release we start building a new core. In short,
> we are writing MimerDesk from scratch to better match the needs of the
> development and future needs of education and accessibility.
>
> Check it out if you haven't. www.mimerdesk.org.
>
> - teemu
>



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