Re: [seul-edu] Site tools for Schoolforge

[Tony Riikonen <tony@ionstream.fi>]

Andrew Reid wrote:

> The web-based community forum thing is something that isn't going to
> happen over night. It wouldn't be that hard to develop something
> quickly using PHP + PostgreSQL, but there are certain requirements
> that will be (no doubt) imposed upon the developers. They really need
> to be nutted out so a specification for the web app can be handed to
> the developers.

Having looked at the list of programs to be used for developing and
maintaining Schoolforge the only two that in someway met the needs I
think the project has are Document Juggler and Zope. I don't know much
about this Picolibre thing because I didn't understand the language. But
the software in itself seemed to be at a really early stage. Sourceforge
is fine and we've used it for software development over a year ago. For
the last year we've been using CVS and our own MimerDesk environment.
These two have worked great together.

I'm not quite sure what you are going at Andrew, or maybe you just
didn't read my post to the list. I'll quote myself here:
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Subject:	The planned coalition and the functionality of this mailing
list.
Date:		Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:58:58 +0200
From:		Tony Riikonen <tony@ionstream.fi>
To:		seul-edu@seul.org

-- "Of course I would love the fact that this conversation would take
place
in groups in our public MimerDesk. 
Even objectively I think our environment would be very useful to the
group planning and actually creating things according to the decisions
of the coalition.
Groups in MimerDesk can have the following shared tools:
- Calendar
- Links
- Forums
- Files
- Reviews
- Polls
You can also "monitor forums" in MD. This means that you get every post
in the forums that you are monitoring in your e-mail inbox."
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And I'll add some more information to this quote. Our public MimerDesk
is up and running and a new group can be created instantly for this kind
of collaboration. The Forums have categorization and are more advanced
than I've seen anywhere else so far. The only thing really missing is
the possibility to choose between different kinds of views (such as tree
view). These are going to be implemented. If MimerDesk were to be
accepted as one of the collaboration tools, the experiences from that
collaboration would also help us develop better Open Source software.
Even though this coalition is more about groupware features, our aim is
at educational features at the moment. This is because we're quite
content with the way our group tools work at the moment.

Since we are going to be helping out with this coalition, I can't think
of a better partner. We have double the interest in making MimerDesk
work good if the coalition is working in MD. If the coalition leaders
come up with some needs that the MimerDesk environment doesn't satisfy,
we can implement new features rather quickly (of course depending on
size and possible outside contribution)

-- 
Tony Riikonen
www.mimerdesk.org