Re: [seul-edu] Site tools for Schoolforge

[Harish Pillay 9v1hp <harish@iqmind.com>]

I would second David's suggestion.  In addition to inviting the folks at
sourceforge and phpgroupware, we should also get the Ximian folks on this
as well for we have to cover the outlook-refugees as well.

Harish

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:38:16AM -0000, David M. Bucknell wrote:
> Here's another perspective. Mimerdesk is indeed impressive; so too, however,
> is phpgroupware, and for that matter sourceforge. I am not at all against
> taking mimerdesk up on their offer, but I would stipulate that members of
> similar efforts such as phpgroupware, and even schoolmation, and perhaps
> others, be explicitly invited into the effort.  
> 
> Below I give what I think are a decent set of criteria for the first project
> and its tool. To me this is the necessary prelude to a choice of apps.
> 
> First, I want to say something about what I think/hope will/should be the airm
> of this coalition.
> 
> I'm involved because I would like to see us (the community) work together
> (pool resources to be more effective) to develop an effective means of:
> 
> 1. positive pr (promotion of free/open source)(This includes what
> opensourceschools.org does now and also news, which we have discussed a bit)
> 2. training
> 3. resources for all levels (users, sys admins, developers)
> 4. educational app host
> 5. educational lessons, courses and, eventually, curriculum
> 6. a pilot online school (eventually)
> 
> I used "means of" above, rather than "tool" because I do not mean a huge,
> all-inclusive app. In that sense, I agree with what Roger said yesterday with
> his list.
> 
> But of the above six tasks, the ones that this group should focus on, IMHO,
> are 3,4, and 5, with #4 the obvious first step as that is what people have
> most experience with. Furthermore, I am here to offer the not insignifcant
> foundation of opensourceschools.org for implementing 1, if not 2 and 3. 6 is
> down the line.
> 
> But I would like to see 4 and 5 combined. To do this requires not only
> software that can meet the needs of collaborating document developers as well
> as software developers (that's why I thought the sourceforge software needed
> extending), but also An INTERFACE adjustment to accomodate less techy, but
> nevertheless willing _teachers_ willing to write educational materials and
> curricula.
> 
> Again, I am not in favor of the Wiki as a curriculum tool.
> 
> The tool we want should:
> 1.allow the formation of projects for either software or curriculum (in which,
> for now, I'll include lessons, units, assessment, whole courses and entire
> school k-? plans)
> 2. provide bulletin board communication among project members/users
> 3. an optional tie-in to mailman
> 4. cvs for apps 
> 5. a version of cvs for texts and multimedia lessons (so that we can apply
> diff for example)
> 6. a front end that makes searching AND browsing of all projects possible 
> AND EASY
> 
> Participation in projects should NOT REQUIRE comfort with anything other than
> a browser.
> 
> David
> 
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