Re: [seul-edu] (content managment system)

[Bob Sewell <bob@bobsewell.com>]

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Mark de Haan wrote:

>The Site@School CMS's next release (1.1) will be international. The site is
>being translated to English and 1.1 will be fully compatible with Mozilla
>1.0. A release date has not yet been set because of lack of time on my side,
>but will probably be somewhere in november or december. Anyone who would
>like to assist in development or translation of the language file to other
>languages than english and dutch is very welcome to e-mail me.
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>Mark (the programmer of site@school)
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>>This CMS looks very professional. I couldn't find an English description
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>>at the site, but I did run across some specs (in Dutch). It looks like it
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>>written in PHP (rather than Perl) and MySQL, which means that it is
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>>-Doug
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>>Dirk Schouten <schoutdi@knoware.nl> said:
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>>>Hi Doug,
>>>I almost forgot to propose for inclusion on the ISO, the applcation that
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>>>most used in our primary school: our Content Management System.
>>>It is specially developed for primary schools and draws quite some
>>>attention in Holland. The CMS was financed by the Educational Department
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>>>our municipality "De Baarsjes', part of the City of Amsterdam, Holland.
>>>Ofcourse it's OSS/GPL and it's written in Perl and available in English
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>>>Dutch (at the moment). It's easy to adapt the CMS to other languages
>>>because there is only one language file to translate.
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>>>A blurb, translated from a Dutch site:
>>>Site@School makes setting up and maintaining a website an easy task.
>>>It enables webmasters to add advanced possibilities to the site without
>>>programming like personal homepages for pupils. Pupils can easily add
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>>>Due to the extended possibilties site at school can easily be compared
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>>> expensive commercial systems.
>>>Download: http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net
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>>>That's all,
>>>Kind regards,
>>>Dirk
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