Re: [seul-edu] Fwd: ANN: Digikata LLC wins Open Source SBIR grant

[Jeff Nelson <jtnelson@emirates.net.ae>]

I think your best bet would be to modify the e-smith distribution for 
educational needs.
Jeff Nelson

On Saturday 22 September 2001 16:53, you wrote:
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> From: alan@digikata.com
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: ANN: Digikata LLC wins Open Source SBIR grant
>
> On September 4, 2001, Digikata LLC was awarded a Phase I, Small
> Business Innovation Research grant from the US Department of
> Education.  Digikata proposed that the educational sector could
> greatly benefit from the development of a low-cost server applicance
> based on Open Source technologies and Open Source processes. Over the
> next six months, the Phase I goals for my company are:
>
> 1) Develop a critera by which Digikata and schools can evaluate the
>    utility of open source components. Provide a survey of components
>    using this criteria.
>
> 2) Develop a prototype server applicance and deploy it in two
>    "template" environments. Two organizations within the Pomona
>    Unified School district have agreed to be the template
>    environments. Because education has such a wide variety of needs,
>    the Phase I prototype will be tuned to the needs of these
>    environments. However, see 3 below.
>
> 3) Engage the Open Source community by soliciting input regarding 1
>    and 2. In addition, make availiable downloads or CD's of the
>    protoype software to expand testing (and hopefully feature set)
>    beyond the two template environments.
>
> I was helped on the proposal by Doug Loss, Harry MacGregor, and Bill
> Ries-Knight, regulars on this list who proofread and sanity checked
>  my writing. (Thanks guys!) Right now, I'd love to hear from anyone
>  who might be interested in any of the above.  In the near future, I
>  hope to excerpt and release parts of the proposal and developing
>  evaluation criteria for schools. Hopefully, a "non-development"
>  version of the prototype will be availiable by late November.
>  However, I'll also speak with anyone who's interested about early
>  development versions of the server.
>
>
> -- alan
>
> --
> Alan Chen
> President and Lead Developer
> Digikata LLC
> (909)576-5489, alan@digikata.com
>
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