On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:39:32 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote > SchoolTool is still very early in its development cycle. It > would be great to have SchoolTool and SchoolBell working out of > the box in SkoleLinux, but I don't think SchoolTool itself s yet > ready for active promotion rather than early testing and feedback.
having schooltool and schoolbell readilly available in debian-edu could help with the testing. As I told Steve Alexander last year in February, I am ready to help with the translation to French of schooltool and schoolbell once it is localized using gettext tools. This could also help with the tests of these tools in France, Belgium and other Frenchspaeking countries. in France, another tool, similar apparently to schooltool (for some features at least, maybe not calendar planning, and initially focused on notations management and record publication) is rather popular: it is GEPI http://gepi.mutualibre.org/ Its objective is : L'objectif de GEPI est la gestion p�dagogique des �l�ves et de leur scolarit�. Dans ce but, des donn�es sont collect�es et stock�es dans une base unique de type MySql. Its technology is based on LAMP (php-mysql) It has evolved in a more general management tool to manage the classroom. Some collaboration (at least on the definition of the feature and further exchanges) could be investigated, to help also with the developpement of schooltool, at least first in a direction that would be complementary to GEPI. Maybe GEPI could be internationalized and localized to English to help with the cooperation too. I would be ready, as a teacher, to try and evaluate schooltool, and I now other people who would be ready to help too in Belgium, but we *need* to have the software in French for them to be used (aka tested) in our schools. Thanks, Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux
