I develop for and use an Open Source PHP/MySQL content management system called PostNuke (http://community.postnuke.com/index.htm) and its value-added distribution called OpenStar (http://openstar.postnuke.com/). PostNuke possesses a rich development API and an extensive library of application modules, blocks, and user interfaces (called themes). I have been quite pleased with the system's standards-based modular design, its security and its language support. PostNuke supports LDAP authentication and I am in the early stages of trying to provide web-based Skolelinux thin-client access through my PostNuke portals.
I believe PostNuke would be a good choice as the basis for a Skolelinux web portal and offer my help in building the site if this system is of interest to the rest of the community. Best Regards, Mark On 2/4/07, RalfGesellensetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear List, Recently Knut, Josè and others announced a cooperation of Debian-Edu and LinEx. One chance I see here, is further improvement of the workstation profile, especially by adding more educative applications and usability. At the moment we have the Linuxsignpost project [1]. Its design is marvellous, but the project is kind of stalled. It uses a MySQL data base + some homebrewn PHP frontend. Additionally, we started a wiki table of free educative applications [2]. But this has proven quite uncomfortable, personally, I am convinced we need some relational database that can easily be extended. As my knowledge of PHP+MySQL is very basical, I'd go for a sqlite solution (OOo or knoda) - but maybe there is other people feeling the urge of such a project? I read, that GAMBAS II has got an interface for MySQL as well. Does the LinEx project use a database to collect informations about educational software? What is your suggestions? Is there anybody else interested in such a data base, maybe based on [1]? Thank you Regards Ralf [1] http://www.skolelinux.no/linux-signpost/showUserMenu.php [2] http://wiki.skolelinux.de/LernSoftware
