I can't tell you how happy I am that ST is alive and well, Tom! I want to use it for the rest of my teaching career, which means about 12 years, so I'm hoping you can keep it going that long ;-)
Congratulations on making the transition to self-sustaining! Jeff Elkner Arlington, VA On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Tom Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > SIELibre, LLC has released SchoolTool 2.8.4, a bugfix release of our free > student information system. This release addresses two issues: > > 1432672 -- report cards omitting grades under certain circumstances; > 1436881 -- comment dialog not working with certain browsers. > > The standard upgrade procedure applies. You must be using the 2.8 PPA in > Launchpad to receive this update. See: > > http://book.schooltool.org/install-2_0.html#upgrading-schooltool > > > SchoolTool News > > Mark Shuttleworth began the SchoolTool project over 10 years ago and was the > primary funder of development through the end of 2014. SIELibre, LLC, > comprised of longtime project manager Tom Hoffman and lead developer Douglas > Cerna, has now successfully continued support and development of SchoolTool > on a commercial basis for six months, with good prospects for continuing > this work indefinitely. > > In particular we have been working with a London-based charity, Absolute > Return for Kids (ARK), on pilot deployments in Uganda and India. They have > funded a number of features that will be in upcoming SchoolTool releases. > > While the good news is that we have remained busy working on SchoolTool, the > bad news is that we are stuck in a classic dilemma for commercial businesses > managing open source projects. We have not had time to do the (unpaid) work > of packaging a major feature release. We were hoping to put out SchoolTool > 3.0 close to the beginning of the year. Now it is July, and we have a > number of paid projects queuing up for release before the beginning of the > Northern Hemisphere school year. > > We need to dedicate a solid two to three weeks of work to do a round of > further bug fixing and merge the new features into a solid new release. > Thus, we will probably be well into fall (October/November) before we will > be able to release SchoolTool 3.0. > > More details on SchoolTool 3.0 will follow as we get closer, but the biggest > new features are a completely redesigned “School” page, which streamlines > common tasks considerably; and a fee tracking system. > > Cheers, > Tom Hoffman > Managing Partner > SIELibre, LLC > http://sielibre.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
