Tom Hoffman wrote:

>need some kind of FOSS branding at NECC to make more of a collective
>impact.
>  
>
How about The Open CD? We could ship a few thousand and spread them
around the conference center, with people in matching T-shirts.

>There seemed to be widespread interest in Moodle.  It looks like it
>may become the killer app for open source in US schools, so making
>SchoolTool play nice with Moodle is probably a good idea.  We'll need
>a PHP library to wrap our web services, I think.
>  
>
Uuurrggghh... php. We decided to put Moodle and Mediawiki into EduBuntu
so they work out of the box. Bye-bye security, but it looks great! Maybe
we can get mediawiki re-written as a Zope3 component.

>I gave a small, informal presentation of SchoolTool at the Linux email
>garden and had some very interesting conversations.  Looks like we'll
>have an elementary school in New York City using SchoolTool for
>calendaring.
>
Fantastic!

>time Python user and advocate.  His students have been working on a
>competency tracking system called CanDo to be used in schools in
>Virginia, see http://cando.sourceforge.net/docs.php?doc=docs/background
> The first version was knocked together in Zope 2, but they're working
>on a new version that will run on top of SchoolTool, with the
>intention of using it in the fall.
>  
>
This would be a tremendous step. Well done Tom, and thanks for the report!

Mark

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