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 _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
