I think the schooltool team should create a nice environment first before you tell the people about SchoolTool. It is still ugly I think.
I think SchoolTool has to be renewed. The environment is not very logical and it doen't look professional at all. 2011/11/18 Gediminas Paulauskas <[email protected]> > 2011/11/18 Tom Hoffman <[email protected]>: > > SchoolTool has always lacked a punchy slogan. We've basically been > > stuck with something like "SchoolTool is a suite of free > > administrative software for schools around the world." It was just > > the best we (mostly me) could come up with. > > > > As I was staring at that at the top of our new web page -- coming > > Tuesday -- the phrase "the Global Student Information System" popped > > into my head. I think that's pretty good. Also google indicates > > nobody really uses it. > > But SchoolTool is to be installed locally in each school. > > For someone in government looking for new software, a deployment model > is important. But it is not only not global, but even things that are > common to all school in a country (e.g. school years, holidays, > subjects in secondary schools) cannot be managed centrally. > > On the other end, for someone looking for software to run their > private school, global is not an advantage and may scare off. > > > Variations: > > > > The Global Student Information System > > A Global Student Information System > > The Free Global Student Information System > > > > Also there are terms other than "student information system" -- these > > are often called "management information systems" etc., but those > > don't necessarily get across the school connection without extra > > words. > > Isn't it a school management system? It helps manage information not > only about students, but teachers and projectors as well ;) > > -- > Gediminas > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Kind Regards, Dooitze de Jong. Facebook <http://facebook.com/dooitzedejong>, Twitter<http://twitter.com/dyidejong> , Blog <http://dooitzedejong.wordpress.com> Leader Ubuntu Fryslân <https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-fry/> Experience with Ubuntu, LAMP, openVPN and much more stuff
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