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RE: [school-discuss] Student Information Systems



Actually I don't know pearl, but a teacher who is not willing to learn
better get out of education!

I use PHP and MySQL for our website so I am somewhat familiar with the
relationship.  I teach HTML and will teach a class on PHP/MySQ for the first
time second quarter this year.

The trouble is our school needs something fairly soon and it looks like we
are going to have to pay for it.

I would be happy to help in anyway you think my skills could be used.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
[mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net]On Behalf Of Les
Richardson
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:13 PM
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Subject: RE: [school-discuss] Student Information Systems


Hi Doug,

> I am all for open source!  I am all for "control."  In fact that leads to
> one of the things that I love about PowerSchool.  It is web based and
> totally editable.  Drop what you don't want add what you need.  Totally
> configurable to our schools needs.
>
> If I could - I would write PowerSchool and make it open source but after I
> had spend the time and effort I couldn't afford to.

Well, you could help me write Open Admin for Schools. I'm writing it for a
couple of school divisions. It was originally an elementary school admin
package for small elementary schools (< 500 or so) (it's in use in 3
division's elementary schools), but now I'm adapting it for K-12 schools
and high school use.

It's entirely web based, written in perl, and uses a MySQL backend. You
could adapt it for use in your school...

Do you know perl? <grin, tongue firmly in cheek />

Les Richardson