Re: [school-discuss] ZIS Server Dreams

[Michael Williams <mwilliams@haywood.k12.nc.us>]

 ..open-source Microsoft ZIS? On the sales page.

Michael

Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> Dominique Broeglin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 06:12, Tonnesen Steve wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Les Richardson wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I've been looking at the SIF specs and muttering...oh my, oh my, ...
> > > >
> > > > It seems to me that there are several things that have to come before the
> > > > ZIS server
> > > >
> > >
> > > My thinking is that developing a ZIS server would be an excellent way to
> > > come up with a solid #2.  It's going to be pretty hard for open source
> > > developers to add ZIS support to an application if they don't have access
> > > to a ZIS server in any case.  Also, I believe that we already have some
> > > applications that could benefit from the addition of SIF.
> > >
> > >
> >         I had not much time to read the spec but of what I've read I think the
> > server in itself isn't much work. The main parts are the communication
> > libraries used by the agents and the server. I think the development in
> > of the toolkits would be the main part of the development of the server.
> > So server and toolkit developments should take place in parallel
> > (permiting unit and functionnal testing along the way).
> 
> I think that our first order ought to be developing a general agent that can talk
> to any ZIS server and can be easily added to existing open source applications.  As
> Steve says, Bruno's EduML might be helpful here.  This would be of great benefit to
> getting Linux into schools even if we _never_ develop an open source ZIS server.
> Of course, we will, but I think the agent or agents need to be the first priority.
> 
> I think we're getting far enough in this discussion to think about setting up a
> formal project.  How about OpenSIF <http://opensif.org>?  Whoops, opensif.org
> exists.  Take a look at it and see if these folks have already developed what we're
> talking about!
> 
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