Re: [school-discuss] Student Information Systems

[Yishay Mor <y.mor@ioe.ac.uk>]

Interesting - from my point of view, a lot of what "Student Information 
System should do" is what you describe as the specification support 
system: provide an infrastructure for collective construction of knowledge.

One small suggestion: Use Plone instead of a wiki.  You can even get one 
for free at http://www.objectis.org/english.

I also suggest that the first phase of specification, as should be 
(IMHO) in any project, will be research.  For instance, there are a few 
Plone-based student systems, and of course, there are all the systems 
you mentioned.

- Yishay


Tim Mansfield wrote:

> I think we should collectively develop a specification for what an open
> source Student Information System should do.
> [..]
> We could set up a website to do this requirements capture -- for starters,
> maybe it'd be just a wiki, some doc archival facility, and some mailing
> lists.  
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