[seul-edu] schoolforge frontpage - App Index

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

> I remember Blue Linux saying yes and wonder if all the apps projects/companies
> who are active participants (schoomation, mimerdesk, Manhattan etc.) can
> somehow be listed other than just on the apps page? Perhaps in an expandable
> (javascript?) list?

There are a variety of approaches that could be used. One approach would
be to add an attribute to the current index listing "associate group" that
a particular application is associated with so that one can easily build
dynamically created (and perhaps javascript controlled) "views".

Another useful attribute is timestamping (which currently exists in
database but isn't being used.)

Of course the application index, case studies, links can all be called
remotely (and I can add more callable attributes (i.e.
?format=lang&sortorder=date) to control format) and poured into a frame
(if static page), etc. 

Currently all formats of these reports are controlled by a CSS stylesheet
which is easily changed, etc.

It all depends on what is desired for look and feel.

Les Richardson

> 
> Who's doing the work? Felipe and Roger, I assume? Speak up if you want help,
> please.
> 
> David
> Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu> said:
> 
> > Ok, I've put these items into something approximating what we might see
> > on a frontpage of my idea schoolforge site. Nearly all of the resources
> > I'm envisioning don't currently have URLs or any solutions actually
> > available. The road ahead of us is very long, but wide. :)
> > 
> > I haven't put this in pretty html, but that's easy to do once we've
> > decided we like this idea.
> > 
> > What am I missing? Is this a really good start or a really bad idea?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > * Current news and headlines for open source software in education
> >     http://opensourceschools.org/
> > 
> > * Case studies and success stories of open source software in schools
> >     http://richtech.ca/seul/casedex.html
> >     http://www.k12ltsp.org/casestudy.html
> >     http://www.osef.org/
> >     Riverdale, Beacon, etc
> > 
> > * Ready-made educational software packages
> >   * for students (deb, rpm)
> >     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
> >   * for teachers (deb, rpm)
> >   * for school admins (deb, rpm)
> >   * for system admins (deb, rpm)
> > 
> > * Download a CD of school-related software (students, sysadmins)
> >     http://linuxforkids.com/ (students)
> >     http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/K12LTSP/ (sysadmins)
> >     plus 'teachers' if we make a cd for them
> > 
> > * Search a list of in-progress educational applications and reviews
> >     http://linuxforkids.com/
> >     http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/
> >     http://richtech.ca/seul/
> >     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
> > 
> > * Weekly reports on the status of the Linux in education community
> >     http://www.seul.org/edu/reports.html
> > 
> > * Discuss Linux in education -- mailing list (list archives), wiki
> >   http://www.seul.org/edu/
> >   http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/
> >   http://eduwiki.seul.org:8080/ and others
> > 
> > * Educational software development and hosting resources
> >     http://www.seul.org/pub/hosting.html
> >     http://edu.kde.org/projects/
> >     http://www.ofset.org/
> > 
> > * Comprehensive (unsorted) list of free software education projects
> >   worldwide
> >   http://seuldat.seul.org/
> >   (once we compile it from www.seul.org/edu/links.html and others)
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > On the plate later: (somebody want to set up these pages, and the material
> >                      behind them? You could be famous!)
> > * Volunteer to help! I'm a:
> >   Student
> >   Teacher
> >   School Admin
> >   Sysadmin
> > * Press releases and publicity
> >   http://opensourceschools.org?
> >   Red Hat's PR team?
> > * Advocating free software to
> >   * schools
> >     (and even various types of schools)
> >     * to teachers
> >     * to school admins
> >   * governments
> >   * corporations
> > * Donate money to the Linux in Education non-profit (tax deductable)
> > * Find people who are donating hardware in your area
> >   eg computerbank
> > * Curricula for teachers for better using Linux in the classroom
> >   * Ready-to-use curricula
> >   * Help write new ones
> >     http://itp.innoved.org/wiki/freecourse (?)
> >     http://richtech.ca/testbank/ (?)
> > * Search LUG contacts worldwide
> >   Find educational volunteer contacts local to you
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David M. Bucknell
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