Re: [seul-edu] Consolidated gradebook effort

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@seul.org>]

Hi,

I'm really want to help in developping a gradebook and especialy you
Eric as you want to use GTK/Gnome + EDUML, and I can help you in the
Glade, libglade & libxml department.

I don't really know at which stage you are but i will just throw some
idea and remarks - they may not be accurate at all

It will be a good idea to separate the GUI of the gradebook from the
core of the gradebook. We will define an abstract GUI from which
specific GUI will be derived. This will make port more easy and will
allow to have both a GTK & HTML interface. So the gradebook could be
used as a standalone application and also as a kind of CGI in a
school web server.

If you want to have a mutiplateforme gradebook, you may better
choosing an interpreted language as Python (supported in Win32 &
GNU/Linux), this will provide far better portability. Plus under
GNU/Linux, libglade & GNUGettext is supported. Beside this, Python
looks like an intersting language & easy to learn.

Anyway, whatever you decide i'm ready to help you. Do you have an url
with information on your actual work.

Hilaire


Eric Sandeen writes:
 > Doug Loss wrote: <snip> > Tim Wilson and Eric > Sandeen, early on
 > you were listed as working on a gradebook definition, > but that
 > never got off the ground.  Would you be interested in working >
 > with others on getting a serious gradebook for Linux going?
 > 
 > I think the existing gradebook definition is actually not in TOO
 > bad of shape, but I'm sure it could be improved.  I've never seen a
 > Free Software project work that way, though - where someone posts a
 > list of features, and someone else goes out and codes it.  :)
 > 
 > I've actually been *slowly* working on my version of a gradebook -
 > I have a Glade file if anyone is interested.  I'm a novice, though,
 > so I'm taking time to learn Glade, libglade, libxml, GTK...
 > 
 > My only concern with KTeacher (hrm, I hate saying this...) is that
 > it's written with Qt.  Not for the normal reasons, though.  My
 > vision (which I may or may not be able to implement) is a Free
 > Software gradebook that runs on Windows as well as Linux.  GTK,
 > libxml, etc, can all be compiled and run under Win32.  Qt has a
 > Windows version, but it's not free speech OR free beer, so that's
 > out.  That's why I was concentrating on GTK, and not even planning
 > any Gnome features.
 > 
 > Last note - in looking at EduML for a data format, I've found some
 > things which I think need to be fixed - or at least things that
 > would work better for my particular application.  I'll try to
 > summarize them and post them.  Probably better suited for another
 > thread.
 > 
 > I think I've got some pretty good ideas for the gradebook,
 > including the GUI, features, etc.  I'd like to collaborate, as
 > well...  I'm certainly going nowhere fast by myself.  :)
 > 
 > -Eric