Re: [seul-edu] Consolidated gradebook effort

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> The School Interoperability Framework (SIF - www.schoolsinterop.org)
> addresses this pretty well, I think.  (See my posts from a month or so
> ago...)  A SIF client on the front of a gradebook would be a really good
> way to go.  Someone just needs to port the Zone Integration Server to
> Linux...  the source is available, and the license is liberal.
> ( http://www.microsoft.com/education/partneropp/download.asp )
> 
> Using this framework has the advantage of integrating with commercial
> applications, as well.
> 
But if you need to put a client on the front of the program, why not put
a client for EduML (or whatever XML DTD you like) there and avoid all
the MS stuff?  Once you start translating from a native data format to
something else, you can pick whatever target you like.  And the MS
license doesn't meet the criteria for open source or free software in
that it's restricted to educational uses.  It's close, though.

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