Putting it all together

[thi <ttn@mingle.glug.org>]

Bruno Vernier writes:

 > p.s. The big picture is this: Each school or "educational setting"
 > would need a linux distribution and the vn (or whatever its name will
 > be) package and will be fully functional.  The vn package will
 > specify what other standard linux packages are needed for the
 > functions to work.  Anyone can contribute courseware, functions, or
 > converters to the vn package. It really should be able to do
 > everything for everyone if someone writes the appropriate functions
 > and if the co-requisite standard linux packages adhere to the
 > unix/free source philosophy. Likewise, it can interface with legacy
 > commercial systems given that someone sits down to write the
 > conversion functions.
 > 
 > p.s.s. VN is essentially a collection of transformation functions
 > like netpbm for graphic formats, but for educational management.
 > Other education projects like DrGeo are seen as standard Linux
 > packages from VN's point of view.  Insofar as DrGeo etc... produce
 > statistics, levels, assessment results, these can be integrated into
 > VN's EDUML databases.  Insofar as DrGeo etc... imports histories or
 > questions sets, these can be piped in from VN's EDUML databases.

sounds like a CORBA-type system.  why not use CORBA?  (please correct me
if i'm way off.)

thi