RE: [seul-edu] Fw: yet another education project: it4school

["Jason Mellen" <jmellen@intellikey.com>]

It looks like it may have potential but the demo is too buggy to tell
anything more at this point. All I could do was log in as an admin and look
around.

I do like the Zope implementation. That will make it easy to build this into
existing systems like what I use at school.

jmellen

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Jason Mellen
Palm Bay High School
Webmaster / TSA Reporter / Television Producer


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of Douglas Loss
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 8:16 AM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: [seul-edu] Fw: yet another education project: it4school
>
>
> This arrived this morning.  I tried to run the demo on the
> website, but couldn't get into the system quickly.  Take a look
> and let us know what you think.
>
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, asd asfd wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:24:20 -0800
> > To: "seul" <majordomo@seul.org>
> > From: "asd asfd" <js9s@lycos.com>
> > CC: dloss@seul.org
> > Reply-To: js9s@lycos.com
> > Subject: yet another education project: it4school
> >
> >
> > Declaring the release of it4school-0.1 you can get it from <a
> > href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/it4school/";>
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/it4school</a>.
> >
> >
> > The system offers similar functionalities as many existing
> > projects, such as AUC, Roster, etc, but different in
> > implementation.
> >
> > 1. Scalable. It use OpenLDAP as central directory server,
> > teachers, students, admins, parents, etc. It use Zope as the
> > web publisher, and Postgres/MySQL as the database to store all
> > information.  The application is fully distributed.
> >
> > 2. Easily integrated:  The LDAP directory can be easily( in
> > relative sense) integreted with Novell NDS, MS2k active
> > directory, Lotus Directory server, etc. And mass import of any
> > data into LDAP or SQL database is a well-exercised drill.
> >
> > 3. This project has the whole school districts in mind, and
> > designed that the LDAP holds all the directory info, but each
> > school may have its own database for course schedules,
> > homeworks, announcement, etc.
> >
> > 4. Frequently updated:  because it uses many existing
> > OpenSource components which are constantly improving, instead
> > of writing everything from scratch,  it will benefit from
> > OpenSource revolution.
> >
> >
> > The project is hosted at <a href="http://www.it4school.org";>
> > http://www.it4school.org</a>
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> > J.
> >
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