[seul-edu] Fw: it4school, another education project.

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

I know I posted substantially the same message a few days ago,
but Jay added a bit to it (as part of his request for a listing
on the SEUL/edu projects page) so I decided to repost it.  Karl,
could you look this over and add it to the projects page at your
discretion?  Thanks.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:01:32 -0800
> From: "asd asfd" <js9s@lycos.com>
> 
> 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 for
> 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 scheme.
> 
> The project is hosted at <a href="http://www.it4school.org";>
>  http://www.it4school.org</a> and sourceforge.  The detailed
> feature list is on the site.
> 
> To make Doug's life a little bit easier, I filled up this
> form:
> 
> $PROJECTNAME=it4school
> $PROJECTSTATUS=alpha, 0.1 released, 0.2 will be out in another
> 2 weeks or so.
> 
> $PROJECTDESCRIPTION=a system to bring the education processes
> to the web. It emphasis on the interactions among students,
> teachers, administrators, parents, etc., not on the course
> material itself.
> 
> $PROJECTURL=
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/it4school
> $PROJECTLEADER=Jay Sun
> $PROJECTLEADEREMAIL=contact@it4school.com
> 
> 
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
> 
> J.
> 
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