Re: [seul-edu] Site tools for Schoolforge

["Kevin Stiles" <kstiles@pasco.wednet.edu>]

Agreed, perhaps I was not as clear as intended :-)

I just wanted to remind the group tht many of the potential converts to 
the cause may have difficulty changing their architecture just because 
there is a new thing to try.  If these tools can run on existing servers 
and prove their worth it will give additional chances to make other 
changes.

As far as what is used for SchoolForge and this group's 
development/management systems, that should be up to the individuals and 
teams that are directly involved in the operation aspects of it.  Just 
try to make it easy for others to mirror, expand upon or provide remote 
modules, etc. for it.  Who knows, if this takes off, you may not be able 
to meet the bandwidth requirements and need my 2 T-1's.  

Wouldn't that be nice?

ThanX!

Kevin Stiles
Pasco School District

----Push is the force exerted upon the door marked "Pull".----

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Loss <drloss@home.com>
Date: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:44 am
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Site tools for Schoolforge

> Kevin Stiles wrote:
> 
> > True that we should avoid using IIS as our default for SchoolForge.
> >
> > But that may not be the case for other schools looking at 
> joining the
> > project.  Many of the individuals who are taking a look at these
> > projects and may want to be involved or are just starting out 
> may not
> > have the option (at first) of changing existing infrastructure.
> > Products that utilize Pearl, PHP and MySQL are cross-platform in 
> nature> and with little or no work can be used on almost any OS or 
> webserver,> even win95/98.  That is the primary reason my stuff is 
> all done with
> > PHP and MySQL.
> >
> 
> You're talking about the educational application development, 
> right?  For
> people _using_ the Schoolforge site, there should be no need for 
> anythingother than a web browser, as David said.  For OSS software 
> being developed
> for school use you make a good point, but I don't think we'll 
> likely make
> cross-platform capacity a _requirement_.
> 
> --
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> 
> 
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