Re: [seul-edu] directory of educational apps on Linux

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <irmina@ctv.es>]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Michael Viron wrote:
> At 07:05 PM 09/13/2000 +0000, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> >> For the past week or so, Doug, Roman Malonowa, and I have been discussing
> >> the possibility of SEUL/edu "reclaiming" the Directory of Educational Apps
> >
> >Well, I've had a definetely good idea to ease and allow participation
> >of people in maintaining Web sites like Seul. 
> >Moreover this would an application suitable to be playable with
> >children to interest them in Web publishing.
> >
> >Moreover it's an idea easy to do and with unknown possibilities.
> >
> >The idea :
> >"
> >Email ---> Bot (---> Human reviewer ) ---> Webpage
> >
> >Ok, first forget all your ideas about "static" files comprising
> >HTML code. 
> 
> Actually, that would be ok up to a point.  It would be much better (since
> we have php / mysql installed) to have it pulled from a database (much like
> the General Education Online v2 page at http://wsdo.sao.uwf.edu/~geodev/ ),
> and the online form automatically stores the info in a temp table for
> review by the person responsible.
> 
> This allows the pages to latter be set up as separate pages--just by
> modifying the sql code a little bit--rather than having to re-write a program.

Python is easier to handle than sql+php. Python can store
persistent data without  required format. Zope could be useful too.
But using "raw" python seems to me the most straightforward
and simple solution.  Forms interface would be optional and we
have the email-based parameter-passing as the "low level" way
of communication among the parties. 

I don't know how many techies are in this list, but if there's
anyone, he can confirm that what I'm proposing is 
very easy to do. Besides, most of the times
lots of effort is spent in discussion about designing data or 
structure. This proposal reduces that discussion to the design
of HTML of web page. 


Regards/Saludos
Manolo
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