On Sunday 31 December 2006 15:19, garry saddington wrote:
I have a set of goals for these. 1) get them to install with a Q&A routine from an RPM. this will help make them more accessable to to people that don't know any command line.
Why not make an easy to install Windows version just for testing by 'normal' teachers. Then for production recommend SuSE - not difficult to justify (security, stability etc.).
I can't think of a good reason to waste time with a windows anything. except maybe shades ;)
2) get them to share an LDAP directory ,
Not for the amount of data that needs to be held. Use an agreed upon central db like Postgres.
not looking to move the stored data anywhere until stage three , just looking to make a sharable demographics interface, if Centre was the main interface then Moodle and OpenBiblio could be configured to use Centre as their authentication and user repository , Yes? This would also allow each product to remain independent until stage three, Yes?
This is necessary to reduce data redundancy and inaccuracy, it would also bypass the need for a SIF (student information frameworks) agent which is soon to be a requirement in the states,
Doesn't surprise me.
( I think there is a similar requirement growing in the UK, possibly in the EU as well all though I don't follow there EDU regs.)
SIF is pointless stupidity geared at allowing commercial interests to continue to fatten themselves on education's meagre resources (and it costs for SIF as well!), apart from many other more technical pointlessnesses. If this was real business (and not education) I suspect that SIF would be a complete non-starter and even a laughing stock.
No argument here
3) blend them together into one interface. To create a Hybrid that would include the setup from the "Open School Server" , this last goal would set the stage for a commercial version that both Novell and the good folks at Extis.de could support.
It may be better to hang on for a while to see if any of the in development MIS software ever gets to the point that it can compete with the likes of SIMS by Capita (in England of course).
waiting isn't helping. Many schools are right now looking for a replacement for things like WInschool which isn't NCLB compliant and has already been decommissioned by Pearson. At least with a program like Centre we can make it meet the needs and maybe some regulations too. I have seen more than one thread on this idea. google search SIS+Moodle and you will see them, even a company selling the service of using Moodles API to sync data. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org