RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] SIMS. SCOMIS AND ALICE
Time, I think, to pop my head up above the parapet once more and shout "we have an open source school management system!". No, it's not quite finished, but as of this morning it has a fully functional electronic registration system that includes full reporting including graphing using jpgraph, messaging by school, year, class or pupil (such that the next person who takes a register including the pupil/class/year gets the message), full effort check/reporting system that will include assessment management as of the next exam session. Anyone who can put their head around the problems involved in those will realise we dealt with two of the big four. Number three, timetabling, is underway and number four, finance systems, will be resolved shortly with an adaptation of SQL-Ledger (http://www.sql-ledger.org). All web-based, running on Borland Intebase OE, PHP, Apache and Linux (2.2.x thru 2.4.19). And when I say running, I mean with real live users in a real live school (soon to be schools (well, one school and one Inclusion Centre)). Questions? For library systems, look no further than Koha (http://www.koha.org). For ScoMIS? I don't understand that one. Either you refer to the South West authorities support service or to the Superior Court Management Information System. We could sort the latter, although I don't see the application to schools (outside of some of the inner cities :-) ), but if you mean the former, I assume it's a political problem. Cheers Chris -----Original Message----- From: psutton To: Suse schools Sent: 12/4/02 6:02 PM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] SIMS. SCOMIS AND ALICE Hi Regarding killer school apps, what are the following SIMS and scomis, I know that ALICE is a library management application, I am not sure about the other two, it seems that if we had open source versions of the above, then we could really move forward in terms of getting open source into schools. However not being sure of what these are or what they do makes looking for or helping to develop alternatives difficult.. Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com
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Chris Puttick