On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 19:22, Gareth Edmondson wrote:
Hi,
I usually lurk on this list, but I have just read a mail where Ian Lynch mentions School Tool. Our school uses SIMS.Net - and we have had tremendous bad luck with it since it was implemented several weeks ago.
Luck? That's generous :-)
Unfortunately, even though I am the Head of ICT, and the Network Infrastructure manager, I have no input into the admin side of things. Shame.
Maybe you are better out of it ;-)
My question is simple - does anyone here use School Tool, or has anyone managed to convince their SMT to adopt this open source installation? I could push all I want in my school, but unless it was able to import from SIMS, which is still used by our feeder primaries, I cannot see our school move.
To be honest, I have been far too busy with OpenOffice.org and the INGOT scheme to do much else FLOSS-wise. To me school admin packages are just databases, I can't see how they cause so many problems! Ok, time tabling software could be a bit complex but the basic data things should be just data files, surely. Why it takes Capita years to design a new version is beyond me but maybe I'm missing something. I don't really have the time or desire to get into school admin systems. -- Ian Lynch <ian.lynch@zmsl.com> ZMS Ltd