[schooltool-dev] Fwd: Configuration issues for schools

[Tom Hoffman]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Tim Holy <tim.holy at gmail.com> wrote:

> So my current thoughts are:
> 1. The "simple" case (e.g., for an individual classroom for a teacher whose
> administration doesn't want to bite the bullet): try to come up with a
> sensible, easy-to-configure (no more than a spreadsheet and half an hour)
> system that involves a directory tree stored on the local harddrive. The
> only reason to even talk about this publicly is the hope that other projects
> (like GCompris, KDEEdu) might be able to use the same setup, so the teacher
> doesn't have to repeat the work many times.
>
> 2. The "sophisticated" case (e.g., for a school-wide installation supported
> by the administration): all the web-based doohickeys anyone could want :-).
>
> Obviously, these need to have some meat on the bones. I can start preparing
> a document on specifics, particularly #1, but I will need your help on #2.

Well, if you're interested in going ahead with #1, that would make
more clear what you need for #2.

--Tom