Jim, I have actually been doing some Drupal development for my company lately and am really impressed with what it can do and how easy it is to develop in once you get a good understanding of its hooks and API. I have not had a chance to dig into the site you listed but from reading what you are looking for I am pretty confident Drupal can do everything you need and with no development needed. A simple site to have teacher/student login, blogging, upload file capabilities and such would be fairly simple. I am sure a simple prototype could be setup on a local laptop/desktop fairly quick for your meeting. Let me know if I can be of any assistance -Simon <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jim Hutchinson <<a href="mailto:jim@ubuntu-rocks.org">jim@ubuntu-rocks.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> This could lead to a possible job but the probability at this point is low. However, I first need to collect some info. Our district adopted a canned program called SchoolFusion to host our website (<a href="http://www.weldre4.k12.co.us" target="_blank">http://www.weldre4.k12.co.us</a>). Some of us felt that we could have accomplished something similar for less buy contracting with someone locally to set this up using Drupal or something similar. Can anyone comment on how much work it would take to build a site like ours with similar functionality (students/teachers can also log in and upload files and assignments and we have rudimentary blogging tools, for example)? How much would it cost to contract someone to do that and then to retain them "on call" for any future upgrades, changes, bug fixes, etc? I don't know the cost for SchoolFusion but in our next meeting I hope to bring it up, and I want to be able to compare that with a local solution. Thanks. -- Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire) ---- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a> -- Ubuntu-us-co mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a> </blockquote></div>