Good Lord, I take a day to fly across the country and all hell breaks loose...
On 3/17/06, Amy Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh my! So much to learn - and so publicly. > > Normally, it takes me at least a whole month before I get so much attention! > What the heck - might as well introduce myself now! Hey to the rest of you on > the list. I am Amy Stephen and am very interested in learning all about > SchoolTool! It looks like an awesome open source tool for school districts. > There is just nothing out there right now for SIS environments -- I see a lot > of course management systems, but this looks very promising for the boring > administrative stuff that, let's face it, you just have to have. Hi Amy, nice to meet you. > I have years and years in IT development. Have been working recently with > Joomla - it's hot - check it out if you need a fantastic Content Management > System for your schools. www.joomla.org > > I am from Nebraska (it's smack dab in the middle of the US.) > > I would be very interested in hearing about what is used to take the SIF and > transform it into a database (any XML to DDL expertise out there?) I believe > (?) I read SchoolTool has some level of SIF certification (man, that's not > cheap.) Well, as a matter of fact we haven't done anything with SIF (let alone pursue certification) yet, although I try to use it as a reference in setting up our data model. I have been talking to a lot of people about the need for an open source Zone Integration Server (that is, the need for FUNDING for one) to make SIF more accessible to open source developers. Particularly if we could get a ZIS (I'm assuming you already know something about SIF here...) and some SIF agents packaged with a Linux distribution like Edubuntu, so a schools could have a free turnkey SIF setup. I have also been wondering lately about the idea you mention, a SIF-enabled database that would serve as just a big repository for SIF related-data, but I'm not sure what purpose such a thing would actually serve ;-) --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
