Hello, Let me introduce myself. My name is Elias Aarnio. I work 50% of my time for COSS, The Finnish Centre for Open Source solutions. The field of education is my responsibility. I also work in another education related project as an OSS specialist.
I have been following the discussion on the schooltool lists for a few weeks by now. I am not a programmer myself - more something of a really advanced user and a wannabe techie. I have been dealing with localization issues and some other tech stuff and done some administration. It has been interesting to read about the student data discussion. During the discussion I received a copy of a brand new Finnish XML definition on student data. It is quite comprehensive and it has been designed carefully to cover all different kinds of education from preschool to higher education. The definitions are designed to ensure interchangeability of data between the data systems of different educational institutions and administrative bodies. Now, I would like to ask would it be possible to include this definition into the data definition of Schooltool. I understand this would be a challenging task. On the other hand the needs and practises are relatively similar all over Europe and the trend is towards greater unity in things like this. What do you think about this? Sincerely, -- Elias Aarnio Education, Public Sector, Localization COSS - The Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions http://www.coss.fi Visiting address: Yliopistonkatu 12 a A, 3. krs., 20100 TURKU, FINLAND email: [email protected] GSM +358 40 8204614 _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
