The project is a client-based open source application to manage donations for non-profits. We use MySQL and PHP. YWCA New Hampshire and Greater Manchester Big Brothers Big Sisters are the "clients". Only YWCA has time this semester to meet with the students.
Update on this -- sounds like Mihaela has a speaker, Donald Lobo (who's since contacted her for logistics) from the CiviCRM community. Lobo also made the following note, which struck me (and I asked him for permission to repost it here, and he agreed.)
Lobo: "I would strongly encourage you to consider using and building on an existing open source project rather than getting your students to develop a system from scratch and deploy it with a non-profit. This has quite a few issues with it, potentially. There are lots of things [in] drupal/civicrm that your students can build on and extend."
My first instinct is to agree with Lobo, but I'm coming to realize that not all faculty feel like they can go this route with their classes... and I'd like to better understand why. Is there not enough time in the semester to go into a project? Are there certain learning objectives that really don't work with open source participation?
Curious Mel! --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
