Re: New Educational Plone poject in switzerland..

the ppt seems very useful for us

http://plone.at/Members/georg.pleger/eduplone-paderborn.pdf (in german)

however, we can't read german, is there any useful pointers for Plone +
education system?



"Jodok Batlogg" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> hi Patrick,
>
> first of all, thanks for your interest in plone and informing us about
your
> project.
>
> we are trying to concentrate the plone <-> elearning activities in the
> eduplone initiative. the initiative was founded last week at the
educaional
> sprint in paderborn.
> we plan to go public with our website next week. in meanwhile some
> information:
>
> eduplone consists of several plone companies, specialised in different
areas
> (bluedynamics GmbH, jensquadrat, Opensource.Agentur, solution2u.net gmbh,
> tomcom GmbH, ZopeWorks NL). the initiative is led by Georg Pleger
> (OpenSource.Agentur) and Jodok Batlogg (solution2u.net gmbh).
>
> eduplone = plone + standards (IMS) + methodology
>
> - we'll provide products (plone customized for e-learning) and services
> (consulting, support, customization,...)
> - all of our products will be GPLed
>
> you can download a few slides here:
> http://plone.at/Members/georg.pleger/eduplone-paderborn.pdf (in german)
>
> but back to your initial questions:
>
> Patrick Gelin wrote:
>
> > My name is Patrick Gelin
> > (mailto:[email protected]) and I'm the project
> > leader for an educational WEB portal prototype using Plone technologie.
> >
> > The goal of our project is to build something like a C3MS (Community,
> > Content and Collaboration Management Systems) for about 25000 students
> > and 3000 teachers. Smallest students are about 6 years old and Highest
> > are 18 years old. All actors are moving a lot (working both at school
> > and at home). Computers installed in classrooms are not Personal
> > Computer but WorkStation shared between students.
>
> we have currently projects running for children at the age of 9 years
> (Tiroler Bildunsserver, Wiener Bildungsserver, Pädagogisches Institut
> Tirol), projects in colleges but also some universities and adult
education
> organisations that are using our solutions.
>
> > At this time we are at preliminary studies stage, we are writing a
> > document to express our needs (top-down methodology) and we are going to
> > build a prototype (bottom-up methodology).
>
> our network brings a lot of experience in running eduplone in such
> environments, we'd like to assist you in this process.
>
> > The goal of this prototype is to test open source technologies. We are
> > very interested in open source technologies because we want to be free
> > and to secure a lot of data for a long time. After some discussions we
> > made the choice of Zope / CMF / Plone technologies for the prototype. We
> > want to make rapid application development (Cf. Calendar).
> >
> > The needs of the prototype are:
> > 1.LDAP authentication and single sign-on
> - should work out of the box
>
> > 2.Only two profiles (Student, Teacher)
> - the group support in plone2.0 is powerful and allows it easily to create
> more groups later.
>
> > 3.1500 simultaneous connexions
> - the biggest plone instances run with much more users, it's just a
question
> of the backend-hardware
>
> > 4.Open source technologies
> - we do dedicated OS development
>
> > 5.Groupware (with the ability to create many privates user?s groups)
> - groupware is a wide field. some things are already integrated, some
things
> (like opengroupware.org integration) needs to be done.
>
> > 6.Optional: CMS functions for e-learning
> - i think there are already quite a lot of things available.
>
> > (The Zope server is going to be Linux RedHat 9.0, and the LDAP server
> > OpenLdap)
> that's fine.
>
> >
> > Calendar:
> > October 2003: Prototype will be operational
> > December 2003: Conclusion
> that's a quite small timeframe, details need to be negotiated.
>
>
> i live about 5 kilometers near the swiss-austria border, so let's have a
> talk on this if you are interested (you can find my contact below) :)
>
> cheers
>
> jodok
>
> -- 
> jodok batlogg
> solution2u.net gmbh . hof 4 . a-6861 alberschwende
> fon +43 5579 85777-65 . fax -77 . mobil +43 699 11841546
> http://solution2u.net/ . batlogg(at)solution2u(dot)net
>
> have a nice day
>
>
>
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