developing an educational Plone distribution

I'm a high school teacher that is hoping to develop a Plone based CMS to make 
our staff communications and access to essential information more efficient.

It seems that educational institutions often have reasonably homogenous 
requirements for CMSs, while this requirements can be quite different from 
business of community CMSs. If we could get together we could develop a 
specialised form of Plone that educational instututions would more easily 
implement and use than generic Plone.

For instance, we all have a Calendar/Sylabus, timetables for staff, classes 
and students, class resources and discussions.  We have academic departments 
and I'm guessing we are not the only educational institute with tons of 
committees to manage everything else ...

A Plone already setup with templates for all of these things would make it 
much easier to 'sell' to the administration and would enable smaller 
educational institutes without a specialist intranet administrator to easily 
get things working.

It looks like there are a reasonable number of educational institutes using 
Zope, so we should be able to get something good together.

Richard 


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