Re: 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.

Yes, Plone is already a general platform. So we just need to add the
specialized objects/mini-framework needed for Education related
activities. his could be done easily (or some have already done it) using
the Archetypes technology.
But before that, could someone give pointers/guidelines for what an Edu
system should be/provide. There seems to be some standards but I don't
know them.
Also are people here wanting to do something ambituous or something simple ?

-- Kamon
Ingeniweb





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