Re: developing an educational Plone distribution

Hi,

To go further in requirements analysis, it would be nice if we could think
of a proper infrastructure to manage research and research "elements" (e.g.
projects, graduate students ...) in universities.  Professors in
post-secondary institutions all have a number of research projects involving
groups of graduate students (sometimes undergrads).  It would be nice to be
able to think of those worlds as having a "research oriented" view in which
participants in individual research projects would have a common location to
communicate (forum, bibliography repository ...) and also an
"administrative" view in which all management activities (e.g. grants,
research reports ...) and artifacts (e.g. student presentations and official
academic artifacts such as term papers or even theses) linked to a research
project would be stored.  I can see tons of artifacts to store in such a
CMS.  Of course, we would have to define the level of granularity to which
we would want such a system to go to on the administrative side of things
(i.e. do we want students to store each version of their master's thesis in
the system?), but that's a nice problem to think about!

It would be nice if a professor had a little "kit" to give a new graduate
student, that kit obviously being an electronic account  which would readily
give the new student a whole environment in which to do his/her work.  I
believe such an environment, implemented in Plone, would be a very unifying
element in the educational community.





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