Re: List of Educative Software: Linuxsignpost + X

["Mark Trimble" <matrimble@gmail.com>]

I develop for and use an Open Source PHP/MySQL content management
system called PostNuke (http://community.postnuke.com/index.htm) and
its value-added distribution called OpenStar
(http://openstar.postnuke.com/). PostNuke possesses a rich development
API and an extensive library of application modules, blocks, and user
interfaces (called themes). I have been quite pleased with the
system's standards-based modular design, its security and its language
support. PostNuke supports LDAP authentication and I am in the early
stages of trying to provide web-based Skolelinux thin-client access
through my PostNuke portals.

I believe PostNuke would be a good choice as the basis for a
Skolelinux web portal and offer my help in building the site if this
system is of interest to the rest of the community.

Best Regards,

Mark

On 2/4/07, RalfGesellensetter <rgx@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Recently Knut, Josè and others announced a cooperation of Debian-Edu and
> LinEx. One chance I see here, is further improvement of the workstation
> profile, especially by adding more educative applications and
> usability.
>
> At the moment we have the Linuxsignpost project [1]. Its design is
> marvellous, but the project is kind of stalled. It uses a MySQL data
> base + some homebrewn PHP frontend.
>
> Additionally, we started a wiki table of free educative applications
> [2]. But this has proven quite uncomfortable, personally, I am
> convinced we need some relational database that can easily be extended.
>
> As my knowledge of PHP+MySQL is very basical, I'd go for a sqlite
> solution (OOo or knoda) - but maybe there is other people feeling the
> urge of such a project? I read, that GAMBAS II has got an interface for
> MySQL as well. Does the LinEx project use a database to collect
> informations about educational software?
>
> What is your suggestions? Is there anybody else interested in such a
> data base, maybe based on [1]?
>
> Thank you
> Regards
> Ralf
>
> [1] http://www.skolelinux.no/linux-signpost/showUserMenu.php
> [2] http://wiki.skolelinux.de/LernSoftware