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Re: Another open source project ?
From: |
Dominique Broeglin |
Subject: |
Re: Another open source project ? |
Date: |
15 Jan 2002 15:36:22 +0100 |
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 11:50, Christian Selig wrote:
> Hello Dominique,
>
> we are always very happy to read about Free Software projects for
> schools. Especially missing (i.e. all over Germany) is a good, usable
> and *free* solution for school administration. I'm very occupied right
> now, but I guess some others will take a look at it. You should also
> search the web for other projects with the same goal, so that (if
> possible) you can merge and save yourself and others a lot of work, or
> at least create common data formats.
>
My initial search (about 1 year back) didn't give anything with all the
needs I had. I kept my eys open for emerging projects but I found
nothing since.
Does anyone know of a similar project ?
As for the data formats I use XML for communication (an SQL database
for persistence) so any conversion from/to another format should not
cost too much.
> I'd also like to urge you to speak of "Free Software" instead of "Open
> Source", because the former term is much more precise. You can take a
> look at http://www.fsfeurope.org/documents/whyfs.fr.html .
>
Yes, this was big mistake. The licence I use for the application is
GPL.
Cheers,
Dominique