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Daniel Cook <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Schoolware
System name: schoolware
Type: non-GNU

Description:
schoolware is a project to develop a free and open-source alternative to the 
commercial software currently available for education. We are using the XP 
methodology, and thus are not starting out with a big up-front design as to 
what we want to do.
Instead we are in active communication with several technology staff members of 
various schools as to their requirements, which is then the direction in which 
we build our software.
We do have some code (see http://sf.net/projects/schoolware), as well as a wiki 
where much discussion goes on (see http://schoolware.sf.net), and a mailing 
list (see address@hidden).  The reason we are switching from sourceforge is 
that they are far too slow.
Right now the project implements a wiki text formatting, into something that 
very simply creates a page and stores it in a database.  However, we are 
scrapping the first iteration\'s code, so we \"officially\" have no code at the 
moment, and we will not be moving any of it over.
Therefore our project\'s goal is to match the needs of the education community 
by developing is whatever is most important at the time for them.
We do not, to our knowledge, use any non-free software of any sort, as the goal 
is to be standards-based, and to use Java for the programming language.  We are 
not tied to any particular webserver or RDBMS or other technology.

Other Software Required:
It does not depend on any external software, but it does need a J2EE server 
platform (JBoss, Resin, Tomcat, etc. all work just fine. Anything capable of 
deploying a .war), as well as an RDBMS of some sort, but it can be anything 
from hsqldb to MySQL to any other RDBMS that the deployer wishes.

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