Tom Hoffman
2007-01-04 06:38:35 UTC
Hi all,
I've been painfully quiet about planning for SchoolTool development in
2007, mostly because I wanted to be extra-sure this year that I had
done everything I could to make sure what I say is going to happen
will actually happen.
This year we're working more formally and more closely with just two
schools to complete, test and deploy SchoolTool in the fall. At both
schools we've got signed agreements with the school leadership, and a
commitment from an individual paid developer to work specifically with
that school, on site and in person as much as is practical (with
incentives to *finish* the job by October). In terms of
functionality, we're looking at the basic pieces we worked on in 2006:
a core student information system plus calendaring and resource
scheduling.
The two sites are:
Vilnius Lyceum, an International Baccalaureate secondary school in
Vilnius, Lithuania. They are working with Ignas Mikalaj?nas from
Programmers of Vilnius.
Lyc?e Emile Jacqmain, a secondary school in Brussels, Belgium, working
with developer Jean-Fran?ois Roche with additional support from
Nicolas Pettiaux.
We are confident that we've got the foundation in code and
organizational structures in place to have SchoolTool running in
production in these two schools during 2007. A firm toehold in
reality to start pushing SchoolTool out to the wider world.
This is the main thrust of our funded work this year, but there are
other interesting threads I'll describe in subsequent posts.
--Tom
I've been painfully quiet about planning for SchoolTool development in
2007, mostly because I wanted to be extra-sure this year that I had
done everything I could to make sure what I say is going to happen
will actually happen.
This year we're working more formally and more closely with just two
schools to complete, test and deploy SchoolTool in the fall. At both
schools we've got signed agreements with the school leadership, and a
commitment from an individual paid developer to work specifically with
that school, on site and in person as much as is practical (with
incentives to *finish* the job by October). In terms of
functionality, we're looking at the basic pieces we worked on in 2006:
a core student information system plus calendaring and resource
scheduling.
The two sites are:
Vilnius Lyceum, an International Baccalaureate secondary school in
Vilnius, Lithuania. They are working with Ignas Mikalaj?nas from
Programmers of Vilnius.
Lyc?e Emile Jacqmain, a secondary school in Brussels, Belgium, working
with developer Jean-Fran?ois Roche with additional support from
Nicolas Pettiaux.
We are confident that we've got the foundation in code and
organizational structures in place to have SchoolTool running in
production in these two schools during 2007. A firm toehold in
reality to start pushing SchoolTool out to the wider world.
This is the main thrust of our funded work this year, but there are
other interesting threads I'll describe in subsequent posts.
--Tom