Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Ministry of Education from Brazil is buying 90, 000 Debian GNU Linux computers

[Richard Smedley]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:02 +0000, Ben Hague wrote:
> For me as the admin for a RM school the single biggest problem is SIMS,
> the school management software. From what I can tell this is the best of
> a bad bunch, and barely even manages to be single-platform. The big
> problem with any open-source replacement is that the government requires
> massive amounts of data to be recorded, and occasionally returned to
> them. To determine what this is someone has to wade through stacks of
> legal documents and convert it into something meaningful, and that isn't
> something many people would do without getting large amounts of money in
> return. There is SchoolTool, but that still has some way to go.

Hello Ben,

There's a great Free Software MIS developed at Skegness Grammar School 
by Garry Saddington. He's looking for beta testers, so let me know if
you're interested, and I'll send you his e-mail address off-list.

The app is called ScholarPack, and is Zope/PostgreSQL-based. It imports
data from SIMS, and I think it can export too.

 - Richard

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