[Savannah-register-public] [task #4899] Submission of Gnu Eclectic Reader

[John Slayton]

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                 Summary: Submission of Gnu Eclectic Reader
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: juanslayton
            Submitted on: Sat 11/05/05 at 02:48
         Should Start On: Sat 11/05/05 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Tue 11/15/05 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Full Name:
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  Gnu Eclectic Reader

System Group Name:
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  greader

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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                                            4 November
Reading management programs have become a big thing in public schools.  One
commercial program in particular has come to dominate the field:  Accelerated
Read, by Renaissance Learning is used in over 50,000 schools by 400,000
educators.  Anyone familiar with the program should know what it means to
'milk the system.'  It is way past time to provide a free version of these
programs.

I started this project several years ago as a feasability demonstration.  The
program, Gnu Eclectic Reader, is written in C, using the ncurses library.  It
has been compiled with Slackware 10's version of gcc using -O2 optimization. 
It can be downloaded as greader.tar.gz from www.dialup4less.com/~juanslayton. 
Untar from / and the program binary goes into /usr/local/bin/.  The data files
go into /usr/local/com/reader/. The source file and README should show up in
/usr/local/share/doc/reader/.  Preliminary drafts of info pages should be
there as well.

The heart of these programs is a large collection of tests on specific
reading books.  In this set there are about 320 such tests at present, and
each one is a separate file.  This has advantages in terms of continuously
adding new tests, but also some huge, and rather obvious disadvantages.  One
of these is that it is totally impractical to put licensing information on
each of these very short files.  If necessary I can undertake to consolidate
these records into a single large file with GPL notice appended.

Aside from the standard libraries and ncurses, no dependencies are known to
me.  That may change, however, as I tackle the problem of printing out hard
copies of student records.  I'm not proficient enough to know what's going to
be involved there.  For now the existing code should be usable, but as alpha,
with at least one known fatal bug.








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