Hi,
We (a smal group) have build a quite comprehensive (but
still far from perfect in our opinion) Zope based system in wich
teachers can offer websupport with their courses. It's a sort of content
management system for teachers. Students can also deliver content. There are
groupware fascilites and more. This is all realized in a rather large social
sciences faculty within a dutch university. We have a relative large,
happy, userbase but.......
It has been quite a struggle. Not the development sec but
'selling' Zope as a platform and facing competitors in the ,so called
weblearning world. Now we're facing a battle with Blackboard (I'm just
recovering from an attack by some idiots who want to rebuild the whole thing
with PHP, Dutch universities: never a dull moment.....).
What realy would help us (in defending our system and Zope) is
a list universities, schools etc. who are using Zope for
educational/scientific/content management purposes. I'm
monitoring/contributing to (not as much as some of you I'm
afraid) this list and I noticed that quite some activity on the
Zope front is happening in academic/scientefic/educational environments but
I never kept any taps.
So if you are using Zope in this sort of environment please
let me know. You can mail me direct: linde@fsw.leidenuniv.nl. If I have a
list I put it on Zope.org so that other people can use to defend their
(potential) Zope efforts to decisionmakers, a sort of academic/educational
showcase.
Henny van der Linde