It seems to me that Zope could use a few more toolkits. The zope portal kit is in progress, with Zcatalog for indexing etc. I have read in the back archives that there is a Zcommerce project and another individual who has created a cybercash kit. It seems to me that a Zope Intranet kit would be a hole in this suite that could use filling. Squishdot could be the conferencing component. To this could be added an employee database using mysql (with photo,email,department,cube location, and phone info), A trouble reporting sytem for computer problems, and a bug tracking sytem for use by companies which produce software products....etc I think squishdot could be enhanced a bit and turn into a fine web-based project center for storing all items related to a project (think Notes) Any other ideas? Is their any interest in this?
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jeffrey Perry wrote:
It seems to me that Zope could use a few more toolkits.
As I've looked at Zope over the past few days and soliciting input from the list about uses for Zope in a school, I'm convinced that some sort of "school" product would be great. It may be that some of it is already there in other products, but what I would want is (and I'm sure to expose my naivete with respect to Zope programming here): * Instant, basic Web pages for teachers who would like to make their curricular material available for download. * A "what we did in class today" page for students who miss a day. Teachers would add each day's class activities through a simple Web form. * A simple way for student groups to share documents and collaborate on various types of projects. * A calendar showing due dates, upcoming events in the course, etc. * A discussion system for course topics. And the holy grail (as far as I'm concerned)... * An online electronic gradebook where teachers could enter grades, students could view (but not edit :-) their grades, parents could request electronic updates, etc. This would be AWESOME!! BTW, let me plug another group here. I've been involved with the education wing of the Simple End-User Linux (SEUL) group. We've got an active listserv discussing the use of Linux in educational settings. The homepage is at http://www.seul.org/edu/ Of particular interest is Bruno Vernier's work on EDUML, a subset of XML for working with data of interest to educational institutions. You'll see a link to it on the SEUL-EDU homepage. A connection between a Zope online gradebook and Bruno's EDUML would be a natural. Later, Tim -- Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ wilson@chem.umn.edu | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 08:51:28PM -0400, Jeffrey Perry wrote:
It seems to me that Zope could use a few more toolkits.
The zope portal kit is in progress, with Zcatalog for indexing etc. I have read in the back archives that there is a Zcommerce project and another individual who has created a cybercash kit.
It seems to me that a Zope Intranet kit would be a hole in this suite that could use filling. Squishdot could be the conferencing component. To this could be added an employee database using mysql (with photo,email,department,cube location, and phone info), A trouble reporting sytem for computer problems, and a bug tracking sytem for use by companies which produce software products....etc I think squishdot could be enhanced a bit and turn into a fine web-based project center for storing all items related to a project (think Notes)
Yes I definately agree with this. I am currently using an open source intranet solution called ocs (http://www.obsidian.co.za) I have found it really good, however it would be nice if I could move it over to zope so I don't need to use apache and Zserver. It seems to be written in perl but could be a good starting point. As for Zcommerce this would also be great, I am in the procress of looking for solution in this regard. I did come accross another open-source product called Minivend which seemed to be pretty good, although I haven't had time to thoroughlyu investiaget this. Just on a side note, I'm pretty new to Zope and this discussion list but shouldn't this discussion probably be in Zope-Dev?? Cheers, Benno
Any other ideas?
Is their any interest in this?
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At 08:51 PM 8/7/99 -0400, Jeffrey Perry wrote:
It seems to me that Zope could use a few more toolkits.
The zope portal kit is in progress, with Zcatalog for indexing etc. I have read in the back archives that there is a Zcommerce project and another individual who has created a cybercash kit.
It seems to me that a Zope Intranet kit would be a hole in this suite that could use filling. Squishdot could be the conferencing component. To this could be added an employee database using mysql (with photo,email,department,cube location, and phone info), A trouble reporting sytem for computer problems, and a bug tracking sytem for use by companies which produce software products....etc I think squishdot could be enhanced a bit and turn into a fine web-based project center for storing all items related to a project (think Notes)
Any other ideas?
Meeting and Project objects, which index their dates in a ZCatalog so that team-wide calendars can be displayed. Schedule objects, which belong to people, meeting rooms, A/V equipment, etc., to which Reservation objects can be added so long as they don't conflict. TimeRecords which can be added to Projects to track billable or other hours by users. 'Link' objects which combine a URL with a description and perhaps are also classified by Category objects, which can also be used to classify KnowledgeItems. Need I go further? :) Personally I would not put the user info in MySQL, but in the ZODB, and allow for feeding/updating ZODB data from external sources including LDAP. I would also like to create WorkflowRequests, WorkflowDefinitions, and a few other related items.
Is their any interest in this?
Yes. I hope to put some of the people on my team to work on some of this during this month. One of the big questions in my mind, however, is how much overlap this all will have with the ZPT, at least in the area of membership management.
Excellent ideas! Group scheduling was one which had already occured to me too. Jeffrey Perry
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jeffrey Perry wrote:
It seems to me that Zope could use a few more toolkits. I have read in the back archives that there is a Zcommerce project and another individual who has created a cybercash kit.
The only ECommerce project for Zope I found, was for Zope 1.x, and was described as an early alpha release. IOW, not a kit that one could download today, and use on a web site tomorrow. If I understood Zope, I'd be willing to code, alpha/beta test an ECommerce solution. << I have some unique needs for an ECommerce solution. >> Is there anybody else out there interested in a Zope ECommerce solution on a par with Selina Sol's web_store. << http://www.extropia.com >> or minivend? xan jonathon
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