Phil Langton wrote:
Someone has mentioned that Digital Creations has taken on someone who is to implement a zope-based virtual learning environment tool kit.
Is this so? Any mailing lists or contacts or test areas?
You're probably referring to me. I haven't taken an active role in this area recently because of the time it takes to get married (January/February), change jobs (March/April), move across the country (April), and get settled in a new area. :-)
The zope-edu project was doing well for a while but we were unable to define the scope of the project. There are a lot of facets involved and everybody was approaching it with a very different perspective. And nobody knew the technology well enough: it's too easy to re-implement things in Zope that have already been done by others. A battle ensued over naming conventions (ZSchool? ZopeEdu? Something else?) and the mailing list eventually reached an activity level of zero.
Which IMHO was actually mainly due to the maillist server severely suffering from outage and millenium bugs, because before that I recall discussions were very much alive, and of a high quality.
We could start again with a new approach: a Wiki! Wikis work very well for initial designs. We could take the good posts from pi.slcc.edu and put them into the Wiki right away.
How many are still interested in this?
I was among one of the first to be active in the zope-edu list and I am still interested and even working on a product for course maintenance. I even sent Shane an immature snapshot, but had to reimplement the product because of nesting ZClasses (sigh). Moreover, I was changing jobs as well, which did not exactly help in getting things from the ground. So - yes I'm still interested Shane. Rik
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Rik Hoekstra wrote:
How many are still interested in this?
I was among one of the first to be active in the zope-edu list and I am still interested and even working on a product for course maintenance. I even sent Shane an immature snapshot, but had to reimplement the product because of nesting ZClasses (sigh). Moreover, I was changing jobs as well, which did not exactly help in getting things from the ground.
So - yes I'm still interested Shane.
I'm still very much interested in this. School's out in a week or so, and I plan to work hard this summer worked on developing Zope stuff to be used here at school. I would love to renew the discussions. -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ wilson@visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/
|-----Original Message----- |From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of |Timothy Wilson |Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:44 PM |To: Rik Hoekstra |Cc: Shane Hathaway; Phil Langton; zope@zope.org |Subject: Re: [Zope] Higher Education | | |On Fri, 26 May 2000, Rik Hoekstra wrote: | |> >How many are still interested in this? |> |> I was among one of the first to be active in the zope-edu list and I am |> still interested and even working on a product for course maintenance. I |> even sent Shane an immature snapshot, but had to reimplement the product |> because of nesting ZClasses (sigh). Moreover, I was changing |jobs as well, |> which did not exactly help in getting things from the ground. |> |> So - yes I'm still interested Shane. | |I'm still very much interested in this. School's out in a week or so, and I |plan to work hard this summer worked on developing Zope stuff to be used |here at school. I would love to renew the discussions. | |-Tim Where do i find out how to subscribe to the zope-edu list? It doesn't seem to be listed on http://www.zope.org/Resources/MailingLists tmia, ~c
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:33:20PM +0200, Rik Hoekstra wrote:
Phil Langton wrote:
Someone has mentioned that Digital Creations has taken on someone who is to implement a zope-based virtual learning environment tool kit.
Is this so? Any mailing lists or contacts or test areas?
You're probably referring to me. I haven't taken an active role in this area recently because of the time it takes to get married (January/February), change jobs (March/April), move across the country (April), and get settled in a new area. :-)
The zope-edu project was doing well for a while but we were unable to define the scope of the project. There are a lot of facets involved and everybody was approaching it with a very different perspective. And nobody knew the technology well enough: it's too easy to re-implement things in Zope that have already been done by others. A battle ensued over naming conventions (ZSchool? ZopeEdu? Something else?) and the mailing list eventually reached an activity level of zero.
Which IMHO was actually mainly due to the maillist server severely suffering from outage and millenium bugs, because before that I recall discussions were very much alive, and of a high quality.
The Zope-edu list is now available at the sourceforge site : http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=3093 Yes, there is almost zero activity and i have also recently a lot of work too. Maybe if there is enough interest, the project can rebirth. -- Serge Stinckwich -< ) Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) CNRS UPRESA 6072>GREYC>I3>SMILE /~\ http://debian.org/ Université de Caen>IUT de Caen>Campus 3>Dept Info (/ | http://zope.org/ http://www.iutc3.unicaen.fr/~stincs _|_/ http://zschool.org/
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