scottish members : glow

[russdev]

Any of our scottish members want to do a online conferance call and give me a demo of glow.

Russ

[russdev]

*.bump*

[Gatt]

Erm... whats "Glow"

/me=scottish member but in Manchester :?

[beeswax]

Glow
As far as I can recall, and I'm happy to be corrected on this, the Scottish education secretary wanted a nationwide digital network setting up. They put it out to tender and RM came up with the best solution, which from what I've read, is a bespoke version of Kaleidos. Everyone seems happy with the solution. Why can't we have that sort of joined up thinking south of the border?

[Halfmad]

We'll be using glow too but not until after the holidays, after that I'd happily set up something like that russdev..

only if I'm still working here though

[ZeroHour]

We are looking at glow. It seems scary bad and they wont answer our questions.

[somabc]

I went to some presentations on GLOW, it is basically a higher speed network combined with a nationwide Intranet, based off of sharepoint.

It includes Video Conferencing (repacked 3rd party software from marratech), and the ability to setup shared spaces, VLE, staff / student personal pages. They were running the servers from a datacentre outside Edinburgh I think. They were working on using single sign on with Shibboleth. They were also pushing it as them providing the infrastructure but the LA / schools will decide how much or little they use of the technology.

Glow | Information on the national schools intranet for Scotland

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