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[Ric_]

Somehow I doubt that Capita and Serco are going to be even slightly worried about scholarpack, their website is full of blankpages and there is no content in the products section.

 

Its not ready yet.

 

I was only answering the OP's question

 

I agree that it is a terrible website but the article I mention on OpenSourceSchools.org.uk does show that it is being used in anger in a couple of places.

[garrysaddington]

I was only answering the OP's question

 

I agree that it is a terrible website but the article I mention on OpenSourceSchools.org.uk does show that it is being used in anger in a couple of places.

 

I agree it is terrible, but I don't really have much time for advertisement. My time is spent developing ScholarPack. One of the members is correct that it is in use in a school as a direct replacement for proprietary systems. It does all the governement stuff, census, CTF etc. as well as electronic attendance,reporting, admin etc and is totally web based and uses all Open Source components.

I have just given up my teaching job to concentrate on getting ScholarPack ready for release this year, this includes refactoring much of the interface in Flex, with a Zope and Postgresql backend. At present it stands at about 100,000 lines of code and over 250 database tables. Expect a small stand at BETT 2010 (skint!! any sponsors?). If anyone needs any more info. or would like a demo or to trial it then you can reply here or contact me directly:

 

[email protected]

 

Sorry about the website it is rubbish!

 

Garry

[budgester]

So scholarpack is based on a load of open source software, is it going to be open source ?

 

If so can we help you with the website, and ancillary operations that go into making something like this successfull ?

[zag]

We use a custom flash/php MIS in our school but its written buy a guy who is commercially developing it. Its an excellent piece of software actually and has full Student Database/registration/profiles/Census functionality from an easy Flash web interface.

 

Doing profiles, grades and reports online from a web interface has been a massive improvement.

 

It just shows how bloated and poorly written Sims is really when one guy can write a piece of software like this in a year that is far better than anything capita has put out.

[garrysaddington]

So scholarpack is based on a load of open source software, is it going to be open source ?

 

 

 

 

If so can we help you with the website, and ancillary operations that go into making something like this successfull ?

 

In as much as the source will be open and the cost to schools will be £0 and schools will have the basic freedoms of free software.

 

Please contact me off list if you are still interested in helping out, and we can discuss things further.

Edited March 26, 2009 by garrysaddington

[penfold_99]

In as much as the source will be open and the cost to schools will be £0 and schools will have the basic freedoms of free software.

 

Please contact me off list if you are still interested in helping out, and we can discuss things further.

 

sounds like how drupal is run, you own the brand but the software is free.