Open Educate CMS / News: Recent posts

The new home of the Open Education Software Foundation is at http://oeducate.org.Oeducate.org has a new tiki-wiki which includes a forum. All developers are urged to register and will be promoted to a moderator. For more details look in the developer forum. To sign up PM with a random password (please no sf.net passwords) and a user name. You must send it from your sourceforge account (to verify that you're a dev). You can change your password later. Like I said before do not give me a password you use just give me a password from a password generator and you can change your password on your own. ... read more

Open Educate is now going to its first phase of development as of today. Now that Open educate has received enough members. The Core Open Educate should be fully completed by no later than February.

If you are a developer please take the new developer survey in the developer forum.

If you are not a developer and would like to become one please email me and post in the job application thread.

The following Implementation proposal was written by Jose Maria Sala <jmsala>

Implementation proposal

The workflow of the application should start with the creation of an object that will act as a resource pool, and also will initialize the necessary classes and load required config parameters. This main object will only call the Controller class, be able to throw exceptions and simulate an autoload (similar to what java does) for the classes that are not registered. ... read more

The mailing lists have been set up. There is one for developers and one low-traffic one (no more than once every 1 or 2 weeks) for everyone else.

Open Educate is recruiting developers. If you know PHP or want to help in any way simply reply to this news article or post in the job application thread.

Extended Description:
This project is very simple yet has a lot of potential. Open Educate CMS is a CMS that can be used by various educational institutions. Open Educate CMS is customized by using various toolkits. Once the base platform is built, the community can submit various toolkits to extend the CMS. For example a high school would want different toolkits than a college or an elementary school. Examples of these tool kits would include (but not limited to) a forum toolkit, a news toolkit (the homepage toolkit), an attendance toolkit, and a calendar toolkit. Hopefully this will be a very successful project.... read more