[Smp-developers] Getting Things Moving Again

[Andreas M. W. <amw...@ya...>]

Greetings!

I know it's been a long time since anything has happened with the SMP 
Project.  And that's my fault.  I've completed my move (mostly, I still 
don't have most of my stuff) and classes are starting to finish up (finals 
are done on the 7th!).  So, I plan on getting things going again.  I'm 
settling in on a new computer system, so It might still be a while before I 
have everything back on here, but on the plus side it give me a windows 
(ick) machine to look at the results in (it dual boots).

I have also been asked to write once a month on the projects and my views 
for the Open Source Schools site (http://www.opensourceshools.com).  I've 
also been contacted by several projects on merging efforts and code.  After 
some serious consideration I have decided to keep SMP as a individual 
project.  Each of the other projects goals differs slightly from what I'm 
aiming for.  I hope that in the future we all have successful code 
bases.  One of the more useful e-mails I have received pointed me at the 
SIF web site (http://www.sifinfo.org) which is a standard for school 
interoperability.  I plan to review this site and do my best to make SMP 
meet it's standards.  Though at this point that may require a bit of 
redesign in the naming of the database fields.

Well, that's it for now.  I wanted to let you know what's going on and that 
things will actually start going on soon!

- AMW


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