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| clarkk | I just came accross SchoolTool while looking at Edubuntu and it couldn't have come at a better time | 01:18 |
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| clarkk | Much of our staff is very unhappy with our current SIS so I'm really looking forward to SchoolTool 2006 | 01:20 |
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| clarkk | will schooltool be capable of running district wide? (meaning multiple elementary, middle, and high schools) | 01:28 |
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| clarkk | well, I've got to get out of here. I'll be back for an answer or check the IRC logs | 01:42 |
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| hoffman | clarkk: You'd need to run an instance of SchoolTool for each school. | 02:55 |
| hoffman | Realistically, you're not going to want to try something that big all at once anyhow. | 02:55 |
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| clarkk | hoffman: thanks for the response | 03:07 |
| hoffman | Sure. | 03:07 |
| clarkk | of course we wouldn't try something like that all at once, but a disctrict wide solution would be best | 03:08 |
| hoffman | Our architecture should scale well. | 03:08 |
| hoffman | We just can't do everything at once. | 03:08 |
| clarkk | we're not a huge district. probably less than 3500 students | 03:08 |
| hoffman | Where are you? | 03:09 |
| clarkk | NW Montana | 03:09 |
| clarkk | USA | 03:09 |
| hoffman | I'm in Providence, RI. | 03:09 |
| clarkk | ah, RI has about the same population as MT :) | 03:09 |
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| th1a | There are that many people in Montana? | 03:10 |
| clarkk | supposedly | 03:10 |
| clarkk | anyway, if schooltool supported multiple locations (ie building, schools, etc) that would be great. mostly for reporting | 03:11 |
| th1a | There are various ways it could be done. | 03:12 |
| clarkk | we're likely not looking to move to something new until summer '07 realistically | 03:12 |
| th1a | Once we have a system that has worked in production a while, it is pretty likely that someone else will pay to scale it up a bit. | 03:13 |
| th1a | There are lots of countries around the world that want to move their public infrastructure off proprietary software. | 03:13 |
| th1a | And the expense of scaling up SchoolTool wouldn't be very great for a state or country. | 03:14 |
| th1a | It might be more than a small district wants to take on. | 03:15 |
| clarkk | what kinds of costs are we talking about? | 03:15 |
| clarkk | do you mean paying the devs or something else? | 03:17 |
| clarkk | oops, i was wrong. RI has about 100k more people than MT | 03:20 |
| th1a | Just more development. | 03:20 |
| th1a | Or we may end up doing it ourselves someday. Hard to say at this point. | 03:21 |
| clarkk | worst case I guess we can just combine reports from the separate schools which we used to do | 03:23 |
| th1a | Whatever happens it will be easier to deal with if you've got an open source system. | 03:24 |
| clarkk | yeah, i pretty much hate our SIS we have now | 03:24 |
| th1a | Which one? | 03:24 |
| clarkk | schoolmaster districts version | 03:24 |
| clarkk | they're a Washington company | 03:25 |
| th1a | It is hard to keep them straight, since the names are all so similar. | 03:25 |
| clarkk | yeah, schoolthis schoolthat | 03:26 |
| clarkk | how full-featured do you think this schooltool 2006 .0 release will be? | 03:32 |
| th1a | It will be a functional student information system. | 03:32 |
| th1a | It is hard to say how wide a range of schools will be able to use it out of the box. | 03:33 |
| clarkk | will it have everything in the Usage Scenarios described on the the site (ie high tech, low tech, no tech) | 03:34 |
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| th1a | clarkk: Not next year. | 04:58 |
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