Markus Schabel wrote:
These projects are not put up as apposing ideas, especially as one is not free,Andreas Schuldei wrote: <snip/>
16 groups, filesystems [..] Cerebrum, user management [..] user friendly interface, webmin [..] ilias [..] this is kurts favourit learning-management system, since it has heavy develpment teams and support behind it (like cerebrum, but better because it is germans doing it :-). there are however 50+ learning-management systems out there and we need an overview of what is good and what the best solution would be. Everone agreed that we do need a learing management system.
Maybe I have an idea ;)
We're a small team currently developing a communication platform for our school. It's based on PHP and supports LDAP and SQL user management and includes a lot of modules. For details see group-office on sf.net.
but could supply ideas for future development,
as it is specifically geared for the educational environment:-
http://axisgroupware.org/xoops/modules/news/
http://www.phpindex.com/news/news_lire.php3?element=2071
Regards,
David.

