Hey Veli-Matti, that all looks very promising. Has Avoin koulu a true Single Sign On system? Most people who talk about SSO mean a system where you can authenticate with the same credentials to every app - but what I mean is: One single login form that gives you access to all the apps without asking for a password everytime.
My second point: How do you use Zimba for storing and sharing files? Is there a demo username/pasword, so that I can login and have a look around? Thanks, Jörg Am Sonntag, den 24.01.2010, 22:50 +0200 schrieb Veli-Matti Lintu: > su, 2010-01-24 kello 16:30 +0100, Jörg Sawatzki kirjoitti: > > Hey folks, > > > > after talking to some people in #edubuntu on freenode, I thought it > > might be a good idea to share my thoughts and ideas with you on this > > mailinglist as well. > > > > First of all, my name is Jörg and I am freelancing as a software > > developer here in the Northwest of Germany. I mostly work for the > > regional media centre and the state's government to develop new ways to > > use the internet and new technologies in schools. A lot of schools here > > are running some proprietary portal server which is not only quite > > expensive but lacks a lot features and simply isn't "state of the art" > > anymore (check out www.iserv.eu if you speak German). > > > > I have written a short blueprint for a new open source project that I'd > > like to start and would like to ask you to review it and give me your > > thoughts, ideas and feedback: > > > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/edubuntu-portal-server > > Hello, > > Here in Finland there's a project called "Avoin koulu" (Open School) > that deals with some of the issues here. The goal is to provide a set of > ten features needed in schools. At first stage the features are provided > using existing open source tools packaged together. The project is done > in collaboration with COSS (The Finnish Centre for Open Source > Solutions) and three companies. > > Unfortunately the project pages are available only in Finnish: > * Demo site: http://avoinkoulu.tuote.fi/ > * Documentation site: http://avoinkoulu.coss.fi/ > * COSS: http://www.coss.fi/en > > The features are described here: > http://avoinkoulu.coss.fi/index.php/Tekniikka > > The list translated is: > > 1. Authentication server OpenLDAP / Fedora Directory Server > 2. Email (Zimbra) > 3. Calendar (Zimbra) > 4. Personal home directories + file sharing (Zimbra) > 5. Remote teaching + remote collaboration (Openmeetings) > 6. IM: Openfire with Jabber protocol > 7. Collaboration tool Elgg > 8. Backups > 9. Home page tool: Elgg/Moodle > 10. Print management: CUPS + Pykota > > The installation documents might be useful without mastering the finnish > language ;) > > http://avoinkoulu.coss.fi/index.php/Peruskympin_testipalvelimen_asennusdokumentit > > > I have not been involved in the project personally, but I can try to > help with the stuff. I'm currently working on some separate user > management issues that should make running also these tools easier: > > http://www.opinsys.fi/en/user-management-rethought > > > Veli-Matti > > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
