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From: Bernard Peek on 4 Feb 2010 18:08
On 04/02/10 22:41, chris wrote:
> This is slightly on-topic as it includes discussion of OSS.
>
> I've just come back from our school's parent council meeting (a bit like
> a school board meeting) and turns out our local council are trying to
> 'persuade' schools to update their website using their 'preferred option'.
>
> The preferred option is Adobe Contribute(!). I have real concerns that
> we are being sold an over-priced lemon, where a fairly straight-forward
> CMS would suffice e.g. drupal or joomla. The thing that scared me most
> was a yearly, per seat, licencing cost for basic editing rights to an
> effing website.

Within the lifetime of the system it is likely that there will be whole
primary school classes editing the site as classroom projects. I don't
think that any software that has per-seat licensing is a viable option.


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Bernard Peek
From: Paul Rudin on 5 Feb 2010 02:40
chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> writes:

> This is slightly on-topic as it includes discussion of OSS.
>
> I've just come back from our school's parent council meeting (a bit
> like a school board meeting) and turns out our local council are
> trying to 'persuade' schools to update their website using their
> preferred option'.
>
> The preferred option is Adobe Contribute(!). I have real concerns that
> we are being sold an over-priced lemon, where a fairly
> straight-forward CMS would suffice e.g. drupal or joomla.

I've heard good things about moodle <http://moodle.org> which an open
source CMS specifically designed for schools. However I have no
experience of it myself.
From: chris on 5 Feb 2010 03:52
On 04/02/10 23:08, Bernard Peek wrote:
> On 04/02/10 22:41, chris wrote:
>> This is slightly on-topic as it includes discussion of OSS.
>>
>> I've just come back from our school's parent council meeting (a bit like
>> a school board meeting) and turns out our local council are trying to
>> 'persuade' schools to update their website using their 'preferred
>> option'.
>>
>> The preferred option is Adobe Contribute(!). I have real concerns that
>> we are being sold an over-priced lemon, where a fairly straight-forward
>> CMS would suffice e.g. drupal or joomla. The thing that scared me most
>> was a yearly, per seat, licencing cost for basic editing rights to an
>> effing website.
>
> Within the lifetime of the system it is likely that there will be whole
> primary school classes editing the site as classroom projects. I don't
> think that any software that has per-seat licensing is a viable option.
>

Totally agree. The head was talking about having 3 or 4 seats available
so that the kids would be able to work in groups. Sounds like the days
when I was at school and computers were expensive. :(

From: chris on 5 Feb 2010 03:55
On 05/02/10 07:40, Paul Rudin wrote:
> chris<ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is slightly on-topic as it includes discussion of OSS.
>>
>> I've just come back from our school's parent council meeting (a bit
>> like a school board meeting) and turns out our local council are
>> trying to 'persuade' schools to update their website using their
>> preferred option'.
>>
>> The preferred option is Adobe Contribute(!). I have real concerns that
>> we are being sold an over-priced lemon, where a fairly
>> straight-forward CMS would suffice e.g. drupal or joomla.
>
> I've heard good things about moodle<http://moodle.org> which an open
> source CMS specifically designed for schools. However I have no
> experience of it myself.

Thanks. I've looked at moodle and it looks really good, but I think it's
not quite what is needed here. It's mainly designed for coursework and
teaching aids. From what I've seen it's been well implemented in
secondary schools and Universities, but primary schools aren't quite the
target audience IMO.

What is needed here is a well managed website i.e. via a CMS.
From: Glyn Millington on 5 Feb 2010 04:02
Paul Rudin <paul.nospam(a)rudin.co.uk> writes:

> chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is slightly on-topic as it includes discussion of OSS.
>>
>> I've just come back from our school's parent council meeting (a bit
>> like a school board meeting) and turns out our local council are
>> trying to 'persuade' schools to update their website using their
>> preferred option'.
>>
>> The preferred option is Adobe Contribute(!). I have real concerns that
>> we are being sold an over-priced lemon, where a fairly
>> straight-forward CMS would suffice e.g. drupal or joomla.
>
> I've heard good things about moodle <http://moodle.org> which an open
> source CMS specifically designed for schools. However I have no
> experience of it myself.

Seconded! My son is trying to set up something similar in a British
school in Madrid and has taken the Moodle route. He seems pleased with
it.



Glyn
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