<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tom.hoffman@gmail.com">tom.hoffman@gmail.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid92de6c8804110719012843d4bd@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:00:22 -0500, norbert <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bear2bar@netscape.net"><bear2bar@netscape.net></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Does anyone know of a good schedulling & timetabling software for schools. OSS preferred but options will be considered. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Actually, we've got money budgeted to write (or otherwise integrate) open source scheduling and timetabling components for the SchoolTool project (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://schooltool.org">http://schooltool.org</a>). We've got some docs specifically related to timetabling here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.schooltool.org/bounties/timetabling/">http://www.schooltool.org/bounties/timetabling/</a> Right now we're kicking around the requirements, which is going a bit slowly because we don't have enough educators who actually do scheduling and timetabling involved in the conversation. We should have something written by spring. If you're in a hurry, there's also Tablix (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tablix.sourceforge.net">http://tablix.sourceforge.net</a>) and a couple others. The tricky part is that people tend to write these things to handle specific contexts, but doing timetabling that will flexible enough to work in a wide variety of schools without being very complex, is difficult. In an unrelated note, we'll be finishing a new version of SchoolTool's shared calendaring system in a few weeks, which will be complete enough to start testing in actual schools. We'll work with Eric to put together some RPM's that'll work with K12LTSP. Tom Hoffman Project Manager, SchoolTool _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> Hi Tom, We've installed K12LTSP in schools & training centres, however I have a requirement for a University department that is computer ILLITERATE !!! ....... they still transfer documents by printing them out .... mailing them via internal mail & typing them in at destination although they have an intranet !!! The department needs SW that will allow them to schedule courses and professors and locations with enough ease that they can make changes on the fly and make student/staff timetables available. Ideally I would see this as a web based application that can be shared, ie. when a class is updated the change is reflected on all the other schedules. If you want/need some guinea pigs please let me know also if there is something available as a demo I'm very interested. thanks Norbert A. Bedoucha CEO - XTlabs <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.xtlabs.org">www.xtlabs.org</a> </body> </html>