[K12OSN] Need software advice

[Sam Snow]

For SIS software I would suggest taking a good look at Open Admin 
- http://richtech.ca/openadmin/index.html .

There is a list of other open source SIS software at 
http://k12opensource.wikispaces.com/Student+Information+Systems+%28SIS%29 
and non-open source (and open source) at 
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Student_Information_Systems . Both 
of these are WIKIs, so feel free to add more information as you do your 
research.

The only linux based non-web based grade book that I know of is GradeL - 
http://gradel.sourceforge.net/ . It can be used with Online Grades, which 
is free software for posting grades online than can be used with several 
desktop (windows/mac) based grade book programs - see 
http://www.onlinegrades.org/ . I volunteer some time towards Online 
Grades.

Sam