SchoolTool Beta Released
Nov 19th, 21:32 UTC
Open source student information system takes a step toward an April 2009 1.0 release. DURBANVILLE, South Africa--October 30, 2008--The international SchoolTool development team and the Shuttleworth Foundation are proud to announce the release of SchoolTool 1.0 beta, a web-based open source student information system and calendar server for primary and secondary schools around the world.
This beta release includes all the major components that will be included in the April 2009 release of SchoolTool 1.0: student demographics, attendance, gradebook, calendaring and reporting. Future releases adding competency tracking and disciplinary intervention management modules are being tested at partner schools now.
Schools, service providers, government agencies, vendors, hackers and other interested parties are invited to test and offer feedback and feature requests on SchoolTool in coming months, with the aim of readying production deployments in schools following the final release of SchoolTool 1.0. Calendaring and resource booking is a mature component and can be used by schools in production today.
SchoolTool is 100% free and open source software, built with the Python programming language and Zope 3 framework. It is fully translatable via the Rosetta service on Launchpad.net, with several languages already fully or partially available. SchoolTool is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. On Ubuntu Linux, schools can have a running SchoolTool server available for evaluation and testing after a two-step installation process.
For more information see http://schooltool.org
Contact: Tom Hoffman, SchoolTool Project Manager
hoffman@schooltool.org
00 1 401-785-3648
About the Shuttleworth Foundation:
The Shuttleworth Foundation is a South African organisation that invests in social, technical and policy innovation in the fields of education and technology. The Foundation works through active partnerships with local and international organisations.
The Shuttleworth Foundation is founded in an open philosophy that includes the promotion of open source, open standards and open information access with the belief that sharing stimulates change and broadens horizons. It is the further belief of the Shuttleworth Foundation that in an African context this open philosophy is key to progress and an enabler for education.
(Submitted by Tom Hoffman of SchoolTool)
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