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Sociocorpus | GroupSense Online Groups GroupServer |
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notes on the evolving life of the socius online |
It took me about five minutes to be converted to Sage. The first four minutes were the time it took me to download, install and configure it. An extension to Firefox (it works in Mozilla), Sage creates a panel to the left of the browser that lists RSS feeds and the titles of recent items in them. Click a feed on the left and the browser displays recent items with intros. Click an item title and browse the entire item. Such a simple way to provide four levels of detail.
I have been hearing about SchoolTool more often, lately.
They have a big vision: "a common information systems platform for school administration from California to Calcutta, via Cape Town! We hope to provide a single tool that will be readily adapted to the specific regulatory requirements and practices of different countries and regions, but that retains enough common functionality to make a shared development effort worthwhile."
This makes sense to me as an ideal application for an Open Source approach. SchoolTool (like GroupServer) uses Zope and Python. It has a standards-based calendar module called SchoolBell.
Is anyone using SchoolTool in Aotearoa/NZ?
I have been happily using Gaim for some time. An alternative is Miranda. Both are multi-protocol. Both are GPL. Gaim runs on Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Miranda runs on Windows only. Both my kids happily use Gaim to chat with their MSIM friends.
Which do you prefer?
Which others should be compared with these?