[schooltool-dev] Fwd: Re: cando and schooltool

[Tom Hoffman]

Is this just timing out from network latency or something else?

--Tom


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dudley Butt <dudleygb at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: Re: cando and schooltool
To: Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com>


Hi Tom,

Perhaps a connectivity issue, I get the following:

svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/cando/branches/competency-model-refactoring-6'
svn: PROPFIND of '/cando/branches/competency-model-refactoring-6':
could not connect to server (https://svn.schooltool.org)

regards
dudley


On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Dudley Butt <dudleygb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Yup, I am still in South Africa, no longer working for Thawte though, I left last year December to pursue new meadows. I am currently on contract at Standard Bank of South Africa, doing J2EE systems here. Enjoying it all quite a bit. :)
>
> Thats excellent thank you for the assistance, I will give that a try. I see theres also a cando-2008/ ? I will try both and let u know..thanks again
>
> regards
> dudley
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dudley,
>>
>> Are you still in South Africa?
>>
>> Getting the CanDo source isn't actually that hard... I just forgot
>> where it was.  They've moved it a few times.  This'll get you the
>> active development branch.
>>
>> Just do (you need subversion):
>>
>> svn co https://svn.schooltool.org/cando/branches/competency-model-refactoring-6
>>
>> and then cd into the competency-model-refactoring-6 directory and do
>>
>> make ubuntu-environment
>> make run
>>
>> That should work.  Let me know if it doesn't.
>>
>> For further questions, I think cando at schooltool.org is the best place
>> to ask.  Also #schooltool on freenode.net IRC.
>>
>> --Tom
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Dudley Butt <dudleygb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Tom,
>> >
>> > Thank you for your response. Sounds like the best option for me right now,
>> > is to chat to one of the developers to see if i can get hold of an older
>> > version of schooltool and cando, or you say the development version should
>> > work?.....thats great. Can you please put me in touch with someone. Its
>> > weird how things come around though, I worked for Shuttleworths old
>> > company..Thawte, down in Cape Town, where it all started. I wasnt amongst
>> > the founding members but it was good to learn the history. He's done a lot
>> > for the open source community, hopefully he will spin some support for this
>> > project :) Its a great idea. And with a little tweaking I think schooltool
>> > can be adapted to most eductional organisations.
>> > Anyhow, thanx again for the pointers, look forward to getting something
>> > going. Appreciate it.
>> >
>> > regards
>> > dudley
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Dudley,
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Jeffrey Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >>> I stumbled on schooltool the other day, then I saw cando. Its really
>> >> >>> cando
>> >> >>> that makes schooltool cool :)
>> >> >>> After a little more research, I see you guys are collaborating and a
>> >> >>> new
>> >> >>> development stream is active for schooltool 2008. I would love the
>> >> >>> cando
>> >> >>> module though, its really got the functions I am looking for. I
>> >> >>> installed
>> >> >>> schooltool 2008 onto ubuntu hardy, but the cando dapper install guide
>> >> >>> isnt
>> >> >>> working. Seems the repo has moved. Please advise the best possible
>> >> >>> route
>> >> >>> so
>> >> >>> I can get a working copy of schooltool and cando? Even if its an older
>> >> >>> version, thats fine.
>> >>
>> >> I think we need a CanDo developer to answer that one.  It should be
>> >> fairly easy to get the current development code running, though.
>> >>
>> >> >>> I see schooltool beta is due for release in Oct 2008. Will cando now
>> >> >>> be
>> >> >>> included with schooltool, or the other way around?
>> >>
>> >> We haven't decided exactly how it is going to work.  Probably a CanDo
>> >> release will be available in April.  The immediate priority for
>> >> SchoolTool is getting our beta then 1.0 out, and the immediate
>> >> priority for CanDo is scaling up a multi-school production deployment,
>> >> pretty much right now, so packaging CanDo for external use will have
>> >> to wait a bit.
>> >>
>> >> --Tom
>> >
>> >
>