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

[Jason Straw]

Yep, just a network latency timeout... happens somewhat frequently to us.

Jason

Tom Hoffman wrote:
> 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
>>>>>           
>>>>         
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Jason Straw
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