School Information Management for Teachers
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Proposers:
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T B Dinesh, Prashanth, Laxmi Devi

Proposers involvement in the Project:
Design and developement of the project, and
investigation of framework needs.

Pre-requisites to participate:
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Interest in backend technologies that help build a framework
to enable easy module creation, configuration and maintenance
from a browser front end.
Interest in working with teachers demands of local scools.
Interest in tamper proofing methods.

Project day would discuss the concept, framework needs,
design decisions, technologies considered, current
state of development and short and long term needs.

Audience:
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All interested in the project, and particularly those
with interest in software development.

Specifically invite people experienced with Javascipt,
database technogies, Python and RoR; in addition to 
people who have worked at school or have experience
using open source or proprietary school management software,
to participate and provide feedback, suggestions and 
technical inputs.

Handouts of tutorials and design documents will be distributed 
with pointers to svn, wiki and forums.

Proposed Schedule for the Day:
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Engagement1: 
School experience sharing, Concept introduction,
technology choices and state of general design of software.

Engagement2:
Discussion of other open source school software.
User interface ideas, teacher as administrator concept.

Engagement3:
Project design, with specific needs of the framework.
Discussion on datebase requirements and design.

Engagement4:
Security, Tamper proofing, Trust, Maintenance, Indic.

Engagement5:
Demos, testing, idea explorations, extension APIs.


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