Developer meeting November 2006
From Dokeos
The minutes for this meeting can be found here.
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Time and location
November 24th, 2006 2-5pm
building D, room 3.11
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Campus Etterbeek
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussel
Details about campus location and how to get there
Participants
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- Olivier Sourie (Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen)
- Liesbeth De Blaere (Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen)
- Bart Mollet (Hogeschool Gent)
- Jean-Marie Maes (Hogeschool Gent)
- Evie (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Frederik Questier (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Bruno Dooms (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Roel Neefs (Erasmushogeschool Brussel)
- Frederik Martens (Arteveldehogeschool Gent)
- Daniel Du Seuil (Arteveldehogeschool Gent)
- Patrick Cool (Ghent University)
Agenda
Dokeos 1.8
- Switch to PHP 5 as required/recommended? Dokeos company wants to develop php5-only scorm export tool.
- Sessions development: is the design ready? [1], [2]
Portfolio
This will be the first developer meeting discussing portfolio development. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is eager to start development and wants to discuss this with as many Dokeos members and developers as possible. There is a page describing a portfolio already, but we plan to release an updated project plan soon.
Users, roles, rights
In an informal meeting some time ago, several developers - decided to create a design that combined the two existing designs to bring the community together again. The technical work still needs to be done. By this meeting a first proposal should be ready.
Dokeos object repository
Proposal: we will switch to using a learning object repository as storage underneath Dokeos, after Dokeos 1.8. Basically, the goal is to have a centralized way of storing and handling learning objects. We already have partially complete Dokeos LCMS code, we can copy the new Dokeos 1.8 developments to there and change them to use the object repository as storage. This will be a serious effort for the whole team, we should take our time for this important and necessary change. There will be roughly two years between Dokeos 1.6 release and Dokeos 1.8, another two years can certainly bring us Dokeos-with-a-decent-storage-structure.
This includes the use of a database abstraction layer, Pear MDB2 is suggested (which replaces the deprecated Pear DB)
Required: an action plan
-- Evie
Reservations
Proposal: I recieve many demands for a Reservation tool : book a room, manage a teachers schedule in a school, book training devices etc. As far as I hear it, this looks generic : in schools, universities and public administrations. I have seen the HoGent Reservation tool and I propose to add this in Dokeos 1.8 instead of only as an extension.
-- thomas
Extensions
Proposal: Some institutions use a few extensions on every installation or in every course (eg. Assignments tool). It might be interesting for these to be integrated into the main Dokeos code.
There has also been discussions in the past about having the extensions in CVS/SVN, but there was never a conclusion to this. Versioning, debugging and administration of these extensions would be much easier if they were in a (separate) SVN.
-- frmartens
- About the assignments extension: we cannot add it right now, since we already have partially overlapping tools: Dropbox and Student publications. Someone should propose a clear design that reduces feature duplication. -- Evie
- A discussion thread has been created on the Forum about this. -- frmartens
- Extensions in general: apart from SVN maybe we also need to provide space on the wiki for the extensions... -- Evie
