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Looks like it's way more open source than the two "open source" school MIS systems I looked at, one had no code available, the other an old version dumped on gi

by mavhc 11y ago

Looks like it's way more open source than the two "open source" school MIS systems I looked at, one had no code available, the other an old version dumped on github, but not linked from their main page until you signed up.

morelikeborelax 11y ago
Could you link to them please as I work at an MIS company that moved from open to closed source and wondering if our old codebase is still out there. This project looks good, but it does remind me of the issues with management systems for public services. With the level of requests we deal with from school users that "need" features to satisfy management/governors/government it makes it very hard to do open source and be suitable.
- castell 11y ago
  You seem not to understand what open source means. Code released to the public under common free open source licenses mean someone can fork the code and put it on Github any time. If the company chooses to close source further development, then it's their unfortunate choice, nevertheless already released older open sourced code will stay open source.
  - morelikeborelax 11y ago
    Ahh, you misunderstood me. It was open source many years ago and that body of code doesn't seem to exist anywhere now. Things have long moved on from that period, but a few of us are just curious to see if the code is still around from that time or if our product is one mavhc was talking about (unlikely).
- mavhc 11y ago
  There's http://www.opensis.com/confirm http://www.opensis.com/confirm and https://www.openemis.org/ https://www.openemis.org/ although their commitment to the open source model seems lacking. OpenEMIS appears to be some well funded UNESCO project, but seems to have stalled, or gone in a new direction. OpenSIS has an out of date gitlab code dump, or a zip file for an english only later version. It's php, so the source is there, but not promising.

by mavhc 11y ago

morelikeborelax 11y ago

Could you link to them please as I work at an MIS company that moved from open to closed source and wondering if our old codebase is still out there. This project looks good, but it does remind me of the issues with management systems for public services. With the level of requests we deal with from school users that "need" features to satisfy management/governors/government it makes it very hard to do open source and be suitable.

castell 11y ago
You seem not to understand what open source means. Code released to the public under common free open source licenses mean someone can fork the code and put it on Github any time. If the company chooses to close source further development, then it's their unfortunate choice, nevertheless already released older open sourced code will stay open source.
- morelikeborelax 11y ago
  Ahh, you misunderstood me. It was open source many years ago and that body of code doesn't seem to exist anywhere now. Things have long moved on from that period, but a few of us are just curious to see if the code is still around from that time or if our product is one mavhc was talking about (unlikely).
mavhc 11y ago
There's http://www.opensis.com/confirm http://www.opensis.com/confirm and https://www.openemis.org/ https://www.openemis.org/ although their commitment to the open source model seems lacking. OpenEMIS appears to be some well funded UNESCO project, but seems to have stalled, or gone in a new direction. OpenSIS has an out of date gitlab code dump, or a zip file for an english only later version. It's php, so the source is there, but not promising.