gferrie

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   by gferrie 14y ago

   Thanks for this japhyr. Our project is proceeding on track and on budget and we are going to be piloting in elementary schools by April of this year. Our primary focus now is reporting and business intelligence which will not only produce e
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   by gferrie 14y ago

   Just to clarify our staff consists of myself (IT Director for the Saanich SD) - I am the project lead/sponsor for the district. The eight people include: project manager, product tester/quality assurance, stakeholder business analyst and 5
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   by gferrie 14y ago

   We are currently on budget and on track with our build. Incidentally when it comes to attempt to build an open source package to replace a commercial product this is not entirely correct. Before we began our build we did a complete analysis
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   by gferrie 14y ago

   another good point. Our district has gone through five, count them five, commercial student information systems because the company has either gone bankrupt, been bought out by a larger vendor or depreciated. We just get our data converted,
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   by gferrie 14y ago

   We will absolutely not be moving to a commercial vendor with this product. Right now we are creating a not-for-profit society which will be the vehicle to ensure this is maintained as a shared-service dedicated to support IT initiatives in
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   by gferrie 14y ago

   As our funding is completely from the school district we currently have the code on our internal Git. The code itself is based on the Education Community Source license primarily so we can keep the development relevant to British Columbia.
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   by gferrie 14y ago

   I am the Director of IT for the Saanich school district which has incubated this project. There is a lot to say about how we got here but this is a somewhat different project than most other open source student information systems (and all