[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Response from school staff regarding progress tracking

Mon Nov 9 20:31:46 UTC 2009

so do we have a team?

Sarah does the web design
Matt does the coding
Uwe (me) does the database stuff
Jordan buys the beer

just joking Jordan. I guess you would steer the requirements,
documentation and also testing as you have so many students and contacts
to teachers, right?

rgds,

uwe

Am Montag, den 09.11.2009, 15:10 -0500 schrieb Sarah Frisk:
> Matt (and everyone)
> 
> I might be able to help with the design part.  The following link is a  
> design mockup of my own website that I'm working on (please note that  
> the right hand column is unfinished).  If you would rather get someone  
> else, I have some web design contacts that I could get ahold of if you  
> would like.
> 
> -Sarah
> 
> 
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Matthew McSpadden wrote:
> 
> > I am quite familiar with PHP (a language frequently used to access  
> > MYSQL) and MYSQL. I also have several years of experience in web  
> > development. As you can probably see from the tux4kids websites  
> > (which I worked on) I can code, but my designing leaves something  
> > lacking. If someone had a design i'd be more than happy to  
> > contribute to making the forms or whatever is needed into something  
> > accessible through a browser.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > uwe wrote:
> >> Jordan and all
> >> my feeling would be that tuxtype and a progress measuring tool should
> >> come with a similar design. would you agree?
> >> to the other point: I think a database would be more efficient. with
> >> 5000 users you already get a lot of data (depending how granular you
> >> want to capture). and then making analysis on top of this is too much
> >> for xml I would say.
> >> I have lots of experience with mysql. so I would recommend to use  
> >> it -
> >> its easy, quickly installed and many already fot it one way or the
> >> other.
> >> rgds,
> >> uwe
> >> Am Montag, den 09.11.2009, 11:01 -0800 schrieb Jordan Erickson:
> >>> Hi Uwe,
> >>>
> >>> Uwe Geercken wrote:
> >>>> it is maybe a little bit early in the process, but would we have  
> >>>> access to a webdesigner resource? I can setup the webapplication  
> >>>> and also the database, if that is what we decide, but I am not so  
> >>>> good at
> >>>> webdesign. I can do it including e.g. CSS but it would really be  
> >>>> better to have a professional designer for that task.
> >>> Any awesome web designers out there (or someone who knows an  
> >>> awesome web
> >>> designer) want to handle this part? :)
> >>>
> >>>> the other question would be, if you foresee to use a database at  
> >>>> all for tuxtype or would you use plain
> >>>> textfiles?
> >>>>
> >>>> don't get me wrong, I don't want to take all in my hands. I love  
> >>>> to work in a team of people. I am just
> >>>> trying to get my mind clear of the overall system design. maybe  
> >>>> that still changes, but anyway I'd like
> >>>> to have an overview to see how things can be hooked together or  
> >>>> where the interfaces are.
> >>> Well, from my point of view I'm really not sure. I'd think XML  
> >>> would be
> >>> good, but I'm not sure how much it can scale compared to a DB (I'm
> >>> thinking at worst, you'd have a district "server" for all students  
> >>> of a
> >>> large family of schools, maybe ~5000 users? Is that too much for
> >>> text-based database?
> >>>
> >>> Community input?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>> Jordan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >>>>> Von: "Jordan Erickson" <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>
> >>>>> Gesendet: 07.11.09 05:47:27
> >>>>> An: uwe <uwe.geercken at web.de>
> >>>>> Betreff: Re: [Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Response from school staff  
> >>>>> regarding progress tracking
> >>>>
> >>>>> I can tell you're into data collection/intelligence. Very good  
> >>>>> method! =)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Jordan
> >>>>>
> >>>>> uwe wrote:
> >>>>>> hello everybody,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have printed out all the responses and will try to get them  
> >>>>>> into the
> >>>>>> document I am wrting up. I think it is a good idea to have the  
> >>>>>> different
> >>>>>> opinions or request in one place rather than scattered over  
> >>>>>> mails.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> is this ok for everybody?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> rgds,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> uwe
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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