Spring Semester OCW

[Alex Leavitt]

It's spring, a new semester. Let's eat, drink, and get OCW off the
ground (finally).

When will you be back in town? Reply, and we'll organize a lunch,
dinner, something.

Alex

[Rich Jones]

Great idea!

I'll be back in town in ~2 days, dinner + hacking? Looks like
EduCommons release we were waiting for was delayed (bummer), but we
can try to get a server running up at my house anyway using the
previous version

Rich

[Tom Caswell]

Hi there. I hope you don't mind me lurking around... it's very cool to see an OCW being formed with students as the driving force. I just wanted to mention that if you are planning on using a Red-Hat or CentOS-based server, we can link you to an RPM install for eduCommons 3.1.1. That should simplify things for you quite a bit.

The eduCommons project has *finally* moved from Utah State University to the OCW Consortium, and we are back to work on development. We will have an engineering release (eduCommons 3.2.0-eng) up by February 6, and a final release (with migration support) for eduCommons 3.2.1-final by April 30. Thanks for your patience. Email me or post to the forums (cosl.usu.edu/forums) if you have questions.

Best,

Tom

PS - We are moving to educommons.com, but most of the documentation is still currently at cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons. If you get to the point where you want to contribute code or translations, please let me know. Thanks!

--
eduCommons Project Manager
OpenCourseWare Consortium
tomcaswell.com/blog

[Rich Jones]

Hey Tom, really appreciate the input.

Most of our technical problems in the past have come from EduCommons
dependencies not compiling or working properly or being the wrong
version, which was why I was looking forward to the next release which
would have packages (.debs please), but if you're saying there is
already an RPM then I think we'd much rather use that.

If the project has moved to the OCW Consortium.. does that mean you're
in Cambridge now?

Rich

[Tom Caswell]

Here is the link to the CentOS/RedHat eduCommons 3.1.1 RPM installer:
http://enpraxis.net/repos/centos/5/base/x86_64/

Tom

[Tom Caswell]

"If the project has moved to the OCW Consortium.. does that mean
you're
in Cambridge now?"

No, I'm currently at Utah State University. The eduCommons project is
pretty spread out, with development coming from various schools and
companies. The original core developers of eduCommons have formed a
spin off company (enPraxis.net) that offers eduCommons hosting,
training, consulting, etc. I am working with them and other interested
in joining in to continue eduCommons development. Here is info the
current and upcoming release: http://educommons.com/downloads/educommons.
We have an IRC channel set up at: #educommons and a dev site here:
http://educommons.com/dev

Let me know if you are interested in getting involved. It's a fun
project.

Tom

On Jan 9, 3:09 pm, "Rich Jones" <miser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Tom, really appreciate the input.
>
> Most of our technical problems in the past have come from EduCommons
> dependencies not compiling or working properly or being the wrong
> version, which was why I was looking forward to the next release which
> would have packages (.debs please), but if you're saying there is
> already an RPM then I think we'd much rather use that.
>
> If the project has moved to the OCW Consortium.. does that mean you're
> in Cambridge now?
>
> Rich
>

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tom Caswell <caswell....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there. I hope you don't mind me lurking around... it's very cool to see
> > an OCW being formed with students as the driving force. I just wanted to
> > mention that if you are planning on using a Red-Hat or CentOS-based server,
> > we can link you to an RPM install for eduCommons 3.1.1. That should simplify
> > things for you quite a bit.
>
> > The eduCommons project has *finally* moved from Utah State University to the
> > OCW Consortium, and we are back to work on development. We will have an
> > engineering release (eduCommons 3.2.0-eng) up by February 6, and a final
> > release (with migration support) for eduCommons 3.2.1-final by April 30.
> > Thanks for your patience. Email me or post to the forums
> > (cosl.usu.edu/forums) if you have questions.
>
> > Best,
>
> > Tom
>
> > PS - We are moving to educommons.com, but most of the documentation is still
> > currently at cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons. If you get to the point where
> > you want to contribute code or translations, please let me know. Thanks!
>

> > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Rich Jones <miser...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Great idea!
>
> >> I'll be back in town in ~2 days, dinner + hacking? Looks like
> >> EduCommons release we were waiting for was delayed (bummer), but we
> >> can try to get a server running up at my house anyway using the
> >> previous version
>
> >> Rich
>

> >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Alex Leavitt <alexleav...@gmail.com>

[Rich Jones]

Are there any 32-bit RPMs available? I was about to install.. then
realized this isn't a 64b server.

Also, looks like praxis demo is down.. hacked?

R

[Tom Caswell]

I think the demo site (demo.educommons.com) was taken down to repair it/move it. It should be back up soon. I don't think we have a 32 bit version of the rpm ready, but I'll check with the enPraxis engineers tomorrow. As long as you aren't using it on a production server, I'll mention that we are setting up a much easier install process using a buildout script for eduCommons. Keep in mind that we don't officially support the buildout, but it would save you from having to set up all the python libraries by hand. Here's the link: http://educommons.com/dev/wiki/eduCommonsDevelopmentGettingStarted. I'm interested in your feedback.

Thanks,

Tom