CascadeLMS (was Re: ruby on rails example)

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Bruce D'Arcus<bdarcu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oddly enough, I recently found out some people in the CS department on
> my campus have been working on an in-house LMS. It's MIT licensed, and
> the code is available here (though they're contemplating moving it to
> something like google code or github):
>
> <https://svn.csi.muohio.edu/cscourseware/trunk/>

This has now been renamed CascadeLMS, and the repo moved to GitHub. More at:

<http://www.cascadelms.org/>

Bruce

[James Tauber]

Would it be worth porting some of this stuff to Django for inclusion
in pinax-lms?

Are the data models at least useful to borrow?

James

[Skylar Saveland]

Still plugging away with pinax on the on hand and moodle on the other hoping to cross the streams.  I haven't been able to look at the cascadeLMS stuff yet.  Still listening though :)

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Jun 15, 6:05 pm, James Tauber <jtau...@jtauber.com> wrote:
> Would it be worth porting some of this stuff to Django for inclusion  
> in pinax-lms?
>
> Are the data models at least useful to borrow?

I think so.

Obviously Rails and Django have a lot in common. I guess it's just a
question of maybe some minimal translation between the Cascade
monolithic approach into the pinax modular approach. For example,
Cascade "teams" aren't really needed given Pinax's tribe/group
support.

I'll try to spend more time assessing Cascade in depth, and maybe
blogging some of my thoughts and conclusions (with screenshots), which
that they might be of use to both projects. I just need to find time.

Bruce

PS - Mike is looking at integrating Wave support to replace his
current wiki and forum functionality.