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[Dan Horning]

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Dan Horning - Music, Technology & Photography 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of John Lacey
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 10:38 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Re: firepages
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Horning wrote:
> > on moodle?
> > 
> > 
> 
> yes, I have an e-learning idea or two that I want to 
> implement for Open Source software -- PHP being one of them
> 
> I am working with a couple community colleges and a 
> university here in the Denver area to get Open Source 
> training programs on their schedules, and after literally 
> years of trying, I've managed to get two colleges going with 
> PHP/MySQL, Linux/Apache, etc.
> 
> The next step is online learning.  I had one of the schools 
> apply for a free (not GPL) e-learning package that is only 
> licensed to educational institutions.  The reason I pushed 
> them to get it is it's written in PHP and uses MySQL and 
> other OSS software like Tomcat.  When all the darn paperwork 
> was finally approved and the school gave me a copy to work 
> with, after getting it running I decided I didn't want to 
> add features to it.  That e-learning code was initially 
> written around '97, and it was no doubt damn good at the 
> time.  Think of what PHP was like then and now.
> 
> so, I turned to moodle... it looks like an excellent project 
> to build on... 'nuff said
> 
> John
> 
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