NYCPHP Meetup

[John Lacey]

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