Hi All,

Open Admin for Schools 2.40, a free web based school administration program built with free tools and released under the GPL is now available.

Hi All,

A new release of Open Admin is due shortly. It now includes a new Fees System to go along with the Transcript system of the 2.30 release (only a few weeks ago).

A new version of OA is now available that contains the new transcript system and rewritten teacher site with improved session management, etc. More rewritten scripts to support I18N, etc.

Announcing Tux Paint 0.9.17

New Breed Software Releases Update to Award-Winning Open Source Art Software for Children

(Davis, CA -- July 1, 2007) Five years after the debut of its award-winning Open Source drawing program for children, New Breed Software is happy to announce the release of Tux Paint 0.9.17.

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:59 -0600 [12:29:59 PM ICT]
From: Les Richardson
Subject: [school-discuss] Open Administration for Schools 2.25 released.

Hi All,

The latest version of Open Admin is now available for download at:

http://richtech.ca/openadmin

This version has lots of rewrites (100+) to extend multi-language support (i18n) to OA
(and we're not done yet...)

There is also a teacher focus in this release which includes major updates to teacher attendance entry, gradebook, daybook, report card mark entry for single user logons. (as well as other features... outlined below).

The next release will continue the teacher focus and should complete the rewrites of all teacher site scripts, updated interface, and some new features.

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:50:21 +0100 [Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:50:21 PM ICT]
From: Paul POULAIN
Subject: [Koha] Koha 2.2.8 has been released
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Koha 2.2.8 has been released & is available at :
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/koha/koha-2.2.8.tar.gz

Koha 2.2.8 is a bug fix only release.

RELEASE NOTES
=============

Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System.

Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo
Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it
is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from
around the globe.

As a member of the Centre web site , we're pleased to tell you that Centre v.2.9.1 has
been released. Centre v. 2.9.1 has some interesting new features and a pleasant list of
bugfixes.the new features are pretty cool. For example, at the request of several
schools, we have a way to configure a "delay" for teachers gradebooks, so ungraded
assignments won't appear as "zeros" on the Parents/Student view of the Gradebook.
Scheduling includes nice fixes to Printing Schedules and the ability to Print Class
pictures!

Please review the list of new features and changes to Centre in v.2.9.1. We recommend you
consider an upgrade to take advantage of these new features and bugfixes.

Hi All,

OA 2.20 is now available. It has a new transporation system with
additional fields for bus routes, dropoff and pickup times and
locations, etc. It includes a new daily bus supervisor report
including attendance data, etc. This is based on NYC requirements.

Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:30 -0700 [Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:44:30 AM ICT]
From: Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic dot net>

Subject: [school-discuss] Tux Paint 0.9.16 is here!


Tux Paint 0.9.16 is now available! Get source, RPMs for Red Hat or Fedora CORE
Linux, or versions for Windows or Mac from:
http://www.tuxpaint.org/

The press release is here, and links to the changelogs:
http://www.tuxpaint.org/latest/

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:49:21 -0700 [Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:49:21 PM ICT]
From: Justin Riddiough -- jriddiough at gmail dot com

"Moodle: E-Learning Course Development"

By Justin Riddiough
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Given the increasing popularity of learning management systems (LMS,)
specifically those available under open source licenses, there is a need for
reference materials and documentation which explain the technology and
answer questions to a very broad audience. The book being reviewed, "Moodle:
E-Learning Course Development," was written by William H. Rice IV as a
course development guide for Moodle. The book was published by PACKT
Publishing, and after taking a look at their website (
http://www.packtpub.com) and seeing that they do a lot of books covering
open source, I was curious to find out how their products are put together.
As I've been carrying this book back and forth from home to work and reading
parts of it here and there, it's held up extremely well, and I'm impressed
by the quality and durability of the book.