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steveshogren / overseer

An attendance tracking system
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Improve setup instructions and use local node binaries. #32

Closed schmave closed 7 years ago

schmave commented 7 years ago

Hi there! I work on the software that Philly Free School uses for managing some student records ("DemSchoolTools"). I want to see if it will be relatively easy to integrate Overseer into DemSchoolTools so that it can be used by the other schools that use DST. I'm thinking at this point that I'll modify Overseer to read student names from DemSchoolTools, and then run Overseer in an iframe or something so that the web stuff doesn't have to be changed much. Curious if you have any thoughts.

I got setup without too much trouble, but did run into a couple of stumbling blocks, which I have reported about here.

steveshogren commented 7 years ago

Hey, thanks for the PR!

Are you associated with one of the other free schools? I started this for the Philly Free School. It's obviously open and free for you to host and use at your school. If you'd like to use it for your school without hosting it I've got an AWS instance up and running and can easily setup a new account for your school.

If you have any questions I'm happy to help!

steveshogren commented 7 years ago

Hey sounds great. I'm floored someone else is out there making software for these schools who ALSO can get a clojure site up and running.

Honestly DemSchoolTools sounds way more sophisticated, so I'm not sure why you'd want overseer integrated, but I'm definitely happy to collaborate!

Do you host it and charge for hosting? Or install locally?

I'll get DST setup and poke around with it. I could likely modify overseer to read from a different schema for student records and classes.

schmave commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the prompt review! I'd like to talk more--could you send me an email at schmave@gmail.com?