[Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility

[Smith, John]

I'll take a month off work and do it for 10k ;-)

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:


Could be. Probably there are lots of angles. If we’re talking about a few grand, then we could probably cobble it together between us one way or another.

Or we run a paid for service at the soon to expire xerte.net for individuals to pay for the software?

Or we appeal to users and crowd fund it?

Or we wait until there are enough people wanting to run it on 5.5  to scratch their itches and share the costs?

Or we get some sponsors like the elearning network? :)

Or we look for funding through the usual channels?

Lots of options. Depends whether we’re talking about £1k or £10k.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 16 October 2013 10:26
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility

Would e.g. the google summer of code be a valid option/opportunity?

Presumably : http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014

David.


On 16 Oct 2013, at 10:21, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:


> I can't see Microsoft sponsoring Xerte
Damn. I’ll cross them off the list then. ;-)


From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 16 October 2013 10:09
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility


On 16 Oct 2013, at 09:57, Mark Berthelemy <mberthelemy at wyversolutions.co.uk<mailto:mberthelemy at wyversolutions.co.uk>> wrote:



Just a thought…

When this issue came up with Moodle, Microsoft sponsored the development required for the db abstraction.

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57989



That sounds almost like they're using something like Propel [ see propelorm.org<http://propelorm.org/> ] whereby you define the database using XML and it generates a load of PHP code to do 'stuff'.
(Doctrine is equivalent afaik). This would probably require significant changes to the code base - i.e no embedded SQL, needing some sort of model/service layer and so on.

[Un]Fortunately Moodle is significantly larger in all metrics - I can't see Microsoft sponsoring Xerte :-/

David.


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