<h2>University of Mannheim Grants 2005.
</h2>The University of Mannheim is pleased to announce the offering a number of grants to those who provide substantial improvements to OpenACS and .LRN. We expect to award several projects in the next 3-6 month with 500 EUR to 5,000 EUR depending on their size.
<h2>Guidelines.</h2>
Proposals must be in the area of development, usability, performance/scalability, architecture or user interface. We also encourage developers, institutions and companies to seize the change to make available their work and efforts not yet published to cvs.openacs.org or to extend existing packages.
<h2>Deadlines.</h2>
The deadline for submitting the proposal is Saturday, 8th. October 2005.
Selected projects must start as soon as possible.
<h2>Proposal.</h2>
Please submit
- a summary
- a detailed description of the proposal
- the results/deliverables the OpenACS/.LRN community will expect to see
- why it should matter to OpenACS/.LRN
- Requirements and Design Specs
- the different phases of the project
- the project timeline
- the amount of work involved
- the persons and institutions involved
for each proposal to
mailto:mazloumi@uni-mannheim.de.
<h2>Who is Eligible.</h2>
Proposals may be submitted by individuals, teams, or companies. At least two years of membership in the OpenACS community is required. Also two years of OpenACS development experience or comparable references in OpenACS/.LRN projects is required.
<h2>What Licenses to Choose.</h2>
It is required that you choose either GPL, BSD (sans advertising) or LGPL for your project.
<h2>Selection.</h2>
The selection will be made by the University of Mannheim.
<h2>Questions.</h2>
Please do not hesitate to contact mailto:mazloumi@uni-mannheim.de for further questions.
<h2>Rules.</h2>
The following rules apply if not regulated individually in special cases.
- cvs.openacs.org must be used during the project (Guidelines).
- A webbased project management environment has to be used in order for contractor to review and follow the development process.
- Regular meetings and reports must take place and be documented with protocols/minutes.
- A documentation for end users and developers must be provided the deliverables. Technical documentations must comply with UML.
- The Engineering Standards must be followed.
- The packages must provide installation, unistallation and test scripts.
- Target database is PostgreSQL.
<h2>Some Ideas.
</h2>
Here some ideas submitted so far:
- Integration of WSDL Webservices into custom portlets
- Improvement of the User Interaction with .LRN
- Further extension of the Assessment Package
- Further extending the LORS-Pakages
- Efforts in the field of IMS Learning Design
- Extension of the Package Manager
- Integration with Translation Server and Babylon
- Integration and Improvement of the Webmail System in .LRN
- ...
