Funded work implementing SCORM (RTE) module for Drupal - renewed call for input / assistance

Hi all,

There's been some previous interest and discussion in a SCORM implementation for Drupal - Nine Lanterns now has a (very modestly) funded project that will need to have SCORM objects use the SCORM API to set and get data, so we are starting work on this now - if anyone else is working on this please get in contact and so we can avoid duplicate effort!

Thanks to jjkd for making a great start on the SCORM wiki docs previously.

My approach will be working backwards from the SCORM RTE - we don't need to open and import SCOs for this project, and can get away with manually creating the Organisations for now. The first milestone will be successfully loading up Claude Ostyn's Diagnostic SCO for SCORM runtime and prodding Drupal so it returns something nice.

I have had a very brief scan of the code in some existing php implementations, and haven't decided on a starting point. I've also contacted a vendor offering an off-the-shelf + consulting implementation of a commercial RTE engine and am in discussions about licensing - their business model seems to built around a large single fee to a closed source LMS vendor looking to upgrade LMS to SCORM, so the use case of open-source Drupal needs some work. I'll keep negotiating and see what outcome can be achieved that works with GPL.

I'd love to have a 1.2/2004 support with Javascript only, but pragmatically, without any outside assistance the limited budget of our project will mean the quickest and simplest solution will likely fly (even if it is a 1.2 + Java for now.)

Please sound off again if you are able to contribute, a couple of things which would be really useful:

• Someone who has maintained a Drupal module previously to co-maintain a planned SCORM module with me (My CVS commit access is pending, but would love to have a partner in crime so I don't have such a steep learning curve with releases and tagging Drupal style)
• People with previous SCORM/XSS debugging experience to test (even better if you have your own SCOs that you a very familiar with)
• Financial contributions, however minor, to help justify working on this until it is a great fully functional module! I know there are lots of education/training people using Drupal, and there are some very interesting related projects which could be mashed together to push Drupal further into the "Social LMS" territory (<- hmm drupalms.com already registered :)

Cheers!