Good news for the Groupware group and Drupal community!!
After to be approved the project VISIYES (eTutoring) by the EC DG Education, The consortium, in concrete the leader of the WP4 Development of the platform, NOVASOFT.es choose Drupal 5.0 as Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) for the project
../.. to summarise, Drupal provides a mechanism to:
- allow the team to share files (library),
- show events and milestones on a calendar,
- show summaries of project members and their roles,
- communicate using: forums, e-mail, IM, skype, podcasts, vodcasts, blogs
- create polls,
- share slideshows
already many of the tools the VISiYES toolkit may want to incorporate.
Actually VISiYES has the first prototype build on http://VISiYES.eu
The next steps is to
- Migrate to the final webhosting of the WP4 leader selecting the modules needed to manage the consortium and the project;
- Open a Discussion about the Learning, Training and Marketplace platform for Entrepreneurs and Micro-companies
- Concrete tasks and participation in the Kick-off of March in Delft
- Invite to all Entrepreneurs and Micro-companies to carry out a 2 weeks training and the evaluation report should be paid depending on the EU state.
This can be an opportunity to our group to propose ideas, modules, application to integrate in the Drupal groupware or Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) solution.
We will keep punctual posted in all collaborative and participative activities and raised opportunities to get funds.
Drupal towards a CWE to build and exploit a VISiYES on Net space to work, learn, trade and live entrepreneurs and micro-companies.