So I've been looking around at some school timetabling solutions, particularly the Open Source solutions, and I'm wondering about a possible integration module with Drupal.
There is an Open Source school timetable scheduler called FET which has a very basic GUI that allows you to take a set of scheduling parameters, and it creates an output xml file with the school schedule inside it.
My thought is, can we create a Drupal module which will then allow a user to upload one of these xml output files, and create all of the events in the timetable, using each teacher, student, time-slot, and classroom as a taxonomy term, perhaps in different vocabularies to allow for easy searching of the events. It would be even cooler if the same module would automatically create an Organic group for each teacher with the student in their class showing up as members of their group.
First, how much interest is there in such a product? Has anyone started work on anything like this?
Second, is FET the right software to use? Whatever module we design is going to have to be able to read the xml file produced, so it will be very dependent on which software the user uses. Maybe we should create a module that allows for multiple different formats (even csv ugh!).
Third, is there a way to organize some developers for this?
Dave