Forum .LRN Q&A: E-LANE has been released !!!

Posted by Victor Guerra on 03/04/05 06:28 PM

Galileo University announces the release of the E-LANE Project , which is based in the last stable release of the .LRN plataform (dotlrn-2.1.1). Please feel free to download the tarball in E-LANE's public section . Its important to mention that for now E-LANE only provides support for postgresql.

The release includes by default the following packages (aditional packages compared the dotlrn release):
Learning Objects Managment System (LORS)
Assessment
Evaluation
User Tracking
Photo Album
Random Photo
Weblogger
Wimpy Point

The E-LANE Partners are currently working on:
Windows Installer for dotlrn-2.1.1 and e-lane.
Debian Package for dotlrn-2.1.1 and e-lane.
Knoppix CDs for e-lane.
Changes on the LORS package.
Assessment package.
New features regarding the Bug Tracker and the autosubmition of bugs into it.

I hope that this release might be usefull to you.

Regards,
Victor Guerra.

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Posted by Dave Bauer on 03/04/05 06:35 PM

Congratulations.

Is it possible the developers of the installers can create some documentation for their procedures? It would be great if we could also offer basic OpenACS intsalls in the same way.

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Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 03/04/05 06:59 PM

Just to be sure that everybody understands, this is the distro e-lane members are using, which has been tested and added some important packages for the project. It is not a fork of .LRN, it just the standard .LRN distro plus extra packages, and that we wanted to make it of public use.

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Posted by Victor Guerra on 03/04/05 07:35 PM

Hi Dave,

Of course, we are going to ask them for some documentation.
Actually if there is going to be an windows installer for dotlrn, i guess that its pretty much the same thing for the openacs installer, shouldnt be that hard to work on that one.

Regards,
Victor Guerra

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Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on 03/04/05 09:09 PM

Congratulations! Thanks for the clarification Roc.

Look forward to trying it out and seeing how you integrated all the additional packages.

Carl

P.S. Adding auto-submission of errors is a nice touch.

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Posted by Alfred Essa on 03/04/05 10:58 PM

Roc, way to roc!

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Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on 03/05/05 04:46 AM

Congratulations!!

It is great see Assessment running well using acs-content-repository from 5-1 not exclusively HEAD.

And the best: it is great see user-tracking live!!! I think lot of work was done and the package is a solid step to .LRN runs as competitive courseware (or maybe a LMS?).

Just two things only about e-lane distribution:

1. config.tcl contains:

# The hostname and address should be set to actual values.
set hostname [ns_info hostname]
#set address [ns_info address]
set address 10.0.2.184
#set address 174.14.0.104

it could be better if it was as config.tcl from OpenACS HEAD to prevent misunderstandings:

# The hostname and address should be set to actual values.
# setting the address to 0.0.0.0 means aolserver listens on all interfaces
set hostname [ns_info hostname]
#set address [ns_info address]
set address 0.0.0.0

2. apm-callback-procs.tcl from user-tracking contains:

# Escribo fichero de users.txt
exec "/bin/mkdir" ${dir}awstat
set touch [exec "/bin/touch" ${dir}awstat/userinfo.txt]

well, i try install user-tracking in my FreeBSD5.2.1 box and there is no touch at /bin/ only /usr/bin then package install results in error and did not mount user-package instance in site-map

For a while is just it. Now i got it running i want to try it hard (assessment and user-tracking).

Thanks

8: Re: E-LANE has been released !!! (response to 1)

Posted by Victor Guerra on 03/05/05 06:21 PM

Thank you for reporting the issue with the config.tcl,
It was my mistake... i uploaded the wrong tarball, i was testing in my laptop, sorry about it. =).

Your are rigth, that call back code does not work for FreeBSD, ill make the respective changes and commit them to HEAD.

Thank you for trying the E-LANE tarball. ;).

Regards,
Victor Guerra

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Posted by David Arroyo Menéndez on 03/09/05 12:24 PM

I'm interested in reading the user tracker documentation. Can I do it?

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Posted by David Ortega on 03/09/05 12:45 PM

Hi David,

You can read something about user-tracking in this thread:

http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=199775

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Posted by David Arroyo Menéndez on 03/09/05 05:19 PM

Thanks!!

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Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on 03/09/05 07:30 PM

Rocael, Victor, David

Are there E-lane partners working (or plan going to work) on some kind of synchronous aplication for e-lane distro like IM (enhancing the jabber package), chat or shared whiteboards?

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Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 03/09/05 07:46 PM

yes, we'll work on jabber, well basically use the code that is already there ... I would love to see application sharing in the future ...

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Posted by Victor Guerra on 03/10/05 05:50 PM

Its important to mention that E-LANE Project has not campatibility with Postgresql 8.0.
If you try to install E-LANE using Postgresql 8.0 your going to find some weird errors in the install process.
The supported postgresql versions are: 7.3.2, 7.3.3, and 7.3.4 and 7.4.x. *7.4.5 is the (recommended version)*.

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Posted by Victor Guerra on 04/28/05 06:37 PM

Galileo University has uploaded a new version of the E-LANE Project (version beta 7). Feel free to download it from http://e-lane.org/public/?folder_id=11650

New versions of Assessment and User Tracking have been included, as well, new functionality for forums ( better statistics and moving threads ).

The packages tsearch2-driver and search have been included in order to have full text search support. IMS-ent package has been added to the tarball just for reference.

Remember that e-lane has not compatibility with the new version of Postgresql ( v. 8.0).

Feel free to test this new release, anny comments or suggestions are welcome!

Regards,
Victor Guerra.