To answer Jade's question, this is our evolving plan:
- Overall, we are converting the current installation at Sloan(ACS 3.x based ACES) to the new OpenACS 4.5 based .LRN.
- We tried the straight PL/SQL route for a day as this had worked well for the WorldBank conversion. We found that there were enough datamodel and application-levl changes that porting the data directly from one schema to another would be challenging. We concluded that a better path was to write TCL scripts and take advantage of the TCL procedures to do the more complex steps things like creating dotlrn communities and classes and now are staying with that approach in general.
- We're currently doing the basics of ACS and dotlrn. Users, dotlrn users, dotlrn communities, dotlrn classes.....
- Also on our list - file storage, survey (once written), faq, bboard, calendar, news, spam
- On our list depending on difficultly - portals
