Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 22, 2012 @08:26PM from the what's-the-noodling-to-useful-ratio? dept.

WebMink writes "With an impending deadline for America's schools to satisfy new federal reporting requirements on academic achievement, a new alliance of state educators is creating a system of open source software to help schools gather and submit the data that the rules require. To get the whole thing started, the Gates Foundation and Carnegie are funding two $75,000 awards for the open source developers who create the in-school software. The winners could also become the linchpins of a new industry in academic software."

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Re:What software ?? by Gadget_Guy · 2012-09-22 21:12 · Score: 4, Interesting

Where did you find it on the website where they said it had to run on Windows? All I found was that it had to use the SLC API, which uses the Java SDK. In theory it should run on any platform.
I could be wrong though. I am current browsing on my iPhone, and it a pain to navigate the site in on the mobile.