Markus - a Free, Open Source Grades Application for Schools

Summary: Three or four years ago we found no suitable open source, free programs to produce transcripts, progress reports, and other reports for schools. After well over three thousand person-hours of development, we are now in production. This is a demonstration of the Markus school database program.

Overview

The primary purpose of this presentation is to explore an Open Source project for programmers, administrators, accountants, teachers, and others to get a better idea of what Open Source is.

• Background
• Markus Requirements
• Markus Design Strategies
• Markus for Users
• Markus for Administrators
• Freedom: as in Speech (libre) and as in Beer (gratis)
• Markus Support
• Future Directions