NYCPHP Meetup

[Steve Manes]

Gary Mort wrote:
> The specific usage scenario I envision is to allow schools that follow 
> similiar philosophies[basically following an open source model to 
> organizing and running the school, where students are part of the 
> process not passive receivers of the process.  Two example of this would 
> be the Brooklyn Free School, http://www.brooklynfreeschool.org/ and my 
> childrens school, the Hudson Valley Sudbury School, 
> http://www.hudsonvalleyschool.org/] to share information and discuss 
> issues at both the student level and at the staff and assembly level.

I built something like this for PBS in the early 90s.  It was called 
Learning Link and it was a software network of 70+ PBS stations and 
schools.  What I did was leverage Usenet and INN by creating a hierarchy 
of private local and regional newsgroups that a site could subscribe to.