# \[ANN\] FreeMIS 1.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freemis-1-0-released/53675>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freemis-1-0-released/53675 "2006-02-13T17:09:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertjames)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freemis-1-0-released/53675/1 "2006-02-13T17:09:26Z")

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FreeMIS is an open source management information system for schools,  
built  
with Ruby on Rails. I haven’t come across any other big open source  
projects using Rails so far - if nothing else, the availability of the  
source code might be useful for learners looking for ideas?

If anyone would be interested in helping to develop FreeMIS, please get  
in  
touch.

Details here:

[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum\_id=539444](http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=539444)

Source code here:

[http://www.freemis.net/svn/freemis/trunk](http://www.freemis.net/svn/freemis/trunk)

–  
Robert J.  
jonesieboy[at]google’s-mail-thing[dot]com

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**Author:** ![robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertjames)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freemis-1-0-released/53675/2 "2006-02-14T21:32:05Z")

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Hi Robert

> Details here:
> 
> [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum\_id=539444](http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=539444)

The two important links referenced in that page (\*.freemis.net) don’t  
work.

Would be interested to try out a demo or see some screenshots or some  
documentation. Especially about how easily the system can be  
internationalized.

Patrice

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**Author:** ![robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertjames)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freemis-1-0-released/53675/3 "2006-02-15T00:12:37Z")

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Hi Patrice. All the sites weem to be working - must have been a server  
glitch.

I18n is not something I’ve put any energy into, partly because of the  
lack  
of support for it in Rails (though Globalize Rails looks promising).  
The  
amount of text that would require translation is pretty small. If you  
are  
still interested after you’ve checked out the demo, please contact me!

Robert

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**Author:** ![robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertjames)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freemis-1-0-released/53675/4 "2006-02-15T08:48:58Z")

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Hi Keith. FreeMIS is described by Tom Hoffman from Schooltool as  
“Schooltool’s Ruby cousin”.

We talk to each other, but the two project are entirely independent of  
each  
other. FreeMIS has used some of Schooltool’s css styling and navigation  
layout - that’s the beauty of open source: a GPL project can use  
whatever it  
finds that’s useful from any other GPL project.

I was, at one point, considering joining the SchoolTool development  
team, but  
after spending a few weeks looking at Zope3 at the same time that I was  
learning Rails, I decided to stick with Rails and FreeMIS.

SchoolTool has enormous potential, and of course the backing of Mark  
Shuttleworth, so I would definitely recommend folk to check it out.

Robert

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**Author:** ![robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@robertjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertjames)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freemis-1-0-released/53675/5 "2006-02-15T03:13:39Z")

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Robert:

What is the relationship between SchoolTool and FreeMIS?

Thanks,

kd