This year we're working more formally and more closely with just two schools to complete, test and deploy SchoolTool in the fall.  At both schools we've got signed agreements with the school leadership, and a commitment from an individual paid developer to work specifically with that school, on site and in person as much as is practical (with incentives to finish the job by October).  In terms of functionality, we're looking at the basic pieces we worked on in 2006: a core student information system plus calendaring and resource scheduling.

The two sites are:

• Vilnius Lyceum, an International Baccalaureate secondary school in Vilnius, Lithuania.  They are working with Ignas Mikalajūnas from Programmers of Vilnius.
• Lycée Emile Jacqmain, a secondary school in Brussels, Belgium, working with developer Jean-François Roche with additional support from Nicolas Pettiaux.

We are confident that we've got the foundation in code and organizational structures in place to have SchoolTool running in production in these two schools during 2007.  A firm toehold in reality to start pushing SchoolTool out to the wider world.

This is the main thrust of our funded work this year, but there are other interesting threads I'll describe in subsequent posts.