Talk:School timetable
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The majority of the text of this article was written by me, Dr Tim Cooper, tco@smartsgroup.com . I personally have an Australian perspective, however from what I know of other countries, this material applies to most other (western?) countries except USA (as noted in the article).
My original article had a selection of external links to software companies, in addition to the Google directory and the PATAT conferences. Predictably, the list of software programs invited wikispam (one Indian guy made a clumsy attempt to delete everyone else's links and add his own). I've now inserted just 3 external links: 1 to the academic community, and 2 to directories of commercial software. The web sites of the various commercial software companies are useful sources for verifying the material in the article. Note: I'm a novice at Wikipedia.
I'd welcome further discussion on the details of the article. Tcotco 03:45, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
The article is good, but I guess adding the {{global}} tag is justified. However, I'll do it here, on the talk page: ... There is not even a hint anywhere in the text whether the author(s) had any particular country in mind when they wrote it. <KF> 23:26, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
This is now rectified. Tcotco (talk) 01:12, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- I've expanded descriptions in the terminology section for those terms I use regularly. Haven't heard yet of a "student body", "band" or "elective line". From my experience terminology is so different between regions that it's impractical to describe all meanings for all terms. Avian 02:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Peatar, I moved the list of open source projects to the (newly created and so far pretty empty) University timetable page. The reason was that I've never heard of a school using open source software to do timetabling. Admittedly, my experience is mainly from Australia. Do you know of any school (not university) that uses open-source software? Tcotco (talk) 11:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
