OLEFA web application suite
OLEFA is a software project I started back in 2000. I was running several websites and needed a tool to manage them, furthermore I was looking for some wiki software and other interactive tools. Commercial Content Management Systems were too expensive and there was no Open Source CMS that could do what I was looking for back then, so I decided to start my own CMS project.
I was working as a teacher back then and I planned to create a new website for our school, so I added wiki and web based library management features to the concept. OLEFA was launched in mid 2001, the
www.roeserschool.lu school website was the first educational website in Luxembourg to offer wikis and collaborative tools that were really working, and we also had the first web based library management system in a school. Those concepts were later shamelessly copied by competitors.
In 2002 I co-founded the
Educdesign s.a. company with Pino Fiermonte and Frank Trierweiler, and OLEFA became a commercial product. I was rapidly adopted by many schools in Luxembourg, and the software palette was growing as more modules were added: Webbooks (online books), Storyboards (online comics) and Tiparlo (online language editor, inspired by the
TEO software).
In 2005 we introduced OLEFAdesk, a WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) based webOS that was purely based on HTML (which means that it did NOT require JavaScript, unlike the newer AJAX based web OSes like
CorneliOS) for example.
In 2006 we also added JAVA applets to the system, for example the OLEFA Sound Recorder (speech can recorded directly via the website) and the OLEFA Painter (paint images directly on the website), followed by the
AFELO image processing client in mid 2006. AFELO is a platform independent (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) freeware program that can be used to organize, resize and edit images on your computer and to upload them directly to a website (built-in FTP client).
Here are some interesting liks if you want to learn more about OLEFA and related projects:
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