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OLEFA web application suiteNote: I'm no longer involved in the development of OLEFA or AFELO since 2008. You may want to check out my new software projects CorneliOS, Morzino or oli.lu if you're looking for something new... OLEFA was 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. An OLEFA version optimized for education 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 company with Pino Fiermonte and Frank Trierweiler, and OLEFA became a commercial product. It was rapidly adopted by many schools in Luxembourg, and the software suite 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 I created 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 I designed the first 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) Open Source 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). I quit my job at EducDesign in 2008 as I wanted to base my future work on modern software designs and agile development techniques. The current OLEFA release is OLEFA 11, which is still not really different from OLEFA 7. The software didn't really evolve since 2008 and today OLEFA lacks all features you'd expect from a modern web 2.0 app. Unfortunately this looks more and more like a dead project to me. The successor of OLEFA is oli.lu, you may also want to check out the international version on Morzino. I finally found the time to set up a small website about the OLEFA History, please visit olefa.kirps.com for more information! |
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