[opencms-dev] Advice please for an opencms stranger

[Mandy Honeyman]

Hello,

Intro: I am seriously considering trying to use OpenCms at the heart of a
virtual learning environment for a secondary school in England (M$, Capita
and RM rule the roost in this area). However, I have never used it before
(or any other cms for that matter). It appears that this has not been done
before. The education sector appears to be very conservative in its approach
to open source software, I would like to try to change this!

Questions:

1) Am I taking on more than I may be able to chew? Already I find myself
confused/or irritated by not being able to use the current Tomcat release
(5) without making changes to the configuration. (Clear step-by-step
instructions would be welcomed).

2) Might it be possible to find a developer who is interested in packaging a
solution for the education sector and working with me in doing this? Where
should I go to investigate this further (needs to be UK based)? I think
there is a real opportunity here....

As always, apologies for basic/naive questions from a newbie.

Thank you.
cheers
Mandy Honeyman
LVC Cambridgeshire.