[consulting] seeking developer

[kwilinskik at gmail.com]

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My wife is an educational consultant and she wants to implement a Site for  
Teacher Networking, Resource Exchange, and Planning Tools. Her business  
website, which I created, runs in drupal 6. I would like her to have the  
site built within drupal because of some of my existing knowledge for  
ongoing support and such that I might learn from the final product.  
Implementing this site myself is beyond my capacity within a  
reasonable/definable time frame and with my work schedule. After reviewing  
the requirements, we would consider recommendations for non-drupal  
solutions if thought to be more appropriate.

She has drafted numerous requirement documents and mockups that I have  
compressed into a single zip file. The documents are in pdf format.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/387521/website_requirements.zip

She has a little knowledge of drupal, but her requirements are written from  
the perspective of someone basically unfamiliar with its range of  
capabilities other than the simple uses she has on her existing site which  
is mostly an advertisement for her business.

Beyond the much more thorough documentation found in the above link, here  
is a brief overview of the site:
A professional networking website for special education teachers in  
Michigan. The purpose of the site is to allow teachers to
(1) Share: Share uploaded and website created information (eg unit plans,  
assessment tools, research projects), recommend resources such as teaching  
materials and other websites, and quickly search and browse for relevant  
information and files on the site provided by other members. This is what  
she calls "Community File Cabinet" and "Teacher Recommended Resources" in  
her requirements.
(2) Discussion Board (The out of the box forums seem adequate)
(3) Unit Plan Builder: Application for special education teachers to build  
specific unit plans and assessment tools that correlate to each of their  
students ability vs mandated grade level content expectations. Unit plans  
could be be managed online, could be printed, and could be shared. I'm  
thinking this could be done with CCK and Views with jquery to improve the  
UI. Not sure if that's the best approach or if custom code would be  
necessary.
(4) Online Courses: Offer fee required courses (not necessarily curriculum  
rich web based training), but a means to define courses that allow  
assigning readings (books and links) and written assignments, collecting  
them by due dates, performing assessments, assigning grades, engaging in  
discussion (typical forum and possibly realtime), and listing course  
achievements on user's website profile.

We would like to obtain quotes for the time and cost of developing this  
site from potential candidates. Note, any custom development for the last  
item could be contributed back to the Drupal project and potentially some  
for the third item (depending on the scope of what is required vs  
leveraging existing capability).
Thanks,
Korey
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