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I have a neat software solution for something. Is it kosher to discuss it here, or it would be considered just as another spamming attempt?
Try us. Are you selling to us? If yes then maybe not so great to do (however Squirrelinhell released hasteworm just recently and no one complained). If no, then idea sharing is good.
Say, that you have a school with about 100 teachers, 1000 students, 25 rooms ... Each having his/hers demands and constraints.
Now, you want an optimal schedule - who doesn't. For that I have a software to do it automatically. Not semi-automatically like everyone else.
I want to test it for the North America and Australia's primary and secondary schools on several real life examples. For free, of course.
I am looking for a principal or his assistant to try this together over Skype.
Heads up about the business side of this: selling to primary & secondary schools, esp outside of the US, is 8/10 difficult.
Specifically, even if the teachers are fully championing your solution, they do not wield any sort of purchasing authority (and sure as hell won't pay from their own wallet). Purchasing authority's incentive-structure does not align with "teacher happiness", "optimal schedule", or most things one would imagine being the mission of the school. It is, however, critical for them to control all sw used inside the school, and might actively discourage using non-approved vendors.
Whose job is it typically to create the schedule? Do those people have political power in schools?
If your marketing point is "better schedules", then yes, it is about the benefit for teachers and students, and no one important cares about that. However, if your marketing point is "easier to make schedules", suddenly the school administration has an incentive to care.
Pure economically driven decisions should win eventually.
For example we have once reduced the number of school buses from 4 to 3. 20% or 160 students come with a bus. That's 3 full buses or 4 not so full buses. It's important however, that every arriving student has a class right away. Otherwise he may want to come with a later bus, overcrowding it.
Just on time arriving of those students with just 3 buses was a logistical nightmare. But just a constrain for the digital evolution of the school schedule.
Another big saving is to eliminate the afternoon school shift. We have 2 such cases already evolved.
Only in the realm of spherical cows in vacuum.
Also known as "The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".