We will be retiring our Blackboard system (an e-learning portal)
which offered users 'organizations'; basically a combination of
group sharing of documents and collaboration via email.
I can't begin to duplicate all of the functionality of this part
of Blackboard, but I figured if I could link our school's Box
cloud storage with our new Mailman v2 installation, that would go
a long ways to provide a similar service.
The idea is that for every Mailman list created, a new Box shared
folder would also be created and associated with that list. The
list owner and subscriber information would live in Mailman. A
nightly reconciliation job would maintain the
list-owner/folder-owner roster and subscriber list between the
two systems. Subscribers to the list would be granted, as a
whole, either reader or contributor access to the Box folder
(whatever the owner chooses). The list-owner would be able to do
things like put the associated Box folder's URL into the list's
message footer.
Box provides a RESTful API, so I think I just might be able to
pull this off.
My question is, is there anybody else already doing this or
something similar?
...BC
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