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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