Add pygrader post.

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   (my [[h5config]] package)
 - dev-python/pgp-mime
   (my [[pgp-mime]] package)
+- dev-python/pygrader
+  (my [[pygrader]] package)
 - dev-python/pymodbus
   ([pymodbus](http://code.google.com/p/pymodbus/))
 - deb-python/pypid

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+[[!template id=gitrepo repo=pygrader]]
+
+The last two courses I've TAd at Drexel have been scientific computing
+courses where the students are writing code to solve homework
+problems.  When they're done, they email the homework to me, and I
+grade it and email them back their grade and comments.  I've played
+around with developing a few grading frameworks over the years (a few
+years back, one of the big intro courses kept the grades in an Excel
+file on a [Samba][] share, and I wrote a script to automatically sync
+local comma-separated-variable data with that spreadsheet.  Yuck :p),
+so I figured this was my change to polish up some old scripts into a
+sensible system to help me stay organized.  This system is pygrader.
+
+During the polishing phase, I was searching around looking for prior
+art ;), and found that Alex Heitzmann had already created [pygrade][],
+which is the name I under which I had originally developed my own
+project.  While they are both grade databases written in [[Python]],
+Alex's project focuses on providing a more integrated grading
+environment and sharing grading responsibilities among multiple
+graders.
+
+Pygrader don't support multiple graders (yet), and it doesn't spawn
+editors or GUIs to help you browse through submissions or assigning
+grades.  It does pull submissions from your email inbox (or from
+[procmail][]), automatically drop them into a
+`student/assignment/mail` mailbox, extract any [MIME][] attachments
+into the `student/assignment/` directory (without clobbers, with
+proper timestamps), and leave you to get to work (all via the
+`mailpipe` command).
+
+When you're done grading, pygrader can email (`email`) your grades and
+comments back to the students, signing or encrypting with [[pgp-mime]]
+if either party has configured a [[PGP]] key.  It can also email a
+tab-delimited table of grades to the professors to keep them up to
+speed.
+
+While you're grading, pygrader can search for ungraded assignments, or
+for grades that have not yet been sent to students (`todo`).  It can
+also check for resubmissions, where new submissions come in response
+to earlier grades.
+
+The `README` is posted on the [PyPI page][pypi].
+
+[Samba]: http://www.samba.org/
+[pygrade]: http://code.google.com/p/pygrade/
+[procmail]: http://www.procmail.org/
+[MIME]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
+[pypi]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pgp-mime/
+
+[[!tag tags/code]]
+[[!tag tags/linux]]
+[[!tag tags/programming]]
+[[!tag tags/pypi]]
+[[!tag tags/python]]