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Thank you very much for giving this some of your attention.  Specific responses:

1)  I will look for an more recent package for Ubuntu.

2)  Any use by me of activity tags is purely from ignorance.  I need to study the documentation more.

3)  I thought I had indicated the room capacity in the room definition.  Again, ignorance on my part.

4)  I'll try your suggestion.

Thanks again.

Here is the file I've been playing with...  The first problem I see is that there are 40 students assigned to a period when the room maximum is 15.

Thanks for looking at my problem.

I'm very encouraged by the description of FET, and I think it can work for my problem, but my simple early testing is revealing my lack of skill with FET.  Let me first describe the general problem I want to solve, and I  hope someone can tell me if FET is appropriate and perhaps help me with an example or directions to define my input properly.

I'm running an activity for Boy Scouts (USA).  It is 3 days of Merit Badge (MB) instructions.  What I have is:

~1000 scouts/students
~50 different MBs (unique subjects)
~80 teachers (MB counselors)  Most of these teachers are capable of teaching multiple subjects
~100 rooms.  Most of the rooms/subjects have a student limit of 15.  A few are higher.
3 periods.  Thus each student can take up to 3 subjects
3 days

The students are not grouped in any way -- they each have their own schedule.

I'd like to have FET find the right teacher for each subject and assign up to each teach, room and time.

What do you think?  Can FET do this?  Do you have an example for me to review?

Problem I had thus far:  I created a small trial:  3 subjects, 3 teachers, 40 students, 3 rooms (15 max students).  FET created a schedule that violated the 15-student limit.  I'm obviously not stating that constraint properly, but I don't see where to apply/enforce the limit.

Thanks in advance,
Bill