FOSS for College #Infrastructure

Given a small interactive session in Manav Rachna University’s Firefox 4 release party on FOSS for College Infrastructure.

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1. FOSS for Academic Institutions Infrastructure By : Gaurav Paliwal Http://gauravpaliwal.com IRC Nick : gauravpaliwal
2. Why ?What ?How ?When ?
3. Why ?
4. Reason 1Save Resources Wastage : eResources resourceCenter.optimize(true)
5. Reason 2 Better Manageabilityauthentication.SSO(true)
6. Reason 3Go greenerpaperless++ ;
7. Reason 4 $$–
8. Reason 5Decrease the efforts manHours– ;
9. What ?
10. Solution 1Research Paper Repository DSpaceusers : IGNOU/IIT/IISc/MIT
11. Solution 2Off Campus Resource Sharing Utilize Resources to Fullest VPN/Squid
12. Solution 3 Single Sign OnEase of use for usersopenLDAP/Shibboleth
13. Solution 4 ILSKoha or NeGenLibUsers : DPL/IGNOU
14. Solution 5 LMS Moodle or Sakai orBhraspati <<BRAVERY REQUIRED>> Users : IIT-D
15. Solution 6.1 Scientific ComputingSLIM Server is okey okey
16. Solution 6.2 Scientific ComputingA great example of it can be seen in ANDC (Delhi University)
17. Solution 7General Administration Fedena http://projectfedena.org/
18. Solution 8Collaboration Platform Mahara http://mahara.org/
19. Solution 9Communication Platform Many.
20. Solution 10 CMSAgain Many.
21. Solution 11CoursewareMoodle/Sakai
22. Solution 12 HRMOrange is the color.
23. How ?
24. Solution Student + Faculty + Administrationhttp://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20091116/expressintelligententerprise05.shtml
25. When ?
26. SolutionWhen there is no Admin “FRICTION”
27. Questions !!