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 !!