Dear all, I have found some important resources which could be useful in our schools. May it be for e-library, teaching, library or administration. These are very strong application and are successfully deployed around the world. We can use these softwares, make ourself very fimilair and demo and run hands On sessions during SFD. I request some volunteers to come forward and take this responsibility. This bit of demo will help us defend our SFD theme further.
1. *DSpace * DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. And with an ever-growing community of developers, committed to continuously expanding and improving the software, each DSpace installation benefits from the next. http://www.dspace.org/ 2. KOHA GSDL Integrated -- LIVE CDBrought to you by HealthNet Nepal. This is a customized Ubuntu LIVE CD having KOHA ILS , Greenstone Digital Library Software,DBWiz ,Sopac and wordpress pre-configured with the integration between the two. It also has mail server and client configured for the mail sending features of KOHA. sourceforge.net/projects/gsdlkohalive/ 3. *SchoolTool * SchoolTool is an open source, web based student information system designed for schools in the developing world, with strong support for translation, localization and automated deployment and updates via the Ubuntu Linux installer and package management system. The standard installation of SchoolTool includes: - Customizable student and teacher demographics and other personal data; - Contact management for teachers, students, and their guardians; - Teacher gradebooks; - Schoolwide assessment data collection and report card generation; - Class attendance and daily participation grades; - Calendars for the school, groups, individuals, and resource booking; - Tracking and management of student interventions. http://www.schooltool.org/ 4. *calibre * calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: - Library Management - E-book conversion - Syncing to e-book reader devices - Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form - Comprehensive e-book viewer - Content server for online access to your book collection http://calibre-ebook.com/ 5. *Moodle* Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company. If we can demonstrate all or some of these systems during our SFD, The impact we could put on the visitors would be great. Also if we can put linux School games like Tux math, Tux type, Super Tux, gcompris, etc. it would be great. ------------------- Prabin Gautam FOSS Nepal -- -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
