Instead of this you can also pull official IIT-Punjab work towards open source , what I mean by saying this that from academic archiving server , Virtual Lib , ILS ,proxy , SSO other things are necessary for a college you can try to convince the IIT-Punjab to implement them using open source rater then by propriety software and this will be also beneficial for other student who get the experience.
Cheers, Gaurav Paliwal http://gaurav.tk http://twitter.com/gauravpaliwal On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ishan, > I suggest you also set up local package repositories on your lan as > well as have some way of sharing ubuntu cds and dvds and iso images so > that youngsters can easily install linux and required packages on > their systems. > > Regards, > Nalin > > On 8/8/09, Ishan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We are starting off afresh at our temporary campus at Ropar near > > Chandigarh. I am a big fan of open source and would like to make it a > > habit at our campus rather than an exception. Since we are starting > > afresh, there wouldn't be a big learning curve switching to open > > source technologies. Its better to inculcate good habits now rather > > than try to change from bad to good ones later. I have already built a > > site for IIT Punjab using Drupal located at www.iitpunjab.co.cc. I am > > also thinking of setting up an internal site for discussion and > > polling on various topics and also maybe for conducting elections. Ill > > also insist on debian/ubuntu on lab computers wherever possible and > > also an internal repo. Any other suggestions? > > > > > > > > > -- > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
