On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 12:55 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
I have changed the subject line as the content/context is different from the OP.
On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009, jitendra wrote:
At VJTI we now have a hihe end server( Xeon dual core , for use for the institute on FOSS platform Can someone volunteer to demo and give POC of FOSS for education.
- LAMP, drupal,moodle opneldap may be the minimum
[1] IMO, the above list is a good chunk of effort. I am assuming you are not just referring to the installation of the packages but also populating the application with relevant data sets of "mock" data.
The way I see it, the major effort in this PoC project is not in the installation of the applications but population of the data; in a logical way that an educational institution would appreciate.
- Self platform for authoring
Can you please give URL of whatever package you have in mind?
- ulteo, vbox or any other virtualization
Does the "volunteer" get to choose the virtualization tool? ulteo is quite different from VirtualBox and so forth.
- all scientific, educational applications
*all* is a vast list. Please narrow it down to specifics, especially when you are looking for this work to be done on a volunteer (gratis) basis. [1] applies here as well.
If POC is done, and cost effectiveness is established, the setup , building an intranet/internet website and maintainance can be proposed as a paid activity.
I would suggest that you allocate some budget for the PoC as well.
Authorities are open to such proposal.
Then it would be really nice to have the authorities to put the above requirements in in some official form e.g a "letter of interest" on their web site.
I second arun's idea. And by the way I don't find why instead of LAMP we don't use some thing which is much light for programmers, gives a lot of power and also does some thing productive really quickly. Talking of this ruby on rails or pylons is a good choice IMHO. It will give emence power with very simple programming. I am using pylons for a couple of months and find it really ausom for the kind of things we are talking here.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.