The document summarizes the school's journey with open source software over the past 20+ years. It began in 1994 with a basic website hosted on Linux and has evolved to include open source solutions for backend services, learning management systems, content management systems, and more. The school has found that open source software is cost effective, reliable, and evolves continuously to meet its needs. Open source also provides strong community support. The future of the school's open source use looks promising as it continues blending open source and commercial solutions.
Gradwell offers secure email and website hosting packages for businesses. Their flexible hosting plans provide email boxes, web space, data transfer allowance and support for a monthly fee. Email hosting includes POP3/IMAP inboxes from 100 to 1000, and up to 20GB of storage. Website hosting provides up to 20GB of web space. Additional services include domain registration, email forwarding and SMTP outbound email.
OpenDesk makes the teacher to focus on learning. delivery with the use of re-usable computer application and content. The collection makes the teacher review and use educational software to match the design of understanding and performance.
1. Establish consistent baseline designs for sites, pages, web parts, styles and branding.
2. Maintain consistent site structures by programmatically provisioning new sites.
3. Manage sites through inherited SharePoint features and content types rather than copying traditional site templates.
4. Support standard security models and configurations.
DocFlow provides solutions for streamlining document management and workflows. It has developed applications that conform to Italian regulations for electronic document management. The system allows for registering, tracking, and archiving documents and includes features like digital signatures, scanning, and interoperability through XML. It provides a customizable workflow and document management system for organizations.
This document discusses distributed architectures in Drupal and options for scaling a Drupal site that is becoming too large for a single server. It outlines trends toward modular code and separating functionality into API modules. It also classifies different architectural options like all-in-one sites, shared functionality through services, and aggregating content. The key technologies mentioned are services, SPARQL, and caching processed data or remote blocks to get the benefits of shared resources with low latency.
The document discusses the impact of cloud computing on e-learning. It explains that cloud computing provides on-demand access to computing resources and services over the Internet. This allows e-learning platforms to be easily accessible, collaborative, inexpensive to store resources, and scalable. Some key benefits of using cloud computing for e-learning include lower upfront costs, built-in monitoring and analytics, and the ability to access learning materials from anywhere using an Internet connection. Due to these advantages, more educational organizations are moving their e-learning workloads to the cloud.
Gradwell offers secure email and website hosting packages for businesses. Their flexible hosting plans provide email boxes, web space, data transfer allowance and support for a monthly fee. Email hosting includes POP3/IMAP inboxes from 100 to 1000, and up to 20GB of storage. Website hosting provides up to 20GB of web space. Additional services include domain registration, email forwarding and SMTP outbound email.
OpenDesk makes the teacher to focus on learning. delivery with the use of re-usable computer application and content. The collection makes the teacher review and use educational software to match the design of understanding and performance.
1. Establish consistent baseline designs for sites, pages, web parts, styles and branding.
2. Maintain consistent site structures by programmatically provisioning new sites.
3. Manage sites through inherited SharePoint features and content types rather than copying traditional site templates.
4. Support standard security models and configurations.
DocFlow provides solutions for streamlining document management and workflows. It has developed applications that conform to Italian regulations for electronic document management. The system allows for registering, tracking, and archiving documents and includes features like digital signatures, scanning, and interoperability through XML. It provides a customizable workflow and document management system for organizations.
This document discusses distributed architectures in Drupal and options for scaling a Drupal site that is becoming too large for a single server. It outlines trends toward modular code and separating functionality into API modules. It also classifies different architectural options like all-in-one sites, shared functionality through services, and aggregating content. The key technologies mentioned are services, SPARQL, and caching processed data or remote blocks to get the benefits of shared resources with low latency.
The document discusses the impact of cloud computing on e-learning. It explains that cloud computing provides on-demand access to computing resources and services over the Internet. This allows e-learning platforms to be easily accessible, collaborative, inexpensive to store resources, and scalable. Some key benefits of using cloud computing for e-learning include lower upfront costs, built-in monitoring and analytics, and the ability to access learning materials from anywhere using an Internet connection. Due to these advantages, more educational organizations are moving their e-learning workloads to the cloud.
USG Web Tech Day 2017 - CMS Tunnel VisionEric Sembrat
This document discusses moving away from relying solely on a single content management system and instead adopting a "web ecosystem" approach using multiple platforms. It encourages evaluating each platform based on its purpose, flexibility, and required knowledge. The document also summarizes Georgia Tech's experience of initially relying heavily on Drupal but now adopting additional platforms like WordPress and Jekyll to better meet various needs. It emphasizes documenting experiences to share knowledge with the local web development community.
@mire presentation at the 2014 CGSpace partner meeting. The presentation lists a number of new features in the upcoming DSpace 5 release as well as a call for participation to DCAT, the DSpace Community Advisory Team.
The DSpace 5 features that are covered include:
- ORCID
- Sherpa Romeo
- The Mirage 2 responsive theme for the XML User Interface
Adiante Consultoría provides turn-key solutions for open source products like Moodle, eFront, and Chamilo. They specialize in e-learning, content management systems, and web portals built on Drupal. Their products include D-Campus, a Drupal-based tool for managing educational communities, and an upcoming product called D-News for publishing. They offer consulting, development, customization, deployment and support services for projects using their Drupal products.
SEMLIB Final Conference | Liberologico presentationSemLib Project
Liberologico is a software company founded in 1999 that develops cloud platforms and applications for cultural heritage and tourism. It has provided the integration between its dbSite content management system and the PUNDIT semantic annotation tool to the SEMLIB project. This integration allows for complete interaction between different content formats through standards like RDF, SKOS and OWL. It provides users with semantic annotation and search capabilities across digital cultural heritage collections.
The document provides a history and overview of the Domain Name System (DNS). It discusses how DNS was created to improve upon the early hosts file name resolution system and allow for easier navigation on the growing ARPAnet. It then explains how DNS works, with root servers at the top level that help resolve top-level domains like .com and direct queries further down the DNS hierarchy to second-level and subdomain servers. The document also summarizes the DNS resolution process that occurs when a user enters a domain name in their web browser.
For all of us with a network administrator background, David Sinn, Customer Solution Engineer at Cumulus Networks takes us on his journey from network admin to cloud admin and provides customer examples. In particular, you’ll hear some lively discussion around Linux bash configuration versus the CLI, with many applauding ifupdown2 for operational simplicity.
MPLS: Future Proofing Enterprise Networks for Long-Term SuccessReadWrite
MPLS is a technology that facilitates various network services by attaching short labels to data packets to identify how they should be handled by routers. It provides more efficient routing and support for quality of service compared to traditional TCP/IP networking. MPLS is important for businesses because it allows them to consolidate multiple network types and prioritize applications to improve performance. When selecting an MPLS provider, enterprises should consider the provider's network coverage, experience implementing MPLS, pricing structure, and long-term ability to support the network's evolution.
MPLS: Future Proofing Enterprise Networks for Long-Term SuccessReadWrite
Today’s network manager has a tough job. Why? There are any number of networking protocols to manage. Maintaining these different networks requires any number of operating procedures.
What to do? This report from IDC look at one solution that helps manage this intricate environment. It’s called multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), and it serves as a simplified way to transport multiple applications such as voice, video, and data.
Mpls Future Proofing Enterprise Networks For Long Term Success Wp101094Erik Ginalick
1) MPLS is a networking technique that facilitates efficient transport of different types of traffic like voice, video, and data over a single network. It provides simplified infrastructure, high scalability, availability, and security.
2) MPLS labels packets with short identifiers called labels which are used to route packets more efficiently compared to TCP/IP. This allows for traffic prioritization and quality of service.
3) For enterprises, MPLS enables converged wide area networking that reduces costs by decreasing the number of managed networks while improving flexibility, management, and application performance through traffic prioritization capabilities.
SharePoint In The Cloud: Evaluating Impact, Pros, And Cons - SharePoint Satur...Richard Harbridge
This document summarizes a presentation about evaluating SharePoint in the cloud. It discusses why organizations are moving SharePoint to the cloud, including lower upfront costs, pay-per-use models, and cloud providers leveraging scale. It also covers cloud models for SharePoint, such as Office 365, concerns around security, privacy and cost modeling in the cloud. The presentation evaluated key considerations around migrating SharePoint to cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon.
The document discusses how cloud services are impacting the work of Oracle technology experts. It notes that many database administrator and fusion middleware administrator roles will transition to cloud providers as more systems move to the cloud. It outlines a roadmap for technology experts that includes trialing cloud services, ongoing learning, and using hybrid cloud environments. It concludes that while some tasks will shift to cloud providers, technology experts still have opportunities consulting on cloud services, developing cloud software, and supporting hybrid environments that incorporate both cloud and on-premises systems.
The document discusses how cloud services are impacting the work of Oracle technology experts. It notes that many database administrator and fusion middleware administrator roles will transition to cloud providers as more systems move to the cloud. It outlines a roadmap for technology experts that includes trialing cloud services, ongoing learning, and adopting a hybrid approach using both on-premises and cloud systems. It concludes that while some tasks will shift to cloud providers, technology experts still have opportunities consulting on cloud services, developing cloud software, and supporting hybrid environments.
Data science holds tremendous potential for organizations to uncover new insights and drivers of revenue and profitability. Big Data has brought the promise of doing data science at scale to enterprises, however this promise also comes with challenges for data scientists to continuously learn and collaborate. Data Scientists have many tools at their disposal such as notebooks like Juypter and Apache Zeppelin & IDEs such as RStudio with languages like R, Python, Scala and frameworks like Apache Spark. Given all the choices how do you best collaborate to build your model and then work through the development lifecycle to deploy it from test into production ?
In this session learn the attributes of a modern data science platform that empowers data scientists to build models using all the data in their data lake and foster continuous learning and collaboration. We will show a demo of DSX with HDP with the focus on integration, security and model deployment and management.
Speakers:
Sriram Srinivasan, Senior Technical Staff Member, Analytics Platform Architect, IBM
Vikram Murali, Program Director, Data Science and Machine Learning, IBM
BPMN, BPEL, ESB or maybe Java? What should I use to implement my project?Guido Schmutz
Have you already asked yourself at the beginning of a SOA or Integration project about the technology you want to use? Is it feasible to implement the integration layer completely in Java or do modern integration platforms such as Oracle Service Bus or Oracle SOA Suite provide the benefits to get closer to the often proposed IT flexibility and agility?
A Generalized Label-Forwarding Architecture for the Future InternetAchim Friedland
This document proposes a generalized label-forwarding architecture called the Extended Label Stream Switching Architecture (ELSSA) for the future internet. It aims to address lessons learned from today's internet model, including improving privacy while minimizing network state, and allowing for built-in security, mobility, and quality of service capabilities. The proposed architecture uses "extended labels" that include packet counters and can identify flows to enable these functions while keeping a modular design that separates forwarding and routing.
Webinito Networks is a technology startup focused on digital library services, web services, and online branding services. They have 10 employees with 6 dedicated to DSpace development. Their DSpace team has over 3 years of experience implementing and customizing DSpace. They provide DSpace installation, customization, training, hosting, and documentation. They have successfully installed DSpace at 3 client sites and made improvements to the software.
This presentation provides an overview of New Zealand's managed learning environment (MLE). The MLE aims to develop an educationally relevant, open, modular, standards-based, and sustainable approach to digital tools and content for schools. Key components of the MLE include student management systems, learning management systems, eportfolios, reusable learning objects, and single sign-on identity management. The presentation outlines several work strands, including attendance management, system integration, online platforms, and eportfolios. It encourages participation and collaboration to improve the MLE for enhancing student learning.
Tara Prasad Panda is seeking a career opportunity with opportunities for growth. He has 2 years of experience in data warehousing and Informatica ETL development. Some of his responsibilities include requirement gathering, designing mappings, developing reusable transformation logic, testing, and migrating code to production environments. Currently he works as a Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. on a data masking project for Barclays Capital involving masking sensitive personal information from databases, files and message queues.
Enovation Solutions provides customization services for open source applications like DSpace. They summarized a DSpace customization project for the South Dublin County Council (SDCC) Learning Circle which included simplifying the submission process, standardizing author/keyword fields, adding a news/events system, and improving browsing and searching. Current projects mentioned include a digital learning object repository, a Fedora preservation system, a "dark archive" for historical images, and an open access portal.
The document discusses surveillance and its implications for privacy, security, and freedom. It notes the rise of surveillance technologies like webcams, phone cameras, traffic cameras, and more. It raises concerns about how easily surveillance is conducted and how this relates to issues like privacy, control, oppression, and censorship. It suggests people need to think carefully about the future of surveillance and how to ensure technologies support dignity, diversity and human rights.
The document discusses how to create user stories and develop websites using an agile methodology. It explains what user stories are, how they are developed through workshops, interviews and prototypes, and how they should follow INVEST and SMART principles. It also discusses related agile concepts like personas, story mapping, estimating effort and adapting to change. The overall process described is about collaborating with customers to develop working software through iterative user stories.
USG Web Tech Day 2017 - CMS Tunnel VisionEric Sembrat
This document discusses moving away from relying solely on a single content management system and instead adopting a "web ecosystem" approach using multiple platforms. It encourages evaluating each platform based on its purpose, flexibility, and required knowledge. The document also summarizes Georgia Tech's experience of initially relying heavily on Drupal but now adopting additional platforms like WordPress and Jekyll to better meet various needs. It emphasizes documenting experiences to share knowledge with the local web development community.
@mire presentation at the 2014 CGSpace partner meeting. The presentation lists a number of new features in the upcoming DSpace 5 release as well as a call for participation to DCAT, the DSpace Community Advisory Team.
The DSpace 5 features that are covered include:
- ORCID
- Sherpa Romeo
- The Mirage 2 responsive theme for the XML User Interface
Adiante Consultoría provides turn-key solutions for open source products like Moodle, eFront, and Chamilo. They specialize in e-learning, content management systems, and web portals built on Drupal. Their products include D-Campus, a Drupal-based tool for managing educational communities, and an upcoming product called D-News for publishing. They offer consulting, development, customization, deployment and support services for projects using their Drupal products.
SEMLIB Final Conference | Liberologico presentationSemLib Project
Liberologico is a software company founded in 1999 that develops cloud platforms and applications for cultural heritage and tourism. It has provided the integration between its dbSite content management system and the PUNDIT semantic annotation tool to the SEMLIB project. This integration allows for complete interaction between different content formats through standards like RDF, SKOS and OWL. It provides users with semantic annotation and search capabilities across digital cultural heritage collections.
The document provides a history and overview of the Domain Name System (DNS). It discusses how DNS was created to improve upon the early hosts file name resolution system and allow for easier navigation on the growing ARPAnet. It then explains how DNS works, with root servers at the top level that help resolve top-level domains like .com and direct queries further down the DNS hierarchy to second-level and subdomain servers. The document also summarizes the DNS resolution process that occurs when a user enters a domain name in their web browser.
For all of us with a network administrator background, David Sinn, Customer Solution Engineer at Cumulus Networks takes us on his journey from network admin to cloud admin and provides customer examples. In particular, you’ll hear some lively discussion around Linux bash configuration versus the CLI, with many applauding ifupdown2 for operational simplicity.
MPLS: Future Proofing Enterprise Networks for Long-Term SuccessReadWrite
MPLS is a technology that facilitates various network services by attaching short labels to data packets to identify how they should be handled by routers. It provides more efficient routing and support for quality of service compared to traditional TCP/IP networking. MPLS is important for businesses because it allows them to consolidate multiple network types and prioritize applications to improve performance. When selecting an MPLS provider, enterprises should consider the provider's network coverage, experience implementing MPLS, pricing structure, and long-term ability to support the network's evolution.
MPLS: Future Proofing Enterprise Networks for Long-Term SuccessReadWrite
Today’s network manager has a tough job. Why? There are any number of networking protocols to manage. Maintaining these different networks requires any number of operating procedures.
What to do? This report from IDC look at one solution that helps manage this intricate environment. It’s called multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), and it serves as a simplified way to transport multiple applications such as voice, video, and data.
Mpls Future Proofing Enterprise Networks For Long Term Success Wp101094Erik Ginalick
1) MPLS is a networking technique that facilitates efficient transport of different types of traffic like voice, video, and data over a single network. It provides simplified infrastructure, high scalability, availability, and security.
2) MPLS labels packets with short identifiers called labels which are used to route packets more efficiently compared to TCP/IP. This allows for traffic prioritization and quality of service.
3) For enterprises, MPLS enables converged wide area networking that reduces costs by decreasing the number of managed networks while improving flexibility, management, and application performance through traffic prioritization capabilities.
SharePoint In The Cloud: Evaluating Impact, Pros, And Cons - SharePoint Satur...Richard Harbridge
This document summarizes a presentation about evaluating SharePoint in the cloud. It discusses why organizations are moving SharePoint to the cloud, including lower upfront costs, pay-per-use models, and cloud providers leveraging scale. It also covers cloud models for SharePoint, such as Office 365, concerns around security, privacy and cost modeling in the cloud. The presentation evaluated key considerations around migrating SharePoint to cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon.
The document discusses how cloud services are impacting the work of Oracle technology experts. It notes that many database administrator and fusion middleware administrator roles will transition to cloud providers as more systems move to the cloud. It outlines a roadmap for technology experts that includes trialing cloud services, ongoing learning, and using hybrid cloud environments. It concludes that while some tasks will shift to cloud providers, technology experts still have opportunities consulting on cloud services, developing cloud software, and supporting hybrid environments that incorporate both cloud and on-premises systems.
The document discusses how cloud services are impacting the work of Oracle technology experts. It notes that many database administrator and fusion middleware administrator roles will transition to cloud providers as more systems move to the cloud. It outlines a roadmap for technology experts that includes trialing cloud services, ongoing learning, and adopting a hybrid approach using both on-premises and cloud systems. It concludes that while some tasks will shift to cloud providers, technology experts still have opportunities consulting on cloud services, developing cloud software, and supporting hybrid environments.
Data science holds tremendous potential for organizations to uncover new insights and drivers of revenue and profitability. Big Data has brought the promise of doing data science at scale to enterprises, however this promise also comes with challenges for data scientists to continuously learn and collaborate. Data Scientists have many tools at their disposal such as notebooks like Juypter and Apache Zeppelin & IDEs such as RStudio with languages like R, Python, Scala and frameworks like Apache Spark. Given all the choices how do you best collaborate to build your model and then work through the development lifecycle to deploy it from test into production ?
In this session learn the attributes of a modern data science platform that empowers data scientists to build models using all the data in their data lake and foster continuous learning and collaboration. We will show a demo of DSX with HDP with the focus on integration, security and model deployment and management.
Speakers:
Sriram Srinivasan, Senior Technical Staff Member, Analytics Platform Architect, IBM
Vikram Murali, Program Director, Data Science and Machine Learning, IBM
BPMN, BPEL, ESB or maybe Java? What should I use to implement my project?Guido Schmutz
Have you already asked yourself at the beginning of a SOA or Integration project about the technology you want to use? Is it feasible to implement the integration layer completely in Java or do modern integration platforms such as Oracle Service Bus or Oracle SOA Suite provide the benefits to get closer to the often proposed IT flexibility and agility?
A Generalized Label-Forwarding Architecture for the Future InternetAchim Friedland
This document proposes a generalized label-forwarding architecture called the Extended Label Stream Switching Architecture (ELSSA) for the future internet. It aims to address lessons learned from today's internet model, including improving privacy while minimizing network state, and allowing for built-in security, mobility, and quality of service capabilities. The proposed architecture uses "extended labels" that include packet counters and can identify flows to enable these functions while keeping a modular design that separates forwarding and routing.
Webinito Networks is a technology startup focused on digital library services, web services, and online branding services. They have 10 employees with 6 dedicated to DSpace development. Their DSpace team has over 3 years of experience implementing and customizing DSpace. They provide DSpace installation, customization, training, hosting, and documentation. They have successfully installed DSpace at 3 client sites and made improvements to the software.
This presentation provides an overview of New Zealand's managed learning environment (MLE). The MLE aims to develop an educationally relevant, open, modular, standards-based, and sustainable approach to digital tools and content for schools. Key components of the MLE include student management systems, learning management systems, eportfolios, reusable learning objects, and single sign-on identity management. The presentation outlines several work strands, including attendance management, system integration, online platforms, and eportfolios. It encourages participation and collaboration to improve the MLE for enhancing student learning.
Tara Prasad Panda is seeking a career opportunity with opportunities for growth. He has 2 years of experience in data warehousing and Informatica ETL development. Some of his responsibilities include requirement gathering, designing mappings, developing reusable transformation logic, testing, and migrating code to production environments. Currently he works as a Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. on a data masking project for Barclays Capital involving masking sensitive personal information from databases, files and message queues.
Enovation Solutions provides customization services for open source applications like DSpace. They summarized a DSpace customization project for the South Dublin County Council (SDCC) Learning Circle which included simplifying the submission process, standardizing author/keyword fields, adding a news/events system, and improving browsing and searching. Current projects mentioned include a digital learning object repository, a Fedora preservation system, a "dark archive" for historical images, and an open access portal.
The document discusses surveillance and its implications for privacy, security, and freedom. It notes the rise of surveillance technologies like webcams, phone cameras, traffic cameras, and more. It raises concerns about how easily surveillance is conducted and how this relates to issues like privacy, control, oppression, and censorship. It suggests people need to think carefully about the future of surveillance and how to ensure technologies support dignity, diversity and human rights.
The document discusses how to create user stories and develop websites using an agile methodology. It explains what user stories are, how they are developed through workshops, interviews and prototypes, and how they should follow INVEST and SMART principles. It also discusses related agile concepts like personas, story mapping, estimating effort and adapting to change. The overall process described is about collaborating with customers to develop working software through iterative user stories.
Engaging learners from objective to activity - MoodleMootAU 2018Donna Benjamin
Moodle's range of activities, resource options, and third party plugins offer a somewhat daunting smorgasbord of choice for designing an engaging learning environment for students.
This talk will explore some strategies for making choices that start with the learning objective by using some tricks of the business analysis trade to focus on the learner's needs.
Digitise the Dawn - 5 years on - LCA2018 OpenGLAMDonna Benjamin
At a miniconf in 2011 I announced a campaign to Digitise the Dawn*. We raised the cash, the National Library digitised the journal, and it's been available online in Trove for more than 5 years. So now what?
- What lessons can we learn from the campaign?
- How can libraries, archives and communities work together to increase access to past knowledge?
- What can and should we do with this knowledge once it's freely available?
- How do we ensure it lives on if the institutions who host it are defunded?
- Can we ask and answer these and other questions in this session?
Part storytime, part discussion and debate, this session will explore the circus at the intersection of activism, culture and technology.
*Wait. What's "Digitise the Dawn"? See http://digitisethedawn.org/australian-feminist-studies-report
Communication skills for everyone - DrupalCon ViennaDonna Benjamin
Communication. It's a skill. You already know how to communicate. Most of us do it, in one way or another, every single day. But what makes someone a great communicator? Is it natural talent or a skill that can be learned? Or something in between. This talk explores communication techniques, strategies and skills. Some that are simple, and some that need practice. Wherever you are on the communicator skill spectrum, you should find something new to put in your comms toolbelt. Come along and be prepared to talk to other members of the audience, share your own ideas and strategies for getting your point across, and for listening and understanding your colleagues, friends, and family.
Communication skills, just like coding skills, can be supported, improved and mastered with the use of tools, strategies and approaches. While some people seem naturally gifted, others need to work to improve these skills. But all of us can learn to listen, to question, to clarify, and to make requests more effectively.
This session will outline a range of communication tools, techniques and approaches, but also ask the audience to work in small groups to talk about talking. How we do it, whether online, in text in our issue queues and chat tools, or by using voice and video, or in person at meetups and sprints. We will also explore the challenges presented by our tools, and by our cultural diversity.
My hope is that by having this conversation, and looking at "Tools for Talking" means we can all accept and embrace the challenge to improve how we communicate.
Note: This is a conversation. Not a presentation.
Participants will be expected to share their own experiences too.
The Views module is a powerful tool. It gives site builders and site managers enormous control over displaying their content. But flexing the full power of views can be daunting.
In this session, we'll take a practical look at the difference between Views in Drupal 7 as a contributed module, and views in Drupal 8, now that it is in core.
We'll look at some of the Advanced features in views, and find out how we can get more out of our content using the full slice and dice capacity of the views module, with help from some of it's friends.
We'll conclude with an overview of the Views ecosystem, with pointers on where to go next to go from Views beginner, to Views master.
I am your user, why do you hate me linux.conf.au 2017Donna Benjamin
Open source software projects can be prickly toward their users. Poor documentation, a steep learning curve, and a finely tuned focus on excellence and quality can make a project community seem hostile. As users of many different open source projects over the years, Donna Benjamin and Leslie Hawthorn have often wondered about this problem and contemplated what to do about it. This session takes their long-standing private rant public in the hopes that it will help us all be better developers, collaborators and community members.
Digitise the Dawn - Sydney Mechanics School of ArtsDonna Benjamin
This document contains information about an upcoming event on women leadership and democracy in Australia, including the speaker Donna Benjamin and her contact information. It also includes photos from the National Library of Australia and a historical newspaper article about the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.
2020 is four years away. But really, it’s now. The summer Olympics will be in Tokyo. The city of Melbourne has a bike plan through to 2020. People are already working, and thinking about this reality.
2121 is 105 years away. That’s the future. How many people are working and thinking beyond their own lifetimes?
Informed by the past, but rooted in the present, let’s start that journey.
We can only change the future, by acting now.
This document discusses turning user stories into websites. It covers gathering stories through workshops, interviews, surveys, and competitive analysis. Stories should be broken into independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable chunks. Examples are provided for developing personas, roles, and acceptance criteria for different types of websites like a conference site. The document stresses collaborating as a team by telling stories, estimating effort, and achieving shared understanding of the project habitat using frameworks like Cynefin. The overall goal is for the product to evolve through iterative story development and teamwork.
This document appears to be the slides from a presentation titled "A Tale of Two Cities" by Donna Benjamin at DjangoCon AU 2016. The presentation discusses the cities of Paris and London, references Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities, and covers various topics relating to Django, open source development, communities and conferences. It promotes Django and open source tools, discusses concepts like diversity, burnout, and keeping the open web open. The presentation provides references and credits for images used.
Turning stories into websites - The PHP conference Australia editionDonna Benjamin
The world of agile project management is filled with "User stories". But what are they? and how do they relate to websites? This session will outline a range of different approaches to understanding the requirements of a project, and working with a team to bring those stories to life in a browser.
The world of agile project management is filled with "User stories". But what are they? and how do they relate to building websites with Drupal?
This session will outline a range of different approaches to understanding the requirements of a project, and working with a team to bring those stories to life in a browser.
This document discusses constructive conflict resolution. It begins by asking what conflict is and identifying some common causes of conflict including unmet needs, different values, perspectives, assumptions, and cultures. It then presents a 5-step process for dealing with conflict: 1) spot the conflict, 2) acknowledge it needs fixing, 3) reboot personally, 4) conduct a root cause analysis, and 5) resolve, compromise, or agree to disagree. Key principles for conflict resolution include compassion, understanding, perspective, flexibility, empathy, and respect. Nonviolent communication and non-defensive communication techniques are also presented.
Drupal is a pretty powerful web application framework - but it can be daunting to know where to start. Drupal Distributions provide a massive head start, but are also good places to explore to build knowledge about the range of modules you can use to build web solutions. Here's 10 to take a look at!
Conflict can be constructive.
Testing ideas by challenging them with alternatives is a useful process. But it can be uncomfortable and confronting for many people.
We value consensus. This is one of the Drupal community's great strengths. However, when consensus can't be reached, valuable time and energy is wasted. Contributions are left to languish forgotten in an issue queue.
This session will outline the types of conflict we encounter in the Drupal community, and explore some techniques for using conflict as a positive force for moving issues forward and avoiding stagnation.
Let's discuss how we can build a culture of respect to embrace the positive aspects of conflict and work together better.
https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org/session/constructive-conflict-resolution
Quicklink: https://joind.in/11977
ODF: Our Document Future - Open Document Format & Digital Preservation.Donna Benjamin
The document discusses digital preservation and the OpenDocument Format. It notes that digital preservation is important to maintain a communal memory across time, as humans are the only species to store information outside of their brains. It then outlines four elements that threaten future access to stored digital data: the storage media, hardware, software, and standards used. The document promotes the OpenDocument Format as an open standard and discusses several Australian efforts to support digital preservation, including the National Library, PADI, PANDORA, and National Archives of Australia projects.
Panopoly is a Drupal distribution that makes it easy to start building a website. This slidedeck introduces the concept of a distribution, compares Panopoly with Drupal7 and ends with some pointers to more info.
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SCEGGS Open Source journey for backend services
Mahara, Joomla
Website external
Clustered Services
Moodle CMS
ISOnet
TikiWiki
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LDAP for Intranet
AUC CMS
E-mail gateway
Primitive CMS
DNS
Satellite + ISDN
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First Web site
1994
Tech plan did not
mention Internet
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Free and Open Source Software –
continuum
100% Proprietary Open Source 100%
Desktop OS Backend LMS, CMS,
Services e-Portfolios
Office Suite
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Why FOSS?
• It does the job
• We have great support
• It’s cost effective
• It’s reliable and robust
• It’s continually evolving and improving
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Reliability
• Low vulnerability
• Patches/Fixes often automatic
• Vigilant community
• Last place we look when there are
problems
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The Future
• NOS -> Linux (OES Linux from Novell?)
• Looks bright
• Just Do It!
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Questions? Comments Your
Experiences
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The Open Source story at
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Ian Ralph
IT Manager
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We’ve had a long journey with open source – since 1996.
Our journey is different from Peter’s and will almost certainly be different from
yours
We started because there were no alternatives – with our first website was
built on a distribution of Linux that I can’t even remember
We have evolved with Open Source
We take the best from both worlds.
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You don’t have to choose.
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Schools and Open Source are not a case of either or.
It is possible to blend commercial and FOSS
There is a parallel journey in relation to Copyright and material licensed under
CC and other non-commercial licensing systems. Sylvie Saab has already
given a session on Copyright that has explored alternatives to restrictive
copyright – something that could be called open education.
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We started out journey with a simple website hosted on a Linux box
Unable to recall the name of the distribution
Here’s what it looked like.
Access was via dialup
It kept crashing and the staff in the boarding house used to walk up to my
office and press the reset button - that boarding house mistress is now our
webmanager!
Yes it crashed but it didn’t matter since it was not a vital part of our schools
infrastructure or services. But that was soon to change.
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SCEGGS Open Source journey for backend services
1994 2000 2010
LDAP for Intranet
Satellite + ISDN
First Web site
Clustered Services
Moodle CMS
DNS
Primitive CMS
E-mail gateway
AUC CMS
TikiWiki
ISOnet
Website external
Mahara, Joomla
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mention Internet
Tech plan did not
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A few things about our journey.
Services have evolved – there was no revolution.
Can you believe that we did not mention the work “Internet” once in our 1994 strategic plan –
let along Website or OSS!
We did what made sense at the time taking systems from one iteration to the next, finding
boundaries, overcoming problems, figuring out how to work around limitations
All the time the importance to the good functioning of the school and its services depended
more and more on the systems we provided
This meant that they had to be robust, scalable and reliable. Open source did not let us down
so we have continued on our journey.
There have been a number of FOSS systems that we have trialled and abandoned.
IM system Openfire
Drupal
pHpWebsite
Were out journey goes next is hard to say.
Maybe in 10 years I’ll look back at our NSSCF ICT strategic plan from 2009 and ask the
question how could I have written that with out mentioning ???????
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Free and Open Source Software –
continuum
100% Proprietary Open Source 100%
Desktop OS Backend LMS, CMS,
Services e-Portfolios
Office Suite
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Open source software usage is shown on this continuum. I’d imagine that
each school has some Open Source software and could draw something
similar.
Just as an aside I remember speaking to an IT manager moved to a school
where it was Microsoft end to end and he did say that there appeared to be
fewer “issues”……Maybe I could have made my life easier by moving
everything to the left????
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Office Suites
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Unlike Peter who has had some success with OSS desktops we have not
been able to move from the proprietary end.
Staff and students like to stick to what they know – when people are give a
choice they will tend to stay with the familiar.
Our trial were not successful – after a year we made our lives easier and
jumped back into the Microsoft boat.
That is not to say that we don’t have Open Source application on the desktop ,
but there are not many.
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Backend Services
• 7 / 17 servers run
• E-mail
• Websites
• LDAP the glue that binds it all together 8
At the backend things are different.
Our open source servers run on SuSe Linux
They are clustered
Our School admin package runs on Linux
While our website is hosted externally on a Windows platform, our CMS and
LMS all run internally on Linux servers
What would we do without LDAP????
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LMS, CMS, e-Portfolios
• LMS – Moodle ( 3 instances)
• CMS – Joomla!
• E-Portfolio – Mahara
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No need to say much about these, but I will mention the things I like.
With an active development community, if you ask the question, If only our
LMS could do this?” then there is almost certainly someone who has written
that module.
If you get stuck then the community has almost certainly discussed your
exact same problem and usually there is a solution
If your LMS/CMS/e-Portfolio does not do what you want then get someone to
change it so that it does
They need little support
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Why FOSS?
• It does the job
• We have great support
• It’s cost effective
• It’s reliable and robust
• It’s continually evolving and improving
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Reliability
• Low vulnerability
• Patches/Fixes often automatic
• Vigilant community
• Last place we look when there are
problems
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The Future
• NOS -> Linux (OES Linux from Novell?)
• Looks bright
• Just Do It!
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Questions? Comments Your
Experiences
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