School Infrastructure

Below are some sample sessions from this stream:

1. You can get there from here: Delivering on the promise of a low cost, open source, Digital Education Revolution.

Joining the Digital Education Revolution (DER) has been criticised as unsustainable but after careful consideration St Margaret Mary's College, Townsville determined to apply for DER funding and was successful. The decision was based on an ambitious and radical approach. We have enabled our Digital Education Revolution by developing a College wide wireless netbook deployment as well as replacing our standard lab model with Open Source systems.
The goal was to support staff and students in “always available” access to ICT centred learning, leveraging Open Source technologies to reduce IT expenditure and guarantee sustainability.

We outline the journey and detail the complete solution in which all our community are partners and learning is in a truly revolutionary, managed, Open Source environment.

2. Daemon Tools and "controlling exe files on USBs and the like with TrustNoExe".

This session is in two parts. Both have been tested in the EQ MOE environment.

So you have this cool music teaching program but it needs the CD in the drive all the time. No, don't make thirty copies of the CD. Use Daemon Tools to share your CD across the network. Here are all the fine details about making it work smoothly.

Your teachers bitterly resent the way that students just run games from their USB flash drives, or from their home drive. Can you stop them? Hear about all the (often expensive) options that do not work and, in detail, the free option that does (mostly) work.

3. Discussion and demonstration of the use of Open Source software in schools

The concept of Open Source was largely sparked from Educators. Users don't have to move to Linux to take advantage of it as much of it runs on Windows. Is easy to install and has an active community of people making it better.

This session consists of 4 parts:
  Using Linux terminals within MOE2 at Dalby State High School
  Using VMWARE on Linux and VM Appliances like ESVA and Dansguardian at Iona (Demo)
  Using Shorewall Firewall, openVPN, Nagios at MBC (Demo)
  A forum to address points on how to overcome inertia within systems to using Open Source solutions.

4. A 'nuts and bolts' Linux session

For Questions or to add your presentation contact Clive Gordon