OpenSource based school
Csanády Miklós <csm@piar.hu>
Budapesti Piarista Gimnázium
I. Goals and sources
Aim: cheap, student-proof teaching system for learning, developing, applications and network knowledge.
A school-portal connected to the teaching system to develop the communication among teachers, students and parents. Potentially replacing the paper-based administration of the school.
Users: lamer teachers and students with hacker skills.
Sources: approx. 7million HUF fund, a few students from a programming special course and a long summer holiday.
II. Strategy
Centralised hardware, separating teacher and student domains, all machines are closed up due to student-proofness. Improving cost efficiency by 1 million: projector is replaced by software. Linux operating system.
III. The realised system
a) PC lab: topology, hw, sw, vitrual projector with VNC, messaging board with VNC; floppy-server, CDRW server, rack-server.
b) Portal = authentication server = teachers' server
c) Who is under lock and key? Security considerations: who is threatened by whom?
d) Distributing the sources: application server = fileserver
c) Don't touch: floppy, CD, hdd-rack -> into old machines.
IV.
Today: Portal, virtual projector, OpenOffice as base office, php-developing course
Tomorrow: E-administration, open-source special courses, sysadmin course and language lab.