LiveBlogging from BCH5 - 4

NewGenLib - New Generation Library automation - Suneel V - A Case Study in OpenSource

  • Two people - Core functional guy with 18 yrs of library management.
  • Companies involved - Verus Solutions Pvt Ltd and Kesavan Institute of Knowledge Management.
  • VTLS - best library automation software in US
  • 13 lacs - cost of the lib automation back at least a decade ago
  • First breakthrough Goa Library.
  • 150 installations by 2007. Idea took shape in 2002. Development ended in 2004.
  • In Jan 2008, NewGenLib was declared OpenSource. In the period following it, they had more than a couple of thousand downloads. [3500+]
  • Ramesh asked this question “Would they have the same amount of downloads if the software was declared free but not opensource?”

Django Web Framework - Shabd - Ex-Oracle guy

  • Demo session for building a blog/project management solution in Django.
  • Time limit: 20 mins.

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