[Technical] Equipment and Room booking system

[Clark, Ian C]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Tony Richardson
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:44 AM
> To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Technical] Equipment and Room booking system
> 
> We have just changed from Bookit (not web based and some 
> problems over the years) to Meeting Room Booking System 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrbs/ - open source and free 
> and easily adapted to allow booking of all our resources from 
> tvs to cameras to rooms. Quite a sophisticated system with a 
> recurrent bookings etc allowed but simple to set up if you 
> know the basics of php/MySql. We have it operating in a 
> Windows 2000 server environment and authenticating to Windows
> 
> Used by VUT too I believe
> 

Hi Tony,

If you want to try out MRBS (which I had to look at on behalf of Mont
Albert Primary School) or any other PHP application, a great quick and
dirty way is to download and use Uniform Server (
http://www.uniformserver.com/ ) which will turn a Windows box (can be
anything from your XP notebook to a Win2k3 server) into a
PHP/MySQL/Apache platform. 

There's no actual installation - you can unzip its single folder
straight onto your desktop or even a USB key, then run and configure it
from there. The key can travel with you so that whatever computer you're
on becomes the application server.

And the price is right.  :-)

Cheers,
Clarky


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