[Yr7-10it] Electronic booking systems

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Thanks Tony,  I have also had some good replies to some enquiries that I 
made off-list about MRBS and I am looking forward to seeing it in action 
at our school this Friday. Thanks again everybody for all your feedback 
and suggestions.  These lists are cool! :-D

Regards Roland

Tony Richardson wrote:

>We installed MRBS here to replace the error prone BookIt system. We also
>wanted a system that was web based. Staff have taken to it like a duck
>to water. Very good system and the price is right! We configured it to
>do all our bookings - rooms and av equip etc.
>
>No real issues with getting it on our system apart from convincing our
>MS network manager that it was going to be ok and not cause conflicts
>(the MS products seem quite capable of doing that themselves). We used
>the Xampp package to install apache PHP and MySql and run the apache web
>server off a different port to IIS (thanks to Con for that suggestion)
>
>Cheers
>
>Tony Richardson
>Learning Technologies Coordinator
>Kardinia International College
>PO Box 17
>Geelong VIC 3220
>Phone: (03) 5278 9999
>Fax: (03) 5278 9529
>Email: richardsont at kardinia.vic.edu.au
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au
>[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Rupert Russell
>Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 2:11 AM
>To: yr7-10it at edulists.com.au
>Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] Electronic booking systems
>
>
>Hi Aksen,
>
>MRBS is a free, GPL, web application using PHP and MySQL/pgsql for
>booking meeting rooms. It's similar in concept to Netscape Calendar, but
>much cheaper!
>
>It's an Open Source room booking system, though I have used it as a
>Staff Diary, and also as an Equipment Booking system.
>
>It is reasonably easy to use but you have to have access to a MySQL 
>database online somewhere to run it.
>
>You also have to configure the setup using the a file called 
>config.inc.php it's not too hard. About as complex as writing &
>publishing WebPages in HTML.  You will also need a Web Server to host it
>on and access to a FTP program to publish it all.
>
>See: http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/
>
>If you would like more information let me know.
>
>You can take a look at a demo online at:
>http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/demo.html
>
>Regards,
>
>Rupert.
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Rupert Russell
>Senior Educator (e-Learning)
>TAFE Development Unit
>University of Ballarat 
>SMB Campus
>PO Box 668 Ballarat 
>Victoria 3353 
>AUSTRALIA
>
>Phone:  +61 3 5327 8057
>Fax:      +61 3 5327 8477
>e-mail:  r.russell at ballarat.edu.au
>URL:      http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell
>  
>
>>>>aksen_i at yahoo.com.au 11/29/05 4:02 PM >>>
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>>>>
>Hi,
>  
>  Excuse my ignorace, what is mrps?? Please forward more details on this
> electronic booking software and if anyone knows of a website on this 
>software would most appreciate it.
>  
>  thanks
>  
>  Aksen 
>
>Rupert Russell <r.russell at ballarat.edu.au> wrote:  Hi I have used this
>system for 2 sites for the past year or so and it
>works well.
>You have to watch that it makes repeat bookings properly.  That's one
>aspect that I have found a little tricky to use.  It pays to check that
>your repeat bookings have gone in ok apart from that I like it.
>
>I administer the user list using the config.inc.php file I created an
>Excel Spreadsheet to create the entries for users.  It can even generate
>random passwords for you if you like.
>
>If you would like a copy let me know and I will did it up.
>
>I also use it as a staff diary which works ok if you think of people as
>rooms (I use the room capacity number as an extension number)
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Rupert.
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Rupert Russell
>Senior Educator (e-Learning)
>TAFE Development Unit
>University of Ballarat 
>SMB Campus
>PO Box 668 Ballarat 
>Victoria 3353 
>AUSTRALIA
>
>Phone:  +61 3 5327 8057
>Fax:      +61 3 5327 8477
>e-mail:  r.russell at ballarat.edu.au
>URL:      http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell
>
>  
>
>>>>conz at cyber.com.au 28/11/2005 3:13:00 pm >>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:06:14PM +1100, Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
>  
>
>>hello friendly ICT teachers
>>
>>pls excuse cross-posts
>>
>>I am investgating electronic booking software and was wondering what
>>    
>>
>other schools were using?
>  
>
>>I am thinking of installing the open source MRBS - has anyone else
>>    
>>
>used this?
>
>
>The following may also be of interest:
>
> http://www.schooltool.org/ 
>
>Cheers,
>
>Con Zymaris
>
>- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
>- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
>- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry
>cluster.)
>
>  
>

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