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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<br>
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Regards Roland<br>
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<pre wrap="">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: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:richardsont@kardinia.vic.edu.au">richardsont@kardinia.vic.edu.au</a>
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] On Behalf Of Rupert Russell
Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 2:11 AM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yr7-10it@edulists.com.au">yr7-10it@edulists.com.au</a>
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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/">http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/</a>
If you would like more information let me know.
You can take a look at a demo online at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/demo.html">http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/demo.html</a>
Regards,
Rupert.
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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: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:r.russell@ballarat.edu.au">r.russell@ballarat.edu.au</a>
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell">http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell</a>
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<pre wrap=""><!---->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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:r.russell@ballarat.edu.au"><r.russell@ballarat.edu.au></a> 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.
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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: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:r.russell@ballarat.edu.au">r.russell@ballarat.edu.au</a>
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell">http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell</a>
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<pre wrap="">hello friendly ICT teachers
pls excuse cross-posts
I am investgating electronic booking software and was wondering what
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<pre wrap="">I am thinking of installing the open source MRBS - has anyone else
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<pre wrap=""><!---->used this?
The following may also be of interest:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.schooltool.org/">http://www.schooltool.org/</a>
Cheers,
Con Zymaris
- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry
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