Final presentation for
LIS653
Introduction
The final presentation aims to introduce, install, and
sample configure an installation of an open-source
information management package. The extent of
work spent on the different activities
Assumptions
Each package in presented by one presenter to an
audience.
It is assumed that during the presentation time, every audience member
have ssh connection to the root account of server that runs the
Debian operating system. Any person
present who does not have such a connection is not part of the audience.
The presenter may, optionally, discuss the installation of the
software on other operating systems.
Activities
We introduce the activity here is the most likely followed
cronological order. It should however be clear that the installation
is the most important component.
introduce
The introduction of the softwore needs to cover the
following
- purpose of package
- package history
- status of development
- package uptake
- overall architecture
- names of important protocols used/implemented
- names of important underlying software pieces
- names of important other software packages that the depend on the current package
Presenters assume that underlying technologie and underlying
software packages that have been covered in the course may not need
any introduction. For example nobody need to cover what SQL, ssh or
Apache is.
install
During the final presentation, all audience should install the
software package. The presenter needs to allow sufficient time to do
this. The planning of the presentation neeeds to take account of
observed behaviour of the audience from previous installations of
software packages.
The installation may be trivial. This is more likely to be the case
with more generic and widely used packages. In this case the
instructor needs to spent more time on the other activities in order
to reach the target time.
customize
This section is highly dependent on the package installed.
It should mention
- principal source of package information outside of Debian
- types of modules, extensions plugins
- main files and directories that allow for customization
- example customization
Media
The activity introduce
is best conducted using slide-like
format in either Microsoft powerpoint, or as PDF slides produced,
for example, with beamer. The install
and configue
activity is best documented in HTML, or as a plan text file, or as a
Word or PDF for print document. The HTML has the advantage of
allowing the <code> and <var> that the audience member
has to type. This could be a literal for the former or a variable
for latter. However, since there is no requirment for HTML writing
skills assumed, a presentation in plain text, or as a Word
documents, with similar annotation is perfectly fine.
It is therefore clear that the presentation be split into two
files. The first file has the assignment name
slides
and the
second has the assigment name
doc
. The course code is
lis654
. You need to take note of the assignment
name and the course code. Then just follow the
uploading instructions.