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Pedagogical Freedom Debian, Free Software, and Education August 1, 2010 – DebConf10, New York City

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Slides prepared for the Debconf10 held at New York City.

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Pedagogical FreedomDebian, Free Software, and Education

August 1, 2010 – DebConf10, New York City

Fedena is an open source school management system (SIS) based on

Ruby on Rails

Fedena is an ideal solution for all teaching and school management

related issues and it helps to manage all school related activities online.

• Initially developed by Foradian Technologies with the intention of providing an efficient, user friendly school related solution to the whole World

• to provide a system that should make the user feel that the real power is in their hands.

Why open source ?

• No such open source solutions (especially web2.0)

• No simple & user friendly alternative• Our dream that every one should get

benefited from it

Apache License 2.0

• It allows use of the source code for the development of proprietary software as well as free and open source software.

• Business friendly

Features

• Eye Catchy UI design and easy navigation• User friendly and simple• Any one with basic knowledge in computer

and internet can easily operate fedena

Modules available with Fedena 2.0• Student Admission• Student Management• Messaging System• Event Scheduling• Examination Management• Attendance Management• Time Table Allocation• SMS alerts• Human Resource Management• Finance Management• Report generation for all the above

Some screenshots

Dashboard

Calendar

Event creation

Graphical reports

Timetable

Attendance

SMS settings

Feel the power at

http://demo.projectfedena.org/

Benefits for teachers

• Improvement in productivity– Easy tracking of students– Analyzing their performance and attendance– Instant Report Generation– As the entire data is online and secure, any analysis

can be done at any desired point of time.

E-Learning with Fedena 3.0

• The Project currently focuses on an E-learning solution with which the teachers and students can collaborate with each other and undergo knowledge sharing. This way teachers and students can get in touch 24/7

Response for Fedena• Many schools in Asia and Africa are excited about

this project and started implementing the same in their schools/institutions/campus

• Schools of USA/UK already have proprietary SIS systems. We are getting good reviews about the project. But implementations are very low

Challenge

• Customization requirements– The main challenge that we have found while

implementing the application in different schools is that, as the mode of working of each school differs, there is a great need for customization.

Possible solution• Since the development framework is Ruby on

Rails, the customizations can be integrated in a short span of time. We need contribution from opensource enthusiasts all around the world so that most of the customizations will be available for free download.

Future plans

• Fedena 3.0 – E-Learning (2010 December)• Fedena 4.0 – E-Schooling (2012)• Fedena 5.0 – E-University (2013)– Fedena 5.0 is code named as “Taxila” in honour of

one of the first universities of world, which was part of Ancient India.

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