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==Introduction==
This wiki page details the proposed topics for papers for the IFLA-IT 2015 satellite conference: http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/IFLA_IT/IFLA-IT2015

The theme (of satellite meeting): '''“Open Source: transforming information access in libraries”'''

==Understanding Open Source technologies==
===The Linux kernel===
*https://www.kernel.org
*http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Linux

===The GNU software===
*https://www.gnu.org/software

===The GNU licenses===
*https://www.gnu.org/licenses

===The programming tools===
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_programming_languages

===The web app stacks===
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat

===The distributions===
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
===The certification===
*https://www.lpi.org

==Using Open Source for library management==
===Integrated Library Management Systems===
*http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Koha
*http://www.greenstone.org

===Information Index and Discovery===
*http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/VuFind
*http://www.elasticsearch.org

===Blogs===
*http://blogs.lib.sun.ac.za
*https://wordpress.org

===Wiki's===
*http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za
*https://www.mediawiki.org

===Mailing Lists===
*http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za
*https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman

==Using Open Source for research management==
===Institutional Research Papers Repository===
*http://scholar.sun.ac.za
*http://www.dspace.org
*http://www.eprints.org

===Institutional Research Data Repository===
*http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenData
*http://ckan.org
*http://thedata.org
*http://geonode.org

===Academic Journals===
*http://journals.sun.ac.za
*http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OJS

===Conference Proceedings===
*http://conferences.sun.ac.za
*http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OCS