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[Pierre van Male <vmalep@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

Alcasar looks like an interesting solution and indeed, I wanted to add the
captive protal in the list of features. I understood that Alcasar does not
offer the billing based in the consumption. This is however something that
could be easily added I believe.

Another idea that came to my mind is that the cyber café (or the school)
could sell/offer a usb key to each client/student with 2 partitions:

1 partition with a live (l/x)ubuntu + portable LibreOffice
<http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable/> +
LibreOffice.msi
2 partition with the home folder of the client/student to be mounted by the
live session or by the cyber café/school computer (+ maybe backup on the
server for the students: local owncloud?).

This way:

   - The user can get his own session on any computer (without the need of
   an LDAP).
   - Only one standard user has to be created on each machine (in addition
   to the admin one), without even the need for a password.
   - The user has access to his file on any other computer and can edit
   them with the portable LibreOffice (we could had other portable application
   if needed) and he can decide to install LibreOffice or even Ubuntu on
   another computer (maybe with a training at the school first if the teacher
   want to avoid problem with the parents...).

BR
Pierre

Le lundi 11 août 2014, Marc Stephan Nkouly <mcsteann@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Pierre is rigth those a vital functionallity of cyber cafe software for
> your information i will give two NAME the first is CYBER CAFE PRO VERSION 6
> , am sorry but i will research the rigth link and send later.
> The second is ALCASAR is a project that compile many others the link
> schould be alcasar.net .
> Let me know if they are usefull.
> Marc
> On Aug 10, 2014 9:08 PM, "Pierre van Male" <vmalep@xxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vmalep@xxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>
>> Marc may better define the needed features, because I personally never
>> ran a cyber café, but I am thinking about the following features:
>>
>>    - To unblock a desktop with a code generated from the server or
>>    manually form the server and calculate the time of use + billing.
>>    - To restore the original state of the system (i.e. guest session).
>>    - To charge the use of the printer.
>>    - We could imagine one step further with an ldap server that also
>>    calculate the login time for a client, but keep its file on the server to
>>    be recovered the next time he comes.
>>    - To have a proxy server (to limit the bandwidth).
>>    - To have a local repository (idem for the updates).
>>    - To have a centralize management of the software and the system
>>    config (to ease the management of the machines).
>>    - [to be continued]
>>
>>
>> Le dimanche 10 août 2014, Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e@xxxxxxxxx>
>> a écrit :
>>
>>>  Pierre van Male:
>>>
>>> No problem in installing the distribution, but it is more difficult to
>>> find a cyber cafe software for Linux.
>>>
>>>
>>> What features do you need?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alberto <https://www.google.com/+AlbertoSalviaNovella/about>
>>>
>>
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