[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4cast #463: RightClick sampling

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OPLIN 4cast #463: RightClick sampling
November 10th, 2015

[image: light bulb moment] At last Thursday's OLC/OPLIN RightClick 2015 ice
breaker, the casual conversations around the room lead to the sharing of
some interesting information, and it seems like it's only right that we
should continue the sharing and talk about some of it in this post. (We
also all had a great time. Sorry, we can't share that in a blog post.) The
hints below are an even mix of non-commercial and commercial solutions and
are not ranked; our free-and-rather-imprecise applause meter app gave every
idea the same score, so these are just in alphabetical order. RightClick
2015 was so good, planning is already starting for RightClick 2016, so
watch for future announcements and plan to attend if you want more than
just four good ideas.

   - Bitnami <https://bitnami.com/learn_more> (thanks to Matthew Augustine)
   "Bitnami is a library of popular server applications and development
   environments that can be installed with one click, either in your laptop,
   in a virtual machine or hosted in the cloud. We take care of compiling and
   configuring the applications and all of their dependencies (third-party
   libraries, language runtimes, databases) so they work out-of-the-box. The
   resulting packaged software (a 'stack') is then made available as native
   installers, virtual machines and cloud images."
   - Gigalearn <http://gigalearnit.com/about-us/> (thanks to Melanie
   Wilson) "Gigalearn provides technology education for libraries, schools and
   private clients in the Cleveland area and beyond. Our mission is to help
   students and educators thrive in the digital age. Sure, it's a big task,
   but we eat obstacles for breakfast. We lead creative technology classes out
   and about in the community, help private clients get computer confident and
   competent, and we partner with our non-profit customers to provide
   wrap-around services including strategic planning, staff development, and
   grant writing."
   - Librarygame <http://librarygame.co.uk/index.html> (thanks to Chris
   Krumnow) "Librarygame is a web application running on a server that is
   either remote or local to a library management system. Librarygame links
   into the LMS to collect participating user activity. When a Librarygame
   user borrows or returns an item (and other types of activities) the LMS
   sends this information to Librarygame, where it is processed. No manual
   input of information is required by the user. Certain activities will earn
   users points and occasionally award them achievements and badges."
   - SmokePing <https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/> (thanks to Karl
   Jendretzky) "Smokeping is a latency measurement tool. It sends test packets
   out to the net and measures the amount of time they need to travel from one
   place to the other and back. For every round of measurement smokeping sends
   several packets. It then sorts the different round trip times and selects
   the median, (ie. the middle one).... Sometimes a test packet is sent out
   but never returns. This is called packet-loss. The color of the median line
   changes according to the number of packets lost. All this information
   together gives an indication of network health."

*Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - BitNami Cloud Hosting offers an easy way to set up and host Web apps.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cph&AN=59221581&site=ehost-live>
   (*eWeek*, 3/7/2011, p.28-30 | Jason Brooks)
   - Just a game?
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=93362373&site=ehost-live>
   (*American Libraries*, Jan./Feb. 2014, p.26 | Meredith Farkas)
   - Bufferbloat: Dark buffers in the Internet.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=71678080&site=ehost-live>
   (*Communications of the ACM*, Jan. 2012, p.57-65 | Jim Gettys and
   Kathleen Nichols)

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