M. Imran Sarwar, KICS, Lahore.

JavaFX is a new paradigm for developing rich client applications that can be run across desktop, mobile, TV, and other consumer platforms. JavaFX Provides an integrated development and deployment model for building rich client applications and enables the developers to easily integrate audio and video, graphics, rich text, and Web services. The workshop will exploits the main features of the JavaFX. It will be very useful for students specifically who are paying attention to indulge in Java domain. It allows designers and Java developers to easily leverage the best of today's advanced enterprise software and rich Internet applications.

Umar Akram, KICS, Lahore

PyKota is a full featured, internationalized, centralized, and extensible print quota management system for CUPS. It offers an unmatched flexibility and probably all you want to do with print quota software is either already included, easily scriptable with a few lines of shell scripting. It supports PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP, MySQL, or SQLite as the quota database backend. This software features most of what you might expect from a modern print quota and accounting solution. Its flexibility and configurability greatly eases its integration into your own computing environment.

Zahoor ur Rehman, KICS, Lahore.

Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Installing Koha on Linux is a very complex task and need experience and expertise. In this talk, step by step process to install Koha on Linux will be presented. This presentation will be very useful for librarians specifically. Key features of Koha, an open source ILS, will also be elaborated and how to fully exploit the potential of this software will be discussed.