The document describes Project iNTUpret, an open source wiki aimed at simplifying and explaining NTU's complex website information for students. It would allow students to freely access and edit pages to help others navigate the university system. The project founders discuss open source requirements and safeguards, objectives of helping students understand procedures, and potential business models of offering the wiki content for free while selling printed guidebooks.

1. Project iNTUpret Group Members: Ng Jun Sen Sivanessan

2. Remember: Using the STARS registration system for the first time?

7. Ever tried: Booking an LT or the auditorium for your event?

13. NTU’s Translated Userguide

14. iNTUpret

15. NTU’s Translated Userguide Aims to decipher the complex and messy information that is on the University’s website Inspired by simple.wikipedia.org Simplifies the information Encourages students to contribute to the pages

16. NTU’s Translated Userguide Open source concept allows students to freely access, edit and distribute. Open source would also allow for greater sharing while facilitating moderation Garner input from seniors who have gone through the system Aid new students who have difficulty using the system

17. Interesting articles STARS Step-by-step procedural guide to how the system works One of the most confusing things to a freshman, explained clearly and concisely

18. Interesting articles Course Modules For example, CPE802’s module could be explained in detail on the wiki page Includes feedback from student, lecturer’s bio and links to study guides

19. Open Source Requirements No intentional secrets Everything is transparent No agreements No OSR-incompatible dependencies Availability Patents

20. Open Source Requirements No OSR-incompatible dependencies Wiki site is based off an existing platform, MediaWiki, a web-based wiki software It is a FOSS software distributed under the GNU GPL v2 license There might be a problem NTU’s content is copyrighted! Therefore, no plagiarism of NTU’s content, requiring us to create original content for the site Even then, we can use screenshots and NTU content as under Singapore law, our site benefits from Fair Dealing for academic use

21. Open Source Requirements Availability Jimmy Wales: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.” Through a wiki page, anybody with Internet access will be able to learn important administrative information for free

22. Safeguards Students are to log in only with NTU email account Spread news of site through word of mouth and Chronicle Pages have a style guide that has to be followed Page moderators will re-format and review information where necessary

23. Objectives An attempt to help staff and students understand complex administrative procedures To guide NTU students through its services and website To provide an open source platform of sharing amongst students Future use for commercial and business purposes

24. Where to go from here Business Model Produce a better-packaged, more visually presented version in a printed guidebook Similar to many current open source software models Source code (the information on iNTUpret wiki) is offered for free But the packaged .exe binaries (the printed guidebooks) are sold at a small price

25. Where to go from here For example: Users can access iNTUpret wiki at any time and navigate its contents But a printed guidebook can be purchased by those who wants a physical copy that’s easier to read

26. Where to go from here Dual-licensing Source Code (iNTUpret) Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license Executable (Guidebook) Copyrighted (design and illustrations) Content still uses iNTUpret’s information, so it’ll keep the CC BY-NC-SA license

27. What’s in the guidebook It could be anything important to the student, from instructional guides to explanatory ones! Can include a pullout calendar of all the important events of the year

28. What’s in the guidebook Any profit earned will be channeled back to employ good writers for certain pages in the wiki Thus ensuring a continual flow of data entry and output

29. Conclusion iNTUpret meets: Open source software requirement Open source business model But more importantly, iNTUpret is a refinement of proprietary systems and interfaces And supports free use and dissemination of important information

30. Conclusion To benefit end-users, You.

31. Thank you!