Jason Whitaker, Director of IT at Transylvania University, on how Transy utilizes the Concerto open source digital signage solution. Presentation delivered at 2011 AIKCU Technology Conference.

1. Conducting a Digital Signage CONCERTO Jason Whitaker Transylvania University

2. Open source digital signage solution LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Web based – just point a browser at the server and go www.concerto-signage.com Active online community What is Concerto?

3. What does it look like?

4. Web based admin interface Create users, groups, screens and feeds Feeds contain content Screens are identified by MAC address Multiple feeds can be assigned to a screen Groups can be assigned rights to place content into a feed No built in AD integration, but has CAS… How do you administer it?

7. Don’t worry about finding hardware to fit their “Live CD” – just use a browser RSS feeds are supported, but URL must be inserted into the database manually Serialized PHP array is used to markup certain content, must build by hand and insert into database manually at this time Creating templates from scratch looks daunting Password reset doesn’t appear to work Gotchas

8. Conducting a Digital Signage CONCERTO Jason Whitaker Transylvania University