Powerline is a simple, elegant system for managing publicly available computers; for example, at a library.

It focuses on being easy to use and painless to administer.

Features

• One-step reserving of a computer
• Live view of currently running and waiting sessions
• Simple, efficient management of users, systems, and settings
• Automatic management of the users queue
• Interoperability with the Pre-book reservations system by Userful
• One click statistics for day, week, month, year, and total

Requirements (server)

• Python version 2.5 or greater
• dbwrap version 0.1.6 or greater
• CherryPy version 3
• MySQL version 4 or 5
• MySQL Python bindings
• Genshi templating system
• NOTE: Powerline has been developed and tested only on Linux. It should run on Windows or Mac OS X without modification, but this has not been tested.

Requirements (client)

• Windows 95 and up
• Pre-book Client