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* [http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ eGranary Digital Library]
* [http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ eGranary Digital Library]
* [http://villagetelco.org/ VillageTelco] by Terry Gillett et. al.
* [http://villagetelco.org/ VillageTelco] by Terry Gillett et. al.

=Our Community=
'''Lets move this to a subpage call 'about'. The product can stand on its own on the front page.'''

Our community is made up of people just like you. If you are interested in the project please reach out to any of our members to learn more about us.

* [http://sugardextrose.org/users/507 Jerry Vonau] (SW architecture)
* [http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/author/georgejhunt/ George Hunt] (configuration, GUI, low-power HW)
* [http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/tim-moody/6/722/2a6 Tim] [http://google.com/search?q=Tim+Moody+site%3Alists.laptop.org Moody] (documentation, testing, Puppet/Ansible auto-distribution & config mgmt)
* [http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php Anna Schoolfield] (testing, content/ebooks curation platforms)
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/anishmangal Anish] [http://twitter.com/m_anish Mangal] (integration, offline cloud)
* [http://www.meetup.com/programmersandentrepreneurs/members/38583022/ Rodrigo Hartmann] (security, GUI, maintainability, intl languages)
* [http://activitycentral.com/tags/david-farning David Farning] (software engineering tips)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqAKK9tUIiY Alex Kleider] (bookserver eg. [https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar Pathagar])
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-rodriguez/63/91/abb David Rodríguez Álvarez] (web design)
* [http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-team Rubén Rodríguez] (Linux/Trisquel advisor)
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Holt Adam Holt] (documentation, community coordination & outreach)
* [http://verma.sfsu.edu Professor Sameer Verma] (free/open advisor & user)
* [[User:Sridhar|Sridhar Dhanapalan]] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWji2O3p-9s video]) & many more!
* [http://in.linkedin.com/pub/nitika-mangal/3/790/b50 Nitika Mangal] (QA Manager in India)
* [http://sugardextrose.org/users/31 Santiago Collazo] (Sysadmin, [http://ansibleworks.com Ansible])
* [http://olpcMAP.net?id=1158001 Kartik Kumar Perisetla] ([https://sites.google.com/site/kartikperisetla/miscellaneous Sugar developer,] Delhi, India)
* [http://paiwastoon.net Mike Dawson] (advisor on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SME_Server SME Server] technologies, Mideast, Afghanistan)
* [http://sethish.com Seth Wolfwood] ([http://www.olpcsf.org/node/126 Pathagar] ebooks library)
* [http://internet-in-a-box.org Braddock Gaskill] (Internet-in-a-Box)
* [http://codewiz.org Bernie Innocenti] (free software advisor)
* Mikus Grinbergs (XO-4 & similar hardware testing)
* [http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/john-gunkel/42/5b0/7 John Gunkel] (IT configuration)
* [http://in.linkedin.com/pub/ajay-garg/5/4/434 Ajay Garg] (webdav 1-to-many collaboration)
* [http://es.linkedin.com/in/migonzalvar Miguel González] (performance testing)
* [http://anee.me/ Aneesh Dogra] (Pathagar digital book library)
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andreas-gros/47/566/80 Andi] [https://twitter.com/future_andi Gros] (Pathagar books' metadata: where & why?)
* [http://villagetelco.org/2011/04/small-enterprise-campus-network-secn/ Terry Gillett] (Village Telco, wireless integration)
* [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Satellit Tom] [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Satellit Gilliard] (CentOS testing)
* [http://olpcbasecamp.blogspot.com/ T.K. Kang] (testing, Asia outreach)
* [http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming David Leeming] (Oceania/Pacific deployment realities)
* [https://twitter.com/craigperue Craig] [http://jm.linkedin.com/in/craigperue Perue] (Jamaica/Caribbean project management)
* [http://dk.linkedin.com/in/mitchseaton Mitch Seaton] (deployment realities, Philippines, Australia, Madagascar)
* [http://bzg.fr Bastien Guerry] (OLPC France, Lisper, philosopher-in-chief!)
* [http://books.google.com/books/about/Power_Line_Communications_in_Practice.html?id=2cvj-oFvfE0C Xavier Carcelle] (OLPC France/Madagascar, backup testing)
* [http://reactivated.net Daniel Drake] (deployment scalability, based out of [http://www.fundacionzt.org/ Nicaragua])
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj Samuel Jacob Klein] (open educational architectures, Wikipedia community relations)
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Contributions/Quozl James] [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/james-cameron/13/92b/aa3 Cameron] ([http://laptop.org/about/people/james-cameron Quozl], keeping us all honest!)
* [http://thinkbignepal.blogspot.com/2011/06/thank-you-olpc-volunteer-kevin-mark.html Kevin Mark] (live tech support, on the '''#schoolserver''' channel at http://webchat.freenode.net)


=Our Future=
=Our Future=

Revision as of 15:14, 18 September 2013

This IIAB XSCE content does not reflect the opinion of OLPC. These pages were created by members of a volunteer community supporting OLPC and deployments.

The school Server Community Edition provides communication, networking, content, and maintenance to schools and classrooms. In everyday usage the school server provides services which extend capabilities of the connected laptops while being transparent to the user. These services include:

  • Classroom connectivity – Similar to what you would find in an advanced home router.
  • Internet gateway – If available, an internet connection is made available to laptops.
  • Content – Tools to make instructional media available to their schools and classrooms.
  • Maintenance – Tools to keep laptop updated and running smoothly.

Get started by downloading and installing the latest: XSCE 0.4 Release Candidate 1 was released August 24, 2013.

Or consider the earlier full release of XSCE 0.3 released June 6, 2013.

Our FAQ

If you are anything like me, you are already losing interest in lofty, often jumbled, and ambustion prose of the wiki. If so, please jump to the Frequently Asked Questions (and answers!) from our global community.

Volunteer contributors keep our FAQ fresh thanks to organic input from folks just like yourself, always welcome!

Our Ecosystem

Lets emphasize the ecosystem this release. The core product is sound enough to compare, complement, and compete with other projects in the ecosystem.

The School Server Community Edition (XSCE, or http://schoolserver.org) is a global project where volunteer professionals are taking the One Laptop per Child movement into a new decade, enabling quality learning among the world's poorest children. Commercial support for our free software is available for those who need it, at Activity Central and through freelance consultants as necessary. Most important, you're invited to contribute your talents to kids' schools worldwide, in any way you find meaningful!

There are hundreds of similar projects around the world. Each work from slightly different perspectives. If you are interested in the project... but don't quite 'feel it,' please consider one of the following projects.

Our Future

For more information about getting involved in the project please see Getting involved.

Now's the time to bring together the upcoming XSCE 0.4 version, with our July 8-12 Hack Sprint near Winnipeg in Canada, and final release expected in September 2013.

Do try some of the latest RPM builds, at your own risk of course: http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce/devel.

Or you can use the repo definition http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce-devel.repo.

Learn more about the long term goals at XSCE Vision.

Our History & Inspiration

How did XSCE's design evolve? Progress only makes sense when we learn from the past...

Nov 2013 Agenda

v0.5 hack sprint culmination, expected Nov 13-15 in Malacca, Malaysia, in conjunction with OLPC Basecamp 2013 (Nov 16-18) whose enlivening blog lays clear our humanitarian commitment.

Oct 2013 Agenda

v0.5 hack sprint crystallization, expected Oct 21-23 in or near San Francisco, following SF's Summit (Oct 18-20), and in conjunction with the Internet Archive's great Books in Browsers Summit Oct 24-25!

Sep 2013 Agenda

v0.4 release expected. Haiti implementation of 0.4 at two schools, for the new school year.

Aug 2013 Agenda

XSCE 0.4 RC1 released August 24. Prep for final release! Haiti implementation late Aug and early Sept. Utilite and/or TrimSlice custom hardware early prototype shipping to beta experimenters.

Jul 2013 Agenda

v0.4 Sprint July 8-12, 1hr north of Winnipeg. v0.4 spec gaining precision, bringing stability & configurability to most XOs, x86, 64-bit Fedora, RPi? Pathagar bookserver & Internet-in-a-Box integration also expected.

Jun 2013 Agenda

Version 0.3 released! Prep July sprint! Volunteers can buy XO-4 Touch Laptops if they will help test XSCE & http://internet-in-a-box.org etc.

May 2013 Agenda

Very successful Toronto-area Sprint May 8-13,with Braddock Gaskill all the way from LA! 0.3 RC1 unleashed May 14; RC2 May 28? India prototype installed.

Apr 2013 Agenda

Prep v0.3 May sprint. Los Angeles interfacing with Caryl Bigenho's http://localfi.org and Braddock Gaskill's http://internet-in-a-box.org.

Mch 2013 Agenda

Boston meetup Mch 1-4 with Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal. Early pre-field test connects an orphanage from Haiti.

Feb 2013 Agenda

Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11.

Release of XSCE 0.1 Stable and 0.2 Coming.

Jan 2013 Agenda

Proposed Core Spec and Priority Tuning.

Dec 2012 Agenda

Jamaica implementation sprint (delayed).

Nov 2012 Agenda

Centred around Toronto area hack sprint Nov 10-18:

Expand testing+UX with Anna Schoolfield, Tim Moody & Seneca College students' packaging with York Univ/Seneca College Professor Chris Tyler.

Meet with Anish Mangal and Nathan Riddle near Detroit etc to discuss wider community integration.

Oct 2012 Agenda

Working w/ Alex Kleider's model classroom @ http://olpcSF.org/summit & http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012.

Sep 2012 Agenda

Toronto area hack sprint Sept 16-23, incl public demo Saturday Sept 22.