XS Community Edition/0.4/Road Map

Summary

School Server - Community Edition (XSCE) is volunteer projected which provides communication, networking, content, and maintenance capabilities to a school and or classroom. It is designed to be easily adopted by existing OLPC deployments or other similar education projects.

Objective

The primary objective for XSE 0.4 will be scaling the project. The objectives for releases 0.1 to 0.3 were quite narrowly defined because of the need to establish a stable foundation while modularizing the structure. This eases development and maintenance while reducing the learning curve for potential developers and users.

Deployments using existing School Server variants should be able to start rebasing on XSCE 0.4. Several deployments have been using school servers for several years. Their needs are well understood. Their feedback is invaluable.

Scope and aim

The goal is to make a XSCE version which can serve as an wireless access point for a school with several extended features as listed at User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.4/Project_Specifications

Timeline

Jul 7/8 - Jul 12/13 Sprint in Manitoba may accelerate the outline below:

Aug 5 Feature Freeze and RC1 release

Aug 12 RC2 release

Aug 19 Final release

This release will form XSCE 0.4. All the upgrades, besides being published as installation images, will be distributed in the form of incremental rpm updates.