Talk:School in a box

Old status

• Scout team (Mel, Ankur, Chris, Tank, etc) BUYING STUFF IN NEW YORK RUNNING AROUND HURRAH
• Houston team staying on-base, working with Ardurino, phoning in purchase requests (Seth, Nikki, David, Dan, etc)

Contents vs/ weight

2 x 50 lbs. 40 XOs. XOs weigh about 3 1/4 lb apiece. If they are part of this, you're already overweight. Rmyers 18:58, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

For the purposes of this creative session. it is safe to assume separate wt. limits for XOs themselves. ̃̃̃Cjl 19:35, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

Soldering tools

• Wire cutters
• Wire strippers

Rmyers 19:02, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

School server in a box

I recall some discussion of using an XO as a small school server. If that's so -

• external hard drive with XS image
• active antenna

If not, what about a mini, nano or pico-itx box school server. The XSX_Server_Implementation actually specifies a mini-itx form factor mother board.

I haven't tried this, but can an XO be used as a terminal to another linux box? If so, there's the console for the XS. Rmyers 19:10, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

• I successfully connected to a couple of machines (linux, darwin) from my XO using ssh. So an XO should be able to be used as a console on a headless XS. I know this probably qualifies as 'stupid linux tricks' but I hadn't tried it. Rmyers 15:50, 17 June 2008 (EDT)

Ask the pilots

Has anyone asked User:Leeming of OLPC_Oceania or other pilot leads, like Bryan Berry of OLE Nepal about what they most wish they had in a box when they started their pilots? Cjl 23:38, 17 June 2008 (EDT)

transcript

transcript, such as it is - we didn't do realtime transcription.

Jun 14 09:29:45 *	mchua is at the grassroots jam (well, setup for thus) in NYC
Jun 14 10:13:12 *	morgs has quit ("Tangled up Tubes!")
Jun 14 10:13:58 *	andreatl (n=alai@h-67-100-144-18.nycmny83.covad.net) has joined #olpc-groups
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Jun 14 11:20:27 *	mchua ie trying to transcribe
Jun 14 11:20:46 <mchua>	[[Pilot in a box]] should support repairs
Jun 14 11:21:06 <mchua>	assuming every child and teacher (40 kids max, 1 teacher min - demographic we're designing for)
Jun 14 11:21:12 <mchua>	has a working XO already; no need to ship spares
Jun 14 11:21:18 <mchua>	but we should put a doa to take apart
Jun 14 11:21:20 <mchua>	and we should put in screwdrivers
Jun 14 11:22:03 <mchua>	debating about whether to include a printed repair guide
Jun 14 11:22:10 *	Kiko-olpcc (n=Kiko@dh207-19-53.xnet.hr) has joined #olpc-groups
Jun 14 11:22:13 <mchua>	seth: are printed manuals really more accessible than digital ones?
Jun 14 11:22:51 <mchua>	chris: and are we sending the wrong message by not distributing everything digitally?
Jun 14 11:23:04 <mchua>	seth: we need to get people used to using our iwki
Jun 14 11:23:37 <mchua>	mike: is there an out-of-box, out-of-bag experience we want to promote?
Jun 14 11:27:52 <mchua>	mel: can we brainstorm before we sink into implementation, please?
Jun 14 11:27:58 <mchua>	dan: alternative power!
Jun 14 11:28:03 <mchua>	ankur: alternative connectivity!
Jun 14 11:28:05 <mchua>	mike: swag!
Jun 14 11:28:33 <mchua>	seth: we could put water purificaoitn tablets in there
Jun 14 11:28:48 <mchua>	chris: tha't's giving the bag a secondary purpose/focus that might not be a good thing to split our attentoin to
Jun 14 11:29:00 <mchua>	mike: clean-wipes to keep their tracpads clean and etc.
Jun 14 11:29:05 <mchua>	seth: we need better communication with the field
Jun 14 11:29:59 <mchua>	chris: a basic "care and feeding of the xo"
Jun 14 11:30:00 <mchua>	guide
Jun 14 11:30:32 <mchua>	dan: are we dpoing this for disaster recovery areas?
Jun 14 11:30:35 <mchua>	seth: disaster recovery!
Jun 14 11:30:57 <mchua>	bobby: if it's disaster recovery, something like water purificaiton would be good to put in
Jun 14 11:32:40 <mchua>	mel: assume they have basic needs taken care of - we need these bags to support education
Jun 14 11:32:42 <mchua>	seth: crafts!
Jun 14 11:32:48 <mchua>	mike: functional crafts!
Jun 14 11:49:37 <isforinsects>	No corporal punishment of children in the box; no putting of children in a box as corporal punishment
Jun 14 12:01:07 <andreatl>	Brainstorm list is compiled here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pilot_in_a_box/Saturday#NO_list
Jun 14 12:49:10 <cjl>	greetings Jammers  (at MNN, yes?)
Jun 14 12:50:21 *	cjl hears sounds of pizza boxes rustling, even from NJ.
Jun 14 12:51:09 <cjl>	andreatl: ping
Jun 14 12:52:38 <cjl>	insforinsects: ping
Jun 14 12:52:50 <cjl>	mchua ping
Jun 14 13:21:17 <cjl>	meetbot botsnack