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Welcome to the School Server - Community Edition ( |
Welcome to the School Server - Community Edition (XSCE, or http://schoolserver.org) project. XSCE is a school or classroom based server which extends the communication capabilities of connected laptops. |
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==Getting Started with |
==Getting Started with XSCE 0.2== |
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Get started by downloading and installing the current [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2 | |
Get started by downloading and installing the current [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2 | XSCE version ]]. |
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May 2013 Note: most are uniting around the upcoming v0.3 below, rather than v0.2. |
May 2013 Note: most are uniting around the upcoming v0.3 below, rather than v0.2. |
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==Getting Help with |
==Getting Help with XSCE== |
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Direct questions/comments to mailing list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel |
Direct questions/comments to mailing list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel |
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Human contact: [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Holt holt @ laptop.org] |
Human contact: [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Holt holt @ laptop.org] |
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==Upcoming version of |
==Upcoming version of XSCE 0.3== |
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Learn more about the short term goals for [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3 | the upcoming |
Learn more about the short term goals for [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3 | the upcoming XSCE version ]]. |
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Latest bleeding-edge RPM builds, at your own risk: [http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce/devel/RPMS/noarch/?C=M;O=D http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce/devel] |
Latest bleeding-edge RPM builds, at your own risk: [http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce/devel/RPMS/noarch/?C=M;O=D http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce/devel] |
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==Vision for |
==Vision for XSCE== |
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Learn more about the long term goals at [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/Vision | |
Learn more about the long term goals at [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/Vision | XSCE Vision]]. |
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==Design== |
==Design== |
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[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-January/006250.html Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11.] |
[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-January/006250.html Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11.] |
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Release of |
Release of XSCE [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.1 | 0.1 Stable]] and [[User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2 | 0.2 Coming.]] |
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===March 2013 Agenda=== |
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Boston meetup Mch 1-4 with Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal. Early pre-field test in Haiti. |
Boston meetup Mch 1-4 with Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal. Early pre-field test in Haiti. |
Revision as of 19:35, 9 May 2013
Welcome to the School Server - Community Edition (XSCE, or http://schoolserver.org) project. XSCE is a school or classroom based server which extends the communication capabilities of connected laptops.
Getting Started with XSCE 0.2
Get started by downloading and installing the current XSCE version .
May 2013 Note: most are uniting around the upcoming v0.3 below, rather than v0.2.
Getting Help with XSCE
Direct questions/comments to mailing list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Testing would be WONDERFUL. Are we tough enough? Start here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2/Test_Plan Also: let's start talking about testing 0.3 in May!
Report bugs and feature requests to https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xs-config
IRC (community chat) channel #schoolserver at busy times on irc.freenode.net
Weekly voice meeting are held on Skype 8PM "2PM" NYC Time Thursdays (email if you want to join)
Human contact: holt @ laptop.org
Upcoming version of XSCE 0.3
Learn more about the short term goals for the upcoming XSCE version .
Latest bleeding-edge RPM builds, at your own risk: http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce/devel
Vision for XSCE
Learn more about the long term goals at XSCE Vision.
Design
Design documents: Design Document, Use cases, and Release Priorities. See also Spec/Roadmap within the most recent versions above.
Original OLPC XS design and implementation available at OLPC School Server
Legacy 2013 Install Recipe for XO-1.75 (ARM).
Legacy 2012 Install Recipe for XO-1.5 (i386), XO-1.75 (ARM) and larger servers. Other Fedora 17+ platforms later.
Contributors
- Jerry Vonau (SW architecture)
- George Hunt (configuration, GUI, low-power HW)
- Tim Moody (documentation, testing, Puppet auto-distribution & config mgmt)
- Anna Schoolfield (testing, content/ebooks curation platforms)
- Anish Mangal (integration, offline cloud)
- Rodrigo Hartmann (security, GUI, maintainability, intl languages)
- David Farning (software engineering tips)
- Alex Kleider (bookserver eg. Pathagar)
- David Rodríguez Álvarez (web design)
- Rubén Rodríguez (Linux/Trisquel advisor)
- Adam Holt (documentation, community coordination & outreach)
- Professor Sameer Verma (free/open advisor & user)
- Sridhar Dhanapalan (video) & many more!
- Nitika Mangal (QA Manager in India)
- Santiago Collazo (Sysadmin)
- Kartik Kumar Perisetla (Sugar developer, Delhi, India)
- Mike Dawson (advisor on SME Server technologies, Mideast, Afghanistan)
Related Projects
- BRCK.com by Ushahidi
- http://SMEserver.org since 1999, based on CentOS
- http://eXeLearning.org being enhanced by Mike Dawson, for Nokia phones
- http://LibraryBox.us by Jason Griffey & All (map shows 25 locations)
- http://internet-in-a-box.org by Braddock Gaskill
- http://LocalFi.org by Caryl Bigenho, Sebastian Silva & All
- Sugar Network by Aleksey Lim
- BeLL Ground Server on RPi, by http://OLE.org
- Pathagar Bookserver by Sayamindu Dasgupta, now maintained by Seth Woodworth & All
History
Sep 2012 Agenda
Toronto area hack sprint Sept 16-23, incl public demo Saturday Sept 22.
Oct 2012 Agenda
Working w/ Alex Kleider's model classroom @ http://olpcSF.org/summit & http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012
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.
Dec 2012 Agenda
Jamaica implementation sprint (delayed)
Jan 2013 Agenda
Proposed Core Spec and Priority Tuning
Feb 2013 Agenda
Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11.
Release of XSCE 0.1 Stable and 0.2 Coming.
March 2013 Agenda
Boston meetup Mch 1-4 with Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal. Early pre-field test in Haiti.
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
May 2013 Agenda
Toronto-area Sprint May 8-13. Version 0.3 enters code-freeze May 13. Working in person with Braddock Gaskill all the way from LA, of http://internet-in-a-box.org !
Jun 2013 Agenda
Volunteers will be able to buy XO-4 Touch and Raspberry Pi if they will help test XSCE & http://internet-in-a-box.org etc!
Jul 2013 Agenda
v0.4 spec coming into view, running on many/most kinds of XOs, RPi, x86, 64-bit Fedora ??