User:Martinlanghoff/Deployment Team Workshop Plan

Group and required gear

This workshop is aimed at a small group of technical personnel -- normally not more than 7. It is expected that the participants will have at skills in planning, Linux systems administration, and computer hardware repairs.

For the workshop we will use

• Internet access (unrestricted, as we'll access non-standard services and ports)
• A few XO computers -- ideally at least one per participant, unlocked/devkeyed.
• A server to be installed as test XS (matching the HW configuration planned for the XS)
• Access Point (matching HW configuration for the APs to be deployed)
• Network switch, network cables -- to be used with the XS in the test network
• Blackboard / Whiteboard
• Projector

Strategic Planning

• Logistics and Inventory
• Antitheft
• Content Filtering
• Additional HW required and preparation time for some options
• Need of a local OS Image
• Handling local languages - translation, inclusion in OS img

XO Basics

• Basic XO use
• Basic diagnostics
• OFW tricks
• Basic disassembly & repair
• Documentation

Logistics

• Organizing logistics
• Storage
• Repair notes

Inventory

• Why
• Inventario (from Paraguay Educa)
• Workflow
• Integration with antitheft

XS

• Manual installation
• Basic manual configuration
• Automated installation via kickstart (for large deployments only)
• Key services: Internet access, collaboration, backup, upgrade
• Administration via Moodle UI
• Advanced topics
  • Content filtering
  • Remote administration with Puppet
  • Where to find other advanced topics

Antitheft

• How it works
• What it controls
• Inventory and XS integration
• Laptop states and actions: activation, de-activation (lease expiry), re-activation, "kill".
• OS Updates

Local languages

• Working with Pootle
• Translations to Sugar and system components
• Translations to Activities
• Integrating into your OS image
• Upstream

Local Content

• Library Bundles (XOL files)
• Content on XS
• Content websites for XOs

Creating an OS image

• Introducing: olpc-os-builder
• Selecting components
• Local language bits
• Antitheft: signing the image
• XS: updating laptops in the field

Support procedures

• Relevant mailing lists
• Reporting hardware problems
• Using WRMS