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Welcome to the School Server - Community Edition (XSCE) project. This community-led project (http://schoolserver.org) is breathing life and rigor into the sometimes unmaintained OLPC XS, to serve many different global school scenarios.

Vision

Below is a very rough draft to serve as a starting point for discussion. See Vision notes for a more full list of ideas. We'll try to rewrite this tomorrow morning after a night's sleep.

3 year vision

The school server has the potential to amplify the Teacher, Parent & Librarian, as a laptop can amplify a Student's potential:

1. Promotes quality content from all.

2. Facilitates collaboration between Students, Teachers & Mentors.

3. Provides connectivity to the global Internet.

4. Simplifies student device maintenance.

1 year vision

The school server project will be a healthy stand alone project, which can be implemented directly, or adapted for special situations by 3rd parties.

1. Quarterly releases while the project is being tested and used by early adopters.

2. Emphasis on working code, modularity, and core services.

3. 100 hack implementers, at least 4 deployments with the potential for 10,000 users.

4. Feedback, fix, finished product.

Getting there

0.1 Objectives 0.1 Stable

1. Working install process, build process, and core services on a single piece of hardware.

2. Self discipline to determine what should be included in 0.1 and what should be included in future releases.

3. Establish a culture of "Feedback, fix, finished product".

0.2 Objectives 0.2 Draft

1. Build on self-disipline learned in 0.1

2. Initial modularity. I.E. must deal with different hardware configurations at install time.

3. Atomic tasks coordinated by regular releases.

4. Extend "Feedback, fix, finished product" loop to include remote developers and testers.

0.3+ Objectives (Need to sort out between 0.3 and 0.4+)

1. Targeted Features/Objectives

• Modularity
• GUI
• XO-4, F18 support
• XO-1.5 support (get around the kernel usb-ethernet dongle bug)
• External USB disk
• 1 to N webdav
• XSCE on XO image
• Working with 2 Ethernet dongles
• ejabberd roster admin
• Stastics collection (sugar-client stuff)
• dansguardian
• DNS filtering
• Script to connect to OPENVPN
• Consideration of other devices (Androis, Kindle, iPods, iPads)

2. Content services

• Pathagar
• Moodle
• Khan Academy
• Mediawiki
• Content curation (as opposed to dumping stuff into Apache directories)

3. "Feedback, fix, finished product" among a dozen testers, doggone dogfooding.

Getting Started

Get Started Using (advanced administrators)

Get Started Hacking (developers wanting to contribute)

Design

Design documents: Design Document, Use cases, and Release Priorities

FAQ

Original OLPC XS design and implementation available at OLPC School Server

Legacy 2013 DRAFT Install Recipe for XO-1.75 (ARM). Larger servers will be supported too, soon.
Legacy 2012 DRAFT Install Recipe for XO-1.5 (i386), XO-1.75 (ARM) and larger servers. Other Fedora 17+ platforms later. Prefab USB images for offline install should also later be provided, for XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. XO-1 is NOT supported as memory/disk are insufficient.

Participating

Report bugs and feature requests to https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xs-config

Direct questions and comments to the Mailing list at: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel or the irc channel #schoolserver on irc.freenode.net

Weekly voice meeting are held on Skype 8PM NYC Time on Thursdays (email if you want to join)

24 hour support available at: holt @ laptop.org, Sridhar Dhanapalan (video)

Contributors

• Jerry Vonau (SW architecture)
• George Hunt (configuration, GUI, low-power HW)
• Tim Moody (documentation, testing)
• Anna Schoolfield (testing, content)
• Rodrigo Hartmann (security, GUI, maintainability, intl languages)
• Alex Kleider (bookserver)
• David Rodríguez Álvarez & many more!

Related Projects

• http://localfi.org
• http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network

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, hopefully spring 2013)

Jan 2013 Agenda

Proposed Core Spec and Priority Tuning

Feb 2013 Agenda

Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11, please RSVP today! (holt @ laptop.org)

Mch 2013 Agenda

Pre-field testing (eg. Flint, Michigan), possible Boston meetup Mch 1-4.

Apr 2013 Agenda

Toronto-area Sprint Apr 25-29?