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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 and content capabilities of connected laptops.

Getting Started with XSCE 0.3 pre-alpha

Get started by downloading and installing the current XSCE version.

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/0.3/Testing Also: let's start talking about testing 0.4 in June!

Report bugs and feature requests to https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xsce

IRC (community chat) channel #schoolserver at busy times on irc.freenode.net

Weekly voice meeting are held on Skype 8PM "2PM" NYC Time Thursdays. (Please email if you want to join so we can add you to the call.)

Human contact: holt @ laptop.org

Upcoming version of XSCE 0.4

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 or you can use the repo definition http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce-devel.repo

Vision for XSCE

Learn more about the long term goals at XSCE Vision.

Design

Add a Service to School Server by Creating a Plugin (original written April 2013)

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

Original OLPC XS design and implementation available at OLPC School Server

Legacy 2013 Install Recipe for XO-1.75 (ARM), using Fedora 17.
Legacy 2012 Install Recipe for XO-1.5 (i386), XO-1.75 (ARM), using Fedora 17.

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

Aug 2013 Agenda

"Sun Jul 28 - Fri Aug 2" v0.4 hack sprint 1hr north of Winnipeg?!

Jul 2013 Agenda

v0.4 spec gaining precision, bringing stability & configurability to most XOs, RPi, x86, 64-bit Fedora

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!

May 2013 Agenda

Toronto-area Sprint May 8-13. Working in person with Braddock Gaskill all the way from LA, of http://internet-in-a-box.org ! V0.3 code-freeze May 13; release May 26?

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

March 2013 Agenda

Boston meetup Mch 1-4 with Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal. Early pre-field test in Haiti.

Feb 2013 Agenda

Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11.

Release of XSCE 0.1 Stable and 0.2 Coming.

Jan 2013 Agenda

Proposed Core Spec and Priority Tuning

Dec 2012 Agenda

Jamaica implementation sprint (delayed)

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.

Oct 2012 Agenda

Working w/ Alex Kleider's model classroom @ http://olpcSF.org/summit & http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012

Sep 2012 Agenda

Toronto area hack sprint Sept 16-23, incl public demo Saturday Sept 22.