XS Community Edition/5.0

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Synopsis

Building off the success of XSCE 0.4, we hope with v0.5, the glass will officially become half-full :}

Thank you for considering the brand new version 0.5 of XS Community Edition expected early in 2014. It will likely move well beyond 0.4's focus on reliability and configurability on XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4. It should certainly expand vital communities around x86, x86-64 (coming), Trim-Slice common in low-power/off-grid deployments, and this year's hot new $25-35 Raspberry Pi computers.

Its spec document will be refined Oct 21-23 in San Francisco. Please strongly consider contributing to the purpose and architecture of the upcoming XS Community Edition 0.5 -- starting with this open-community planning document you can add suggestions to here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FVUFl6vry8u9b_lNSXvcWKN6hgVB-7Je4aTBpvq0QVg

Thanks for suggestions from all! Similar to XSCE 0.4, we will certainly continue to advance content options including the world's greatest free and remixable knowledge from Internet-in-a-Box and the Pathagar ebooks library to organize your school's ebooks.

And in the end, 0.5 like 0.4 will seek to enhance possibilities for end users, deployers, and developers, while keeping support for mainstay XS services we've come to expect

How is XSCE 0.5 coming together since Sept 2013?

Look through its spec and community efforts below, as well as XSCE's General FAQ.

• San Francisco Design/Hacking "Crystallization Sprint" will be Oct 21-23 2013. All are invited, we just ask that all RSVP with their expected contribution, thanks!
• The /Spec is not yet ready as late Sept / early Oct 2013: as such all are strongly encouraged to contribute suggestions and strategic/tactical directions. We will pull these together during San Francisco's Oct 21-23 Sprint mentioned immediately above.
• Our /Road Map is emerging in coming weeks, during San Francisco's Sprint, becoming even more precise during Malaysia's "Culmination Sprint" Nov 18-20, 2013.

Thanks for thinking how we & others can refine this for in the autumn of 2013 for Version 0.5 !

Placeholder links

• Installing
• Testing
• Configuring (Work In Progress)
• Hacking

School Server Recap

A community school server provides communication, networking, content, and maintenance to a school and/or classroom. In everyday usage the school server provides services extending capabilities of the connected laptops, enhancing teacher-child-parent relationships. In general, these services include:

• Classroom connectivity – Similar to what you would find in an advanced home router.
• Internet gateway – If available, an internet connection is made available to laptops.
• Content - Tools for deployments and teachers to make instructional media available to their schools and classrooms.
• Maintenance - Tools to keep laptops updated and running smoothly.