XS Community Edition/5.0

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Please try out XSCE 0.5 RC released Dec 17, 2013!

Synopsis

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

Its spec was refined Oct 21-23 in San Francisco.

Rolling list of proposals / open-community planning:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FVUFl6vry8u9b_lNSXvcWKN6hgVB-7Je4aTBpvq0QVg

Summarized & contextualized by Tony Anderson here:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-October/006837.html

Some early docs are evolving here:
https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/tree/master/docs

In conclusion, most of the above proposes features will await future versions, as XSCE 0.5 focuses on Ansible progress (click for chart) summarized below.

XSCE 0.5 Evolution Since Sept 2013

Look through its spec and community efforts, as well as XSCE's General FAQ. How we evolved:

• /Project_Specifications was quite naturally evolving in late Sept / early Oct 2013, eg. inviting suggestions and strategic/tactical directions. We pulled these together during...
• San Francisco Design/Hacking "Crystallization Sprint" was Oct 21-23 2013, with contributions from many in person and from afar!
• /Road Map was tuned during San Francisco's and after Sprint, becoming even more precise during Malaysia's "Culmination Sprint" Nov 18-20, 2013.

Thanks for thinking: how all can refine this Autumn 2013 baseline for future versions!

Conversion of Install Mechanism to Ansible

A major goal of the 0.5 release is converting the xs-config rpm based install to an ansible playbook.

Progress in this conversion is tracked here.

Placeholder links (for later)

• Installing
• Testing
• Configuring
• 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.