XS Community Edition/Features

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Overview

This is a set of dynamic lists of features for XS Community Edition ranging from items already implemented, to items currently under development, to wishlist items.

The lists reflect the current release, 5.0, as of February 2014 and make reference to planned releases. They are also meant to be more of a catalog than a full description or documentation of these features, some of which may be found elsewhere within this wiki.

Features Implemented

Feature	Description	Notes
Network Infrastructure
Network Configuration	The School Server discovers the network adapters present and configures them automatically. It assigns host and domain names.	The ability to override this configuration is planned.
DHCP Server	The School Server can supply IP addresses to XOs and other machines on the LAN.	This is an optional feature.
Gateway Services	The School Server can act as a firewall and as a gateway to the internet and other machines on the WAN for machines on the LAN.	This is an optional feature.
DNS Services	The School Server can provide name resolution for XOs and other machines on the LAN.	This is an optional feature.
Internet Content Filtering
Squid	Squid caches internet content to lessen traffic and filters by destination.	Installed by default.
Dansguardian	Dansguardian filters internet content by keyword.	Installed by default.
Wondershaper	Wondershaper filters internet traffic by bandwidth.	Installed by default.
Services for OLPC XO Clients
Identity Manager	The School Server supports the OLPC XO functionality to register with the server for backup and collaboration.	Requires client functionality.
Collaboration Services	The School Server has an ejabberd server which controls centralized collaboration.	Requires client functionality.
Backup	The School Server permits XOs to upload journal files as a backup.	Requires client functionality.
Download Activities	The School Server has an option to load sugar activities and a link to download them to an XO.	Requires client functionality.
Content Infrastructure
Apache Web Server	The Apache Web Server is used by numerous services and is available for html content.	Installed by default.
PHP	PHP is used by numerous services and is available for custom content.	Installed by default.
Python	Python is used by numerous services and is available for custom content.	Installed by default.
Authentication Server	Authentication Server provides centralized authentication for server based applications.	Installed by default.
Content and Educational Applications
Portal	The portal or home page of the server contains localized links to content on the server.	Installed by default.
Moodle	Moodle is an open source Learning Management System.	Installed by default.
Internet-in-a-Box	Internet-in-a-Box is a copy of some of the most important material on the internet, such as the Wikipedia, stored locally.	Installed by default.
Pathagar	Pathagar is an ebook server which supports a variety of electronic publishing standards.	Installed by default.
Custom	The server contains a library folder in which can be placed custom educational files that will appear on the portal.	Installed by default.
Assessment and Monitoring
Monit	Monit monitors running services and restarts them if they shut down.	Installed by default.
Ajenti	Ajenti provides a Graphical Interface to administer technical aspects of the School Server.	Installed by default.
Munin	Munin collects performance statistics and generates graphs of them.	Installed by default.
Stats Server	Stats Server collects statistics on usage of the School Server.	Installed by default.
Developer Tools
Ansible	As of 5.0 ansible is the install mechanism and means for developers to add to the project.	An rpm can also be produced.

Features Planned

Please add features to this list and/or sign up to implement one of the features listed.

These features have detailed subpages. If you add a feature, you should also create a similar page to describe it and track progress on its implementation.

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Feature	Owner	Target Release	Status
Refactor Networking	Santi	5.1	PR Expected. Soft code IP addresses, hostname, etc.
Variable Override	Tim	5.1	Create override_vars.yml to hold custom values for IP, etc.
Refactor Networking II	Santi	5.1	Substitute dnsmasq for bind/dhcpd
Command Line Scripts	Jerry	5.1	Implement xsce-setup, xsce-network-setup, xsce-runtag, etc.
Offline Install	George	5.1	Allow file or local lan source for install
SDcard formating	George	5.1	If a blank SD card is in XO, make it /library
Restructure Ansible Roles	Santi, Tim	5.1	Add several aggregate roles to segregate functionality.
Modify Munin Graphs to On Demand	Tim	5.1	Change config to use cgi
Sugar Journal Visualization (XOvis)	Martin Dluhos	5.1	Add an Ansible role to include Couch visualization application XOvis
OpenVPN	George	5.1	Merge George's playbook into master
MySQL	George	5.1	Required for elgg
elgg	George	5.1 or 6.0	A social networkiing platform with many plugins
vnstat	George	5.1	Simple text mode network accumulators
SD Card Registration	TK Kang	5.5	Ongoing Development
3G Support	Basanta Shrestha	6.0	Ongoing Development
Authorization Framework	George Hunt	6.0	Ongoing Development
Automatic Network Configuration	Jerry Vonau	6.0	Ongoing Development
Better ARM Support	Jon Nettleton	6.0	Ongoing Development
Email Server	NO ONE	6.0	Needs an Implementer and a Design
Management Gui	Miguel González Álvarez	6.0	50% done
Power Management	Jon Nettleton	6.0	Ongoing Development
Printer Gui	NO ONE	6.0	Needs an Implementer
School Information Network	Martin Dluhos	6.0	Needs an Implementer
Screen Sharing	George Hunt	6.0	Experiments
Startup Sound	?	6.0	Not Clear
User Management Framework	Tony Anderson	6.0	Ongoing Development
User Portal Localization	Tim Moody, Tony Anderson	6.0	Server side framework done, needs additional translations and client side
Audience response system	Santi	6.0	Ongoing Development
Online editor	Santi	6.0	Ongoing Development
Add Ability to Turn Off Service in Ansible	NO ONE	6.0	Needs an Implementer
Sugarizer on Server	NO ONE	6.0	Needs an Implementer
RACHEL on Server	NO ONE	6.0	Needs an Implementer
Webmaker.org Toolkit on Server	NO ONE	6.0	Needs an Implementer

Wish List

There have been a variety of Wish Lists produced over the years in the wiki, via documents, and over email. Here are some references. Ideally we will get to a consolidated list.

• Deployment Wishlist

• Nepal Wish List