XS Conf 08 MAR 25 Agenda

The first XS Conference will be held on Tuesday March 25th 11 AM US EST. You can find the timezone difference between EST and your own timezone at World TimeServer

Bryan Berry will record the meeting minutes and IRC log

The meeting will take place at IRC channel X and call-in number ????

Background

Martin Langhoff has recently joined OLPC as the School Server Architect. In this meeting he plans to lay out his roadmap for the School Server and get feedback/suggestions from field implementers and other stakeholders. Please read through the roadmap prior to the meeting to make it more productive for all attendees.

Meeting Goals

• Come to consensus on most important features for 0.2 and 0.3 releases
• Implementers from a variety of deployment sites convey their most urgent needs to Martin
• Implementers get a clear sense of the Roadmap

Agenda

1. Short introductions from participants
2. Martin talks about the roadmap in detail
3. Reactions to roadmap from participants
4. Discussion of Requirements and Use Cases
   • 1st World
   • 2nd World
   • Developing World
5. Technology Choices
   1. Software - stick w/ Fedora or eventually move to Debian :)
      • XS Services - Moodle, Mediawiki, Blogging?
      • Administration Interface
   2. Hardware - Custom hardware or commodity servers? What's available in your country?
6. Documentation - State of current documentation and suggested guidelines?
7. Discuss working modality for the XS Team, monthly teleconferences? How can implementers best help the XS development team?