XS Conf 08 AUG 07 Meeting

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Time: Thursday 10PM US ET, 7:45AM Nepal - and Friday 2PM in NZ: http://worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner-times.aspx?&L0=NZ&L1=NP&L2=GB&L3=US-MA&L4=&Day=8&Mon=8&Y=2008

Where?

The main location will be irc.freenode.net #olpc-meeting -- I would also recommend having Gobby installed, as we may try to use that.

If we're really few and people have skype we can try that too.

  • Martin's skype id is martin_langhoff

Agenda

General development

  • xs-0.4 progress and goals - target date: 25th Aug 2008
  • xs-0.5 goals - target date: end of sept
  • New install vs upgrades
  • USB disk
    • Desirable usage scenarios... ("plug a hd with a special signature to backup user data?")
    • Tailing logs...
  • Fedora 9 upgrade - blockers and work to do
  • Getting Moodle & webapps on XS
  • How do we identify teachers?
  • Disaster Recovery -- RAID or not to RAID?
  • Challenges in deployments (Peru, Rwanda)
    • Many requests for VoIP, IM from teachers
    • If teachers don't have use for XS, it won't be taken care of according to our experience in Nepal Berrybw 11:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Nepal team

  • Customized Nepali version of Moodle
  • Mail server using Squirrel Mail
  • Setting up a local version of Nepal's E-Library on the XS, a copy of Nepal's current E-Library http://pustakalaya.olenepal.org which uses the open-source fedora-commons repository software.
  • Connecting schools through ejabberd


Minutes

TBA

IRC Log

TBA