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Welcome to the School Server - Community Edition (XS-CE) project. XS-CE is a school or classroom based server which extends the communication capabilities of connected laptops.
Getting Started with XS-CE
Get started by downloading and installing the current XS-CE version .
Getting Help with XS-CE
Direct questions/comments to mailing list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Testing would be WONDERFUL. Are we tough enough? Start here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2/Test_Plan Also: let's start talking about testing 0.3 in May!
Report bugs and feature requests to https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xs-config
IRC (community chat) channel #schoolserver at busy times on irc.freenode.net
Weekly voice meeting are held on Skype 4PM/8PM NYC Time Thursdays (email if you want to join)
Human contact: holt @ laptop.org
Upcoming version of XS-CE
Learn more about the short term goals for the upcoming XS-CE version .
Vision for of XS-CE
Learn more about the long term goals at XS-CE Vision .
Design
Design documents: Design Document, Use cases, and Release Priorities. See also latest Spec and Roadmap within the above.
Original OLPC XS design and implementation available at OLPC School Server
Legacy 2013 Install Recipe for XO-1.75 (ARM).
Legacy 2012 Install Recipe for XO-1.5 (i386), XO-1.75 (ARM) and larger servers. Other Fedora 17+ platforms later.
Contributors
- Jerry Vonau (SW architecture)
- George Hunt (configuration, GUI, low-power HW)
- Tim Moody (documentation, testing)
- Anna Schoolfield (testing, content/ebooks curation platforms)
- Anish Mangal (integration, offline cloud)
- Rodrigo Hartmann (security, GUI, maintainability, intl languages)
- David Farning (software engineering tips)
- Alex Kleider (bookserver)
- David Rodríguez Álvarez (web design)
- Rubén Rodríguez (Linux/Trisquel advisor)
- Adam Holt (documentation, community coordination & outreach)
- Professor Sameer Verma (free/open advisor & user)
- Sridhar Dhanapalan (video) & many more!
- Nitika Mangal (QA Manager in India)
- [LINK-NEEDED Santiago Collazo]
Related Projects
- http://librarybox.us by Jason Griffey & All (map shows 25 locations)
- http://internet-in-a-box.org by Braddock Gaskill
- http://localfi.org by Caryl Bigenho, Sebastian Silva & All
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network by Aleksey Lim
- http://github.com/open-learning-exchange/BeLL-System by http://OLE.org
History
Sep 2012 Agenda
Toronto area hack sprint Sept 16-23, incl public demo Saturday Sept 22.
Oct 2012 Agenda
Working w/ Alex Kleider's model classroom @ http://olpcSF.org/summit & http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012
Nov 2012 Agenda
Centred around Toronto area hack sprint Nov 10-18:
Expand testing+UX with Anna Schoolfield, Tim Moody & Seneca College students' packaging with York Univ/Seneca College Professor Chris Tyler.
Meet with Anish Mangal and Nathan Riddle near Detroit etc to discuss wider community integration.
Dec 2012 Agenda
Jamaica implementation sprint (delayed)
Jan 2013 Agenda
Proposed Core Spec and Priority Tuning
Feb 2013 Agenda
Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11.
Release of XS-CE 0.1 Stable and 0.2 Coming.
Mch 2013 Agenda
Boston meetup Mch 1-4 with Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal. Early pre-field test in Haiti.
Apr 2013 Agenda
Prep v0.3 May sprint. Los Angeles interfacing with Caryl Bigenho's http://localfi.org and Braddock Gaskill's http://internet-in-a-box.org
May 2013 Agenda
Toronto-area Sprint May 8-13. Version 0.3 enters code-freeze May 13.
Jun 2013 Agenda
Volunteers will be able to buy XO-4 Touch and Raspberry Pis if they will help test XSCE & http://internet-in-a-box.org etc!
Jul 2013 Agenda
v0.4 spec coming intro view, running on many/most kinds of XOs, RPi, and Big Iron?