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Welcome to the School Server Community Edition (XSCE, or http://schoolserver.org) project, where volunteer professionals are taking the One Laptop Per Child movement into a new decade. It all starts with XSCE, a simple school or classroom-based server, which greatly extends the communication and content capabilities of connected laptops.

Getting Started with XSCE 0.3

Get started by downloading and installing the latest: XSCE 0.3 was released June 6, 2013.

Getting Help with XSCE

Our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is growing here.

Direct questions/comments to mailing list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Testing would be WONDERFUL. Are we tough enough? Start here: 0.3 Also: let's start start testing 0.4!

Report bugs and feature requests to https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xsce

IRC (community chat) channel #schoolserver at busy times on irc.freenode.net

Weekly Skype call at 2PM NYC Time Thursdays. Agenda Please email if you want to join so we can add you to the call.

Human contact: holt @ laptop.org

Upcoming version of XSCE 0.4

Learn more about the short term goals for the upcoming XSCE version.

Latest bleeding-edge RPM builds, at your own risk: http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce/devel or you can use the repo definition http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce-devel.repo

Vision for XSCE

Learn more about the long term goals at XSCE Vision.

Design

Add a Service to School Server by Creating a Plugin (original written April 2013).

Older Design documents: Design Document, Use cases, and Release Priorities.

Original OLPC XS design and implementation available at OLPC School Server.

Contributors

Related Projects

History

Oct 2013 Agenda

v0.5 hack sprint expected, near Toronto.

Sep 2013 Agenda

Haiti implementation of 0.4 at two schools, for the new school year.

Aug 2013 Agenda

Hard work continues strengthening 0.4 for final release. Prep for Haiti implementation late Aug and early Sept?

Jul 2013 Agenda

v0.4 Sprint July 8-12, 1hr north of Winnipeg. v0.4 spec gaining precision, bringing stability & configurability to most XOs, x86, 64-bit Fedora, RPi? Pathagar bookserver & Internet-in-a-Box integration also expected.

Jun 2013 Agenda

Version 0.3 released! Prep July sprint! Volunteers should soon be able to buy XO-4 Touch Laptops if they will help test XSCE & http://internet-in-a-box.org etc.

May 2013 Agenda

Very successful Toronto-area Sprint May 8-13,with Braddock Gaskill all the way from LA! 0.3 RC1 unleashed May 14; RC2 May 28? India prototype installed.

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.

Mch 2013 Agenda

Boston meetup Mch 1-4 with Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal. Early pre-field test connects an orphanage from Haiti.

Feb 2013 Agenda

Toronto/Waterloo area Sprint Feb 6/7 to 10/11.

Release of XSCE 0.1 Stable and 0.2 Coming.

Jan 2013 Agenda

Proposed Core Spec and Priority Tuning.

Dec 2012 Agenda

Jamaica implementation sprint (delayed).

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.

Oct 2012 Agenda

Working w/ Alex Kleider's model classroom @ http://olpcSF.org/summit & http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012.

Sep 2012 Agenda

Toronto area hack sprint Sept 16-23, incl public demo Saturday Sept 22.

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