I am not real ambitious regarding the XS documentation for next week. A simple guide to installing a school server simply for the purposes of the network would be a great step forward. This is enough to enable a classroom to get started. Backup and other services can come later.
-walter On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Chris Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Anne Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> Thanks for the feedback. You bring up very good points. >> >> > The School Server needs a complete documentation package: >> > - Installation Guide >> > - Administrator's Guide >> > - Troubleshooting >> > >> > We already have two separate User's Guides for the laptop, but nothing >> > for the school server... (We could say the same about the software!) > > > While I think some prominent mention of XS SchoolServer in this > effort certainly seems like a good idea to encourage more experimentation > with it (acknowledging that a large part of the audience for this doc > will, in it's first version, be new) G1G1 donors). However, I would agree > with Christoph's comment that extensive documentation on XS SchoolServer may > need to be deferred for a number of reasons: > > 1) I suspect you will really need to engage Martin Langhoff (XS developer) > to get the best documentation of where XS SchoolServer is now and where it > is going in the near term (e.g. Moodle, etc.). > > 2) The documentation on the XS on the wiki at the moment is a mix of > operational (e.g. mesh) and aspirational (e.g. back-up). There seems to be > rapid and recent development going on to realize some of the promise of the > XS ( see for example recent work on back-up > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ds-backup ); but without the direct involvement of > Martin Langhoff and/or M Stone OR a lot of testing with a live SchoolServer > set-up, it may be challenging to sort through what is currently functional > and what is still being implemented. > > Another aspect of this is that the SchoolServer documentation may naturally > want to live as an appendix to Walter's Deployment Guide > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide . I am certainly in favor of work > being done to enhance and improve the excellent start made there. Again, I > think that may be best accomplished by dragooning in folks from real world > deployments (Oceania, Nepal, Peru, Uruguay, etc.) that would have some > valuable experience to contribute to the practical aspects of XS deployment > and maintenance. That sort of coordination seems to be out-of-scope for the > current effort, but I think the "hooks" should be left in place to tie the > 8.2 (single or small group) XO-based Sugar documentation being developed at > the Jam into future efforts, which is, of course, part of the beauty of > using the FLOSS platform for this effort. > > cjl > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
