Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-12 Thread David Farning
I apologize to Tony, George and any others confused by this thread. I am still learning how to balance my various roles and responsibility to the project and ecosystem. In the back ground, Tony and I have been having a separate thread searching for areas of mutual value between XSCE and the deploy

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I think this should be done in the overall context of XSCE as proposed by David Farning. I think of what I am doing as a system and not as isolated pieces. The ds-backup is independent because it only addresses backup and restore of the Journal. However, this is going to become more a sys

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread George Hunt
Hi Tony, When you sent me your ds-backup script to migrate student datastore to the server based upon the "favorite" star in the journal, I downloaded the olpc repo, and added your version as a branch, and uploaded it to https://github.com/georgejhunt/ds-backup/blob/ds_on_xs/client/ds-backup.py. T

[Server-devel] XSCE Sprint day 4.

2013-07-11 Thread David Farning
A brief update. George and Jerry made progress getting IIaB to run on the XSCE. It is running, but needs some clean up. Braddock has been a great help. -- Thanks Braddock Santi and Ruben have been testing the new hardware which arrived yesterday. Ubuntu 12.04 runs out of the box. They are trying

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread David Leeming
devel@lists.laptop.org; George Hunt; David Farning; Jerry Vonau Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint Hi, Thanks again. The laptops are good to go for this school year (12.1.0). I will be able to work the collection stick problem when I return to the schools (probably in December). I'

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread David Farning
Thanks for this thread Creating a place to share and record this knowledge is as important as the code! On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks again. The laptops are good to go for this school year (12.1.0). I > will be able to work the collection stick proble

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Thanks again. The laptops are good to go for this school year (12.1.0). I will be able to work the collection stick problem when I return to the schools (probably in December). I'll double check the flash time to check for variability between units. At these schools all the laptops are XO

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:07:04AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks again for this! > > What I gather is that we should use Nandblast from an XO for > reflash. For a time it was not supported for XO-1.5, but my current > understanding is that it supported for all versions of XO. Up t

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, On 07/10/2013 02:07 PM, David Farning wrote: Pathagar is based on Django. The digital library on the school servers in >Rwanda and Lesotho is based on the same technology but supports any item >with a recognized mime-type. The issue is how to organize the contents so >that it can be easily a

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-10 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > This is in response to your comments. > > > There have been recent conversations with the Trimslice manufacturer, to > get a version which has 2-4GB memory, quad core processor, and 2 ethernet > connections. > > Great! It appears comp

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Thanks again for this! What I gather is that we should use Nandblast from an XO for reflash. For a time it was not supported for XO-1.5, but my current understanding is that it supported for all versions of XO. In Lesotho, the flash was taking 15min from boot to reboot for registration.

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-10 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:11:14AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: > The 'locked' XO problem derives from XOs distributed in the minimum > 100 XO purchase - many of these are locked. Also, in Rwanda the > policy is to keep the laptops locked even though they have > indefinite leases. Rwanda probably h

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Thanks for the update. The 'locked' XO problem derives from XOs distributed in the minimum 100 XO purchase - many of these are locked. Also, in Rwanda the policy is to keep the laptops locked even though they have indefinite leases. My current plans are to visit these schools in December

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-10 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 09:33:29AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: > The flash level needs to be handled by the firmware. I believe the > firmware is capable of obtaining the image from a network. This is > where the 'lock' is invoked so the trick will be to find out how to > do this for locked XOs. Y

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, This is in response to your comments. There have been recent conversations with the Trimslice manufacturer, to get a version which has 2-4GB memory, quad core processor, and 2 ethernet connections. Great! It appears comparable products based on the new Intel Atom chips may not be available

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE sprint update day 0 and day 1

2013-07-09 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks David for writing daily reports on our http://schoolserver.org/0.4/Sprint progress and I apologize to all our 1st voice call was choppy yesterday, due to our untested 3G backwoods modem. Working better now! So daily 3PM EDT voice calls (3PM NYC time on Skype) should be smoother today and i

[Server-devel] XSCE sprint update day 0 and day 1

2013-07-09 Thread David Farning
We are safely locked away in cabin in Gimli, Manitoba ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli,_Manitoba ) We have been going through a couple days of reflection. Sometimes painful, but always useful. It feels like many of the big technical pieces are coming together. Now, we are in that awkward adole