[Server-devel] July 8-12 XSCE v0.4 sprint confirmed in Manitoba

2013-06-04 Thread Adam Holt
*XS Community Edition Hacking days being all day weekdays Mon July 8 thru-and-incl Fri July 12! *Please arrive in Winnipeg *Sunday July 7, prior to dinnertime if possible*. Please depart Winnipeg *Saturday July 13, around Noon if possible*. Driving/flight/train/bus options are all possible

Re: [Server-devel] July 8-12 XSCE v0.4 sprint confirmed in Manitoba

2013-06-04 Thread Adam Holt
Sprint page is now live -- thanks all for contributing suggestions on-list or on-wiki here: http://schoolserver.org/0.4/Sprint On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: *XS Community Edition Hacking days being all day weekdays Mon July 8 thru-and-incl Fri July 12

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks you so much for asking Braddock -- importing/exporting/sync'ing large number of books for real-world libraries are too easily dismissed as curatorial gardening! Thankfully there was mention on today's call that http://calibre-ebook.comwas perfect for this job of large school libraries, but

[Server-devel] XS Community Edition weekly meeting announcement (Thurs 2PM NYC Time)

2013-07-03 Thread Adam Holt
Just wanted to give anyone interested in participating in the XS Community Edition project a reminder of the weekly, currently meeting Thursdays 2PM NYC Time. The meetings are on Skype so we can hear the tone and timbre of each others' voices. Please see agenda/minutes at:

[Server-devel] live-from-Sprint XSCE calls (3PM NYC Time) every weekday this week!

2013-07-08 Thread Adam Holt
Plz reply with your Skype username and/or see you on the #schoolserver channel at irc.freenode.net -- EG with direct access to this chat backchannel via http://webchat.freenode.net Sprint agenda/organization around defining and deliver XSCE 0.4 (hopefully including http://internet-in-a-box.org

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

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] XSCE Update day 3

2013-07-10 Thread Adam Holt
Chris, I'll contact you within about 10 days when this takes shape with the crucial words/phrases from the GUI buttons of http://internet-in-a-box.org Sure I could have French/Haitian Creole/Spanish translators do these let's-say-300-words-total translations overnight, but I'd rather use

Re: [Server-devel] Community Schoolserver Sprint Video Wrapup: Saturday 10AM NYC Time!

2013-07-13 Thread Adam Holt
Google limits us to 10 simultaneous video participants, please be patient viewing the live feed if we reach this limit, and Thanks Much *for Attending this Progressive Discussion!!* On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: This intensive weeklong XSCE sprint (School Server

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to upgrade XO 1.5 firmware. Says activation lease not found

2013-07-18 Thread Adam Holt
Kevin, Can you clarify what OS+exact firmware your XO-1.5 has, and what OS+exact firmware you're trying to get to? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_check_the_OS_and_firmware_versions On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] Attempting to upgrade XO 1.5 firmware. Says activation lease not found

2013-07-19 Thread Adam Holt
Yes, I've many links to Quozl's work. But let's not also forget Wad Inc's comprehensive work here :) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_Guide On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:56 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: WOW that is the best... and most concise list I have

[Server-devel] Aug 1: OLPC France gives us ALL an OLPC Chance

2013-07-29 Thread Adam Holt
A handful of idealistic Frenchies built a stronger implementation/contributors/fundraising volunteer community than possibly all other countries, but how? Supporting an actual island village in Madagascar with solar-powered inter-island Wifi? What on earth's behind this FranXOfrique

[Server-devel] Fri Aug 2: OLPC France gives us ALL an OLPC Chance

2013-07-30 Thread Adam Holt
24hr delay, France will make you Dance, Friday 11AM NYC Time! Revised Announcements: http://planet.laptop.org http://olpcnews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A handful of idealistic Frenchies built a stronger

Re: [Server-devel] Fri Aug 2: OLPC France gives us ALL an OLPC Chance

2013-08-02 Thread Adam Holt
Starting live momentarily this Friday morning 11AM NYC time, France will make you Dance! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A handful of idealistic Frenchies built a stronger implementation/contributors/fundraising volunteer community than

Re: [Server-devel] XS to become XSCE???

2013-08-06 Thread Adam Holt
I shouldn't have to write a paragraph... There are many bibles in this world naturally. I go with proven experience --- asking volunteers to write a friendly paragraph has proven to be the singlemost effective community-building tool in my 6 years with OLPC, as people in the almost

Re: [Server-devel] XS to become XSCE???

2013-08-06 Thread Adam Holt
communities, and consider it done!!) On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: I shouldn't have to write a paragraph... There are many bibles in this world naturally. I go with proven experience --- asking volunteers to write a friendly paragraph has proven

[Server-devel] last minute requests for XSCE 0.4 RC1?

2013-08-12 Thread Adam Holt
Release is anticipated this Thursday -- so Anna Schoolfield many others can bang on it -- in short, please shout now if something's unclear! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.4/Road_Map George updated the spec Saturday, but others should chime in if there's something missing /

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21

2013-08-17 Thread Adam Holt
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 07:40 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: By the way, the need for the school server is closer to 50 hours per week than 24/7. Normally it needs to be booted only during the hours when children are in school.

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 22

2013-08-17 Thread Adam Holt
Indeed, some of Haitian schools have Internet and some don't: Braddock's Internet-in-a-Box team has made a world of difference. So in the end, the many Haitian schools I speak with are generally all are interesting in keeping their Digital Libraries open (i.e. accessible, and turned on) for

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21

2013-08-17 Thread Adam Holt
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Braddock bradd...@braddock.com wrote: From: David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com We have just received confirmation that compulab won't be releasing a SATA connector with the utilite. ( http://utilite-computer.com/web/home ) Instread they will offer

[Server-devel] It's An Etoys Project! [LIVE, Monday 12 Noon NYC Time]

2013-08-18 Thread Adam Holt
Who can remember the early years of OLPC, when Etoys was considered as the kids' operating system for all XO laptops, prior to Sugar? Come learn the true story behind this powerful ongoing adventure, that arose from Alan Kay's infamous 1972 Dynabook demo, and whose legacy continues as Etoys today

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21

2013-08-18 Thread Adam Holt
, August 17, 2013, Adam Holt wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Braddock bradd...@braddock.com wrote: From: David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com We have just received confirmation that compulab won't be releasing a SATA connector with the utilite. ( http://utilite-computer.com

Re: [Server-devel] It's An Etoys Project! [LIVE, Monday 12 Noon NYC Time]

2013-08-19 Thread Adam Holt
*Live in 40min:* thanks all for bringing serious questions to Rita Bert Freudenberg's kids-are-my-career experience ! On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Who can remember the early years of OLPC, when Etoys was considered as the kids' operating system for all

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE automatic login permission denied

2013-08-21 Thread Adam Holt
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:05 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: 0.4 might be a better idea at this stage. XSCE 0.4 RC1 is currently expected Friday if you can wait ~36hrs: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.4/Road_Map Testing matrix is here for those who want to

[Server-devel] Fwd: [UKids] Alternative School Server hardware

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Holt
From: Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 1:46 AM Subject: [UKids] Alternative School Server hardware To: unleashk...@googlegroups.com Just prior to the OLPC XO Tablet shakeup I was trying to work out a partnership with the guys that build the Cubox

Re: [Server-devel] ANNOUNCING School Server Community Edition Version 0.4 Release Candidate 1.

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Holt
Wow, it's been many months of hard-driving volunteer work, far beyond Friendly Manitoba, that seems so long ago in early July: https://plus.google.com/events/cosgiia7et0bvc7mmaeinv1ed40 http://blog.unleashkids.org/hangouts/school-server-sprint-hangout/ Who can please write the blog post to

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Rendrering maps on XO1 at Silar's Orphanage Haiti

2013-09-02 Thread Adam Holt
, and now you are paying for it? On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:33:32AM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: We're trying Release 12.1.0 in Haiti later today, thanks to Anna's careful testing confirming IIAB maps work there, that is if our expensive OS download to Haiti actually succeeds, without blowing up en

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-09-03 Thread Adam Holt
I'd much prefer Thursday on the same day as our voice meetings. Or was this separated by sev days for a reason? On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: Okay, so based on the responses I've received so far, all weekdays, and 1600 UTC seems like the best

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Rendrering maps on XO1 at Silar's Orphanage Haiti

2013-09-04 Thread Adam Holt
Recap if it helps: Firefox 3.6.23 on Gnome on OLPC Release 11.3.1 on XO-1 fails to load http://internet-in-a-box.org maps in exactly the same way as Browse-129.1 on the same (11.3.1) XO-1. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Braddock bradd...@braddock.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] School Server Special Interest Group at OLPC-SF

2013-09-05 Thread Adam Holt
Indeed, two very successful XSCE 0.4 RC1 / IIAB server installations here in Haiti over the past 10 days (at 2 very different schools) where George Hunt I learned more than we could have imagined. I'd encourage folks to use the following page as a scratchpad for school server ideas of all kind

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Wiki facelift :)

2013-09-18 Thread Adam Holt
More and more I've come to appreciate kickstarter pages conducive to exploring community products in 1 long page at your own pace, without a zillion subpages that realistically balkanizes navigability, community efforts, and last but not least edit histories. Just my opinion, influenced by Mike

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Information about the IRC bots added to the wiki

2013-09-25 Thread Adam Holt
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:32 AM, David Rodriguez davrod...@gmail.comwrote: As per yesterday's IRC conversation, I've just edited the XSCE wiki at http://v.gd/arogoh to add information about the IRC channel bots, and also made some changes to the Meetbot instance so it uses the channel status

[Server-devel] helping XSCE 0.5 ideas emerge ( road map possibility)

2013-09-25 Thread Adam Holt
*To keep these ideas organized as our design/hacking sprint approaches in 3+ weeks, please put all your XSCE 0.5 Desires, Ideas Suggestions into the hat here, so they are carefully considered: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FVUFl6vry8u9b_lNSXvcWKN6hgVB-7Je4aTBpvq0QVg * So far someone

Re: [Server-devel] [ANNOUNCE] XSCE-0.4 released!

2013-10-03 Thread Adam Holt
Huge Thanks Anna All! Our weekly voice call is only an hour away for those who want to join (Thurs 2PM NYC Time), send your Skype username if so, thanks all! On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone has been waiting patiently for the latest release of School

[Server-devel] Fwd: [XSCE] XSCE Wish List

2013-10-11 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks Tony for this comprehensive summary below prep'ing all for SF's XS(CE) sprint in 9 days! Original Wish List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FVUFl6vry8u9b_lNSXvcWKN6hgVB-7Je4aTBpvq0QVg Sprint Starting Line: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.5/Sprint On Fri, Oct 11,

[Server-devel] Fwd: [XSCE] xsce and ansible

2013-10-21 Thread Adam Holt
Sounds great Tim. Plz all remember to submit your GMail addresses to me if you want to be on the 1PM San Francisco Time Google Hangouts each of the 3 coming days (first one starts in exactly 4 hours!!) Upgrade to the New Google Hangouts if you want to avoid hassles (destroys Google Voice calls

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce and ansible

2013-10-21 Thread Adam Holt
CORRECTION: First of the daily GHangouts starts in exactly 90min. (Always at 1PM San Francisco Time) On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Sounds great Tim. Plz all remember to submit your GMail addresses to me if you want to be on the 1PM San Francisco Time

[Server-devel] XS(CE) voice call in 13hrs: Thurs 2PM NYC Time

2013-10-30 Thread Adam Holt
Agenda is so wonderfully calm with only 2.5 weeks left before our Malaysia summit/sprint! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg But don't hesitate to jot down forgotten needs above, newcomers all- (Send along your Skype username anyone who want to join

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: XSCE weekly voice call, 2PM NYC Time Thursday

2013-11-07 Thread Adam Holt
the minutes/call notes and make it to the next one. If there are questions on the call that you need my input on try IRC. I will kind of be online but can't be on a voice call as I will be on another one. -Jon On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Adam Holt h...@unleashkids.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 7

Re: [Server-devel] Does XSCE need a new Home?

2013-11-30 Thread Adam Holt
Backed up quasimonthly: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://schoolserver.org https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/FAQ

[Server-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Election Details for 2013-2014

2013-12-02 Thread Adam Holt
From: Luke Faraone l...@sugarlabs.org Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:43 PM Subject: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Election Details for 2013-2014 To: IAEP SugarLabs i...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Devel sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org Hi all, It's that time of year again: oversight board election season!

[Server-devel] 2PM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2013-12-05 Thread Adam Holt
See you in 2 hours; add to the DIY Agenda evolving quickly here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg Send your skype username or phone number if you can join, thanks! -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org

[Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2013-12-12 Thread Adam Holt
A warm welcome to the Asians/Australia-area folk we hope will increasingly join thanks to our new meeting time we're trying out 4hrs earlier, so we get much more Nepal/deployments' input from half the world's population! See you in 1h 15min; please now add to the DIY Agenda evolving quickly here:

[Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2013-12-19 Thread Adam Holt
See you in 20min for a very quick pre-Christmas look back / look forward, quite likely the last for 2013 until January 2nd so please now add to the DIY Agenda evolving here :) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg Send your skype username or phone number

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] IIAB/XSCE School Server

2013-12-19 Thread Adam Holt
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Braddock bradd...@braddock.com wrote: - -We finally have the full text Wikipedia search working, thanks to a lot of work by James McDuffie. Probably have a new dataset release shortly after Christmas. Amazing News. Do the maps render more cleanly south of

Re: [Server-devel] $400 computer for Haiti

2013-12-19 Thread Adam Holt
What about the $399.99 Inspiron 660s i3-DualCore-3.4GHz-3MB cache, 4GB RAM, 1TB 7200rpm, 2X USB 3.0? http://dell.com/us/p/inspiron-660s/pd Or the $499.99 Inspiron 660s i5-QuadCore-3.3GHz-8MB cache, 8GB RAM, 1TB 7200 rpm, 2X USB 3.0?

Re: [Server-devel] VirtualBox SchoolServer XSCE

2013-12-26 Thread Adam Holt
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Curt Thompson curtathomp...@gmail.comwrote: Here are the links to the VirtualBox SchoolServer I was testing out. This is still version 0.4, but should be able to be updated. Feel free to let me know of any other changes that should be made to it. I have 2

[Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2013-12-30 Thread Adam Holt
Seems some people forgot to take a Christmas/New Year/Etc break and we have an awful lot to talk about January 2nd, whether or not Cubox + XSCE 0.5 + Internet-in-a-Box will be sold at every Walmart in Haiti for $99, but perhaps not before Thursday arrives :-) See you then, 10AM NYC Time this

Re: [Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2014-01-01 Thread Adam Holt
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Seems some people forgot to take a Christmas/New Year/Etc break and we have an awful lot to talk about January 2nd, whether or not Cubox + XSCE 0.5 + Internet-in-a-Box will be sold at every Walmart in Haiti for $99

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: a kernel for our solidrun protos?

2014-01-03 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks Sameer, fyi George's XO-4 should arrive by Tues. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:47 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: On our skype call Thursday, Jon suggested using the XO4 config file as a base for getting all

[Server-devel] 2PM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2014-01-08 Thread Adam Holt
Our XSCE 0.5 servers are now close to deployment on $100+ Cubox, $200+ XOs and $400 i3-based Dells -- which do we choose to implement across so many Haiti schools starting later next week? Thanks all for joining Thursday's call to help us get this decision right! This week only, we're meeting

[Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2014-01-15 Thread Adam Holt
Six of us will soon be in Haiti implementing XSCE 5.0http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.5(*) and HaitiOS 0.7 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HaitiOS at a number of orphanages and schools, and would love to compare notes before we jet. We'll also discuss streamlining integration options

[Server-devel] constant power add-tag CP fails on XO-4?

2014-01-24 Thread Adam Holt
We've relied on this for many years on XO-1s and XO-1.75s (etc) to ensure small XO servers auto-boot after the inevitable power failures -- and yet today it (apparently) no longer works. Is it possible this does not work on XO-4s, or are we somehow entering add-tag CP incorrectly at the ok

[Server-devel] XSCE Thurs voice call 10AM NYC Time

2014-02-06 Thread Adam Holt
See you in 7 hrs, and please help carve out the agenda below -- beyond the 4 XSCE installations we now have running in Haiti, on 4 different kinds of server hardware -- that we will describe alongside some confounding Wifi results Terry Gillett has tested in great detail:

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Thurs voice call 10AM NYC Time

2014-02-06 Thread Adam Holt
, including several of the original OLPC developers / founding voices we've not seen in half a decade :-) On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: See you in 7 hrs, and please help carve out the agenda below -- beyond the 4 XSCE installations we now have running in Haiti, on 4

[Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2014-02-11 Thread Adam Holt
Packed Agenda...progress steady and newcomers always welcome...plz add your agenda items here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg *Send your skype username or phone number if you can join 10AM NYC Time Thursday, thanks!* Backchannel: channel

Re: [Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2014-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Packed Agenda...progress steady and newcomers always welcome...plz add your agenda items here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg See you in 10.5hrs! *Send your skype username

[Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2014-02-19 Thread Adam Holt
Let's talk about the newly proposed http://schoolserver.org/5.1 if you can join our call us in 20 hrs! Plz read the notes from Tuesday's irc chat meeting if so, and also add your agenda items here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg *Send your skype

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE 5.1

2014-02-21 Thread Adam Holt
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: On last Tuesday's IRC it was decided that release 5.1 should implement features that existed in 0.4 and did not make it into 5.0. Can someone please catalog those features so they can go into the features page on the

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] IRC Meeting at Noon EST Tue Feb 25

2014-02-24 Thread Adam Holt
Apologies can't make it this week, as am in Detroit meeting with our parts store (iLoveMyXO.com !) and a dedicated new Haiti volunteer :) On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: Can the XSCE community get together on IRC again on Tue.? I'd like to hear what went

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] cubox wifi

2014-02-24 Thread Adam Holt
Congrats Jon ! A new XSCE-on-Cubox contributor recruited himself yesterday @ soCalLinuxExpo.org here in LA, so that makes 4 active testers/contributors I know about, and hopefully more soon (*). Even if physical packaging for the developing world remains a struggle, exactly as you predicted last

[Server-devel] highly inspiring XSCE 5.0 + IIAB progress in Malaysia

2014-02-27 Thread Adam Holt
TK, I've received quite some compliments around your work post @ http://olpcbasecamp.blogspot.com/2014/02/unleashed-kids-malaysian-style.html(and not just about the elephants!!) and so wonder if you might be able to publish more about your XSCE 5.0 IIAB success in a tech-trajectory blog post

[Server-devel] Nepal Focus: Thursday's XS(CE) 10AM NYC Time weekly call

2014-03-10 Thread Adam Holt
Great that Tony Anderson and others have committed to being there to keep the focus on actual educators' needs around XS 0.7 and XSCE 5.1. Perfect given a number of experienced Veteran Volunteers will be visiting http://oleNepal.org in April and May, keeping our global repertoire of EduTech

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: [XSCE] Re: Nepal Focus: Thursday's XS(CE) 10AM NYC Time weekly call

2014-03-13 Thread Adam Holt
to daylight savings time. The rest of the world doesn't change until the 30th so the time difference is an hour shorter. I will catch the meeting next week -Jon On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: See you in 1 hour! On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Adam Holt

[Server-devel] another great spontaneous XS(CE) Thurs meetup

2014-03-20 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks to Jon Nettleton and Jerry Vonau's surprise visits this morning, during our weekly http://schoolserver.org call. As usual I could barely keep up transcribing minutes, but if others can clean up their own bits of the rolling agenda below, Even Better :)

[Server-devel] XS(CE) Thurs Weekly Call, 10AM NYC Time

2014-03-26 Thread Adam Holt
See y'all in 16hrs! Add to our http://schoolserver.org community Agenda/Minutes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg Send along your Skype or phone number, anybody wanting to join, thanks! ( Live chat backchannel is #schoolserver on

[Server-devel] Mesh Potato advances for 35 simultaneous Wifi connections for Nepal?

2014-03-27 Thread Adam Holt
Terry Gillett, As part of the wrapup for our XS(CE) meeting this morning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg ...Tony Anderson mentions VillageTelco.org's new Mesh Potato $40 router w/ OpenWRT custom firmware that will apparently guarantee 35 Wifi

[Server-devel] XS(CE) weekly call: 3 special guests live from Kenya

2014-04-10 Thread Adam Holt
10AM NYC Time, Friday April 11ths -- that's 4PM for those joining us in person in Paris. Our 3 special guests calling in live from Kenya will be Simon Mwangangi, Chris Kakoba and Mark Battley, explaining some advances in central Kenya especially. If there is time, an unreleased video with be

[Server-devel] school server community call: Thur 10AM NYC Time

2014-05-21 Thread Adam Holt
It's been a month. Extensive travel with OLE Nepal and in the Middle East have wrenched open our souls to new possibilities. Plz join to catch up --- and add to XS(CE) agenda opportunities here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg/edit Thanks for

Re: [Server-devel] school server community call: Thur 10AM NYC Time

2014-05-22 Thread Adam Holt
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: It's been a month. Extensive travel with OLE Nepal and in the Middle East have wrenched open our souls to new possibilities. Plz join to catch up --- and add to XS(CE) agenda opportunities here: https://docs.google.com

[Server-devel] school server weekly call - Thursday 10AM NYC Time

2014-05-28 Thread Adam Holt
Usual time place -- see you there 16hrs from now for a quick weekly XS(CE) call, with open agenda this week, including early previews of some new Haiti projects: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg PS next week Thursday June 5th our focus will be

[Server-devel] School Server Call: Nepal focus (Thurs 10AM NYC Time, June 5th)

2014-06-05 Thread Adam Holt
Nepal will be our focus today, with core developer Sumit Acharya joining us live from Nepal working thru the evolution of OLE Nepal's many schools servers. With OLE Nepal's new MSI DC111 servers remaining cheap at just over $200 but now having 1.8GHz, 500GB HDD, 2 GB RAM and USB3, we will talk

Re: [Server-devel] School Server Call: Nepal focus (Thurs 10AM NYC Time, June 5th)

2014-06-05 Thread Adam Holt
/correct detail here in your own area: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Nepal will be our focus today, with core developer Sumit Acharya joining us live from Nepal working thru

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [UKids] School Server Call: Nepal focus (Thurs 10AM NYC Time, June 5th)

2014-06-06 Thread Adam Holt
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Sumit Acharya sumit.acha...@olenepal.org wrote: I think if you can get the machine without pre-installed WIndows 8.1, the price will drop. Also, in Nepal, the price is substantially lower than Amazon's (US) price given: 1) Nepal's vendor price includes 2GB RAM

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box speed profiling tips on different CPUs?

2014-06-07 Thread Adam Holt
As RichardS GeorgeH valiantly get up to speed clocking Internet-in-a-Box bottlenecks on side-by-side school servers like Nepal's MSI DC111 (Celeron 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM) and faster, with many developing world deployments worldwide itching to follow -- who has intuition what they should test/compare

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Internet-in-a-Box speed profiling tips on different CPUs?

2014-06-08 Thread Adam Holt
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Richard Smith smithb...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps Adam can give us an idea of the situation at the deployments in Haiti. 20 XO-1s is the typical starter school we set up in Haiti, many simultaneously trying to access Internet-in-a-Box with XSCE, almost but not

[Server-devel] school server call - Thur 10AM NYC Time

2014-06-18 Thread Adam Holt
Very intensive week shaping up, with the recall of Intel's Celeron N2820-based NUC etc many of us had planned on testing being a painful setback -- but the wildly succesful test of WiFi and backup bug fixes at one of our anchor schools in Haiti today reminding us how fast progress comes. I hope

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] school server call - Thur 10AM NYC Time

2014-06-18 Thread Adam Holt
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 07:18:40PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: -- but the wildly succesful test of WiFi and backup bug fixes at one of our anchor schools in Haiti today reminding us how fast progress comes. What can you

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended base for XSCE 5.

2014-06-19 Thread Adam Holt
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Richard Smith smithb...@gmail.com wrote: The docs I've looked at so far aren't clear on the OS base for XSCE 5. Does it need F20 or will it work on F18? Fedora 18 support is solid. Fedora 20 support's coming but not entirely there yet (others will hopefully

[Server-devel] Haiti School Server Call - Thur 10AM NYC Time

2014-06-25 Thread Adam Holt
This week our call will focus on some urgent implementation choices prep'ing new school server integration shipping off in Haiti starting Monday June 30th, with several follow-on deployments in July/August/Septembet very likely using near-identical clones of this XSCE 5.1 on Fedora 20 on the Intel

Re: [Server-devel] Haiti School Server Call - Thur 10AM NYC Time

2014-06-25 Thread Adam Holt
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: This week our call will focus on some urgent implementation choices prep'ing new school server integration shipping off in Haiti starting Monday June 30th, with several follow-on deployments in July/August/Septembet very

Re: [Server-devel] Haiti School Server Call - Thur 10AM NYC Time

2014-06-26 Thread Adam Holt
should be added to the minutes here of item (g): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg Thanks All and see you in a week Thursday July 3rd as all this hardware implementation comes together! On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org

[Server-devel] easy or complicated to change XSCE server + OpenVPN names?

2014-06-26 Thread Adam Holt
George, Just curious in case Sora/Haitians desire to re-order deployments, wondering how much hassle she/they'd face: EG. she's scheduled to deploy school delmas28 July 5+, school boisdavril July 12+, and school lascahobas a week later July 19+ --- but logistics can change as ~3 servers+all are

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Need recomendation on School Server for orphanage in Colombia

2014-07-05 Thread Adam Holt
Priceless summaries Tim Mike- We'll be having a detailed Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) call 10AM NYC Time this coming Thurs July 10th, particularly for deployment imlementers/designers/learning teams to voice their veritable needs, articulating feedback from the Bottom Billion now that IIAB and

[Server-devel] How did 262 abandoned Haiti XOs cross the road?

2014-07-10 Thread Adam Holt
And in the grand scheme of things, what in the end has Negroponte wrought? Sora's blog post today gives one incredibly honest answer, live from Haiti: http://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/traffic-report/ Please everyone consider you too leaving your armchair like she did, to come join her

Re: [Server-devel] How did 262 abandoned Haiti XOs cross the road?

2014-07-10 Thread Adam Holt
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: And in the grand scheme of things, what in the end has Negroponte wrought? Sora's blog post today gives one incredibly honest answer, live from Haiti: LINK FIXED: http://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] How did 262 abandoned Haiti XOs cross the road?

2014-07-11 Thread Adam Holt
?docnum=1364380 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/ http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/kreyol/ -- *From:* Adam Holt h...@laptop.org *To:* Unleash Kids! unleashk...@googlegroups.com; server-devel server-devel@lists.laptop.org; Community Support

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: [support-gang] How did 262 abandoned Haiti XOs cross the road?

2014-07-11 Thread Adam Holt
to hearing about Bois D Avril, and, seeing this makes my day! Nancie:) *Nancie G. Severs* * Treasure Each Day* On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:44 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 08:31:36PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: Indeed! We'll even forgive her the very 1st

[Server-devel] school server soul-searching - Thurs 10AM NYC Time

2014-07-16 Thread Adam Holt
For this week's meeting, I've thrown up 7 higher-level challenges, inviting others to free-associate reflecting over George Hunt Tim Moody's Herculian accomplishments in Haiti of the past 5 weeks(*), so we can derive where different parts of the world want us to go next:

Re: [Server-devel] school server soul-searching - Thurs 10AM NYC Time

2014-07-17 Thread Adam Holt
, logistics, maintenance/off-site backups/spare parts, admin/mgmt/coordination}. In addition to connectivity/advocacy investments critical to move beyond throwaway hardware and throwaway promises (would you like some Free 4G LTE minutes for your school ;) On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Adam Holt h

[Server-devel] CentOS 7.0 Released, 3 years after CentOS 6.0

2014-07-20 Thread Adam Holt
Is it time to consider this industrial-strength OS, promising full updates til Q4 2020 and 10 yrs of maintenance updates til 30 June 2024 ? http://CentOS.org http://wiki.CentOS.org/Download Or do we consider alternatives, reflecting complaints CentOS is no longer sufficiently

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] CentOS 7.0 Released, 3 years after CentOS 6.0

2014-07-20 Thread Adam Holt
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Jul 20, 2014 11:57 AM, Anish Mangal anis...@umich.edu wrote: When I had checked the release notes a few days ago, there wasn't any ARM support, at least officially. Keeping that constraint in mind, it may still be

[Server-devel] extremely productive school server meeting!

2014-07-24 Thread Adam Holt
As usual minutes are imperfect, as we raced thru so many topics over almost 100min, but here's the outline of what we advanced earlier this morn -- thanks all for writing in yr tweaks/corrections and/or agenda items for next week:

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] systemd-udevd timeout error while running the set of scripts using usbmount

2014-07-25 Thread Adam Holt
Saintly souls helping OLE Nepal install XSCE 5.0 -- Sumit asks that we copy the solution below (and original question at bottom), for the benefit of all- On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:52 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:50:47AM -0700, Sumit Acharya wrote:

[Server-devel] Fwd: Michael Kleiman documentary film WEB about OLPC now available online

2014-09-26 Thread Adam Holt
From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:44 PM Subject: Michael Kleiman documentary film WEB about OLPC now available online To: iaep i...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Instant Video. article in The

[Server-devel] school server call 11AM NYC Time Thursday: RACHEL/Haiti progress etc!

2014-10-29 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks for the 5 preliminary RSVP's for Internet-in-a-Box + School Server call tomorrow, please join too if you can! Better yet, don't hesitate to contribute to our agenda growing here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg Call is on Skype (reply

[Server-devel] XSCE 5.1 clarification :)

2014-10-30 Thread Adam Holt
[1:11:08 PM | Edited 1:11:12 PM] Canoe Berry: Long call complete, even if agenda's best laid plans were derailed, 2 incredibly valuable hours nonetheless :) [1:18:52 PM] Curt Thompson: I was glad I was able to make it. I'll try next week too. We should probably tall about the official release of

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] copyright and licensing

2014-10-31 Thread Adam Holt
Anish, Can you lay out the AGPL vs GPL choice before next week's Thur Nov 6 meeting? (10AM NYC Time, OK for you?) And make clear that content licensing (hosted by school server) is very different, as schools/districts/ministries-of-education quite reasonably insist they need to accommodate so

[Server-devel] UEFI workaround?

2014-10-31 Thread Adam Holt
Tony Anderson's is leaving to Africa in 6 days, assisting many different school server deployments, and needs help getting around secure BIOS/firmware UEFI on the following platforms: - NUC 34010 - BIOS upgrade solves this, by moving jumper and inserting USB memory stick containing newer Intel

[Server-devel] School Server Call -- Thurs 11AM NYC Time

2014-11-03 Thread Adam Holt
This Thursday we're sticking with 11AM NYC Time(*). Agenda's getting packed, but that's a good thing -- each all can help keeping keeping our best ideas organized here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg RSVP if you can join by phone or Skype or

Re: [Server-devel] School Server Call -- Thurs 11AM NYC Time

2014-11-06 Thread Adam Holt
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: This Thursday we're sticking with 11AM NYC Time(*). Agenda's getting packed, but that's a good thing -- each all can help keeping keeping our best ideas organized here: https://docs.google.com/document/d

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