Re: [Server-devel] GSoC

2008-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/3/20 crosvera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, I'm Carlos Ríos, a university student Chilean. And I want apply to > the "Google Summer of Code" and work to help the OLPC project, I read the > idea's list in the Wiki, and I found an idea that I'm sure that I can do it. Hola Carlos! Great to hear

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Roberto Fagá <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try "One Laptop Per Child" :) > http://code.google.com/soc/olpc/about.html Ooops! I'm a tired fool it seems. Sorry about the noise! martin ___ Server-devel mailing list Serve

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-03-20 Thread Roberto Fagá
Try "One Laptop Per Child" :) http://code.google.com/soc/olpc/about.html On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Martin Langhoff > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This year, GSoC is starting early, so > > we should be g

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This year, GSoC is starting early, so > we should be getting in motion asap. Did we manage to get in? Or rather - did OLPC apply at all? Deadline was 12th March... we don't seem to be on the list here http://code.googl

Re: [Server-devel] Database on server

2008-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:47 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are correct that postgres is in the build, but nothing > currently requires it. The idmgr package is using sqlite instead. > > Martin can either make this call or lead further discussion. I have certainly been m

[Server-devel] GSoC

2008-03-20 Thread crosvera
Hello, I'm Carlos Ríos, a university student Chilean. And I want apply to the "Google Summer of Code" and work to help the OLPC project, I read the idea's list in the Wiki, and I found an idea that I'm sure that I can do it. The idea it's about design the admin interface of the school servers. I w

Re: [Server-devel] via epia not supported in iso?

2008-03-20 Thread Marten Vijn
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 23:59 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > Can you install Fedora 7 on that machine ? > We can't support every old machine (although we don't > mind if others help us do so...) Our current litmus test is > support by Fedora 7. it boots, and installs (nearly finished) Marten

Re: [Server-devel] Database on server

2008-03-20 Thread Carol Lerche
I hope not a religious war on my part. I am happy with both choices abstractly (and I am a big user of sqlite3 as well, which is excellent but not so much for multi-user update-heavy applications). My point (and this whole comment is certainly directed at Martin, who is the ongoing developer) is

Re: [Server-devel] Database on server

2008-03-20 Thread Sameer Verma
John Watlington wrote: > Smells like a religious war to me. > > You are correct that postgres is in the build, but nothing > currently requires it. The idmgr package is using sqlite instead. > > Martin can either make this call or lead further discussion. > > John > > On Mar 20, 2008, at 2:17 PM,

Re: [Server-devel] Database on server

2008-03-20 Thread John Watlington
Smells like a religious war to me. You are correct that postgres is in the build, but nothing currently requires it. The idmgr package is using sqlite instead. Martin can either make this call or lead further discussion. John On Mar 20, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Carol Lerche wrote: > I notice that

[Server-devel] Database on server

2008-03-20 Thread Carol Lerche
I notice that the pre-installed database for the xs build is PostGres. Now I have nothing against PostGres. It is a fine database, and was a "real" (ACID) database from the start, unlike MySQL. I certainly advocated that it be used in preference to MySQL for de novo projects at clients in the pa

Re: [Server-devel] Drupal on OLPC? (Martin Langhoff)

2008-03-20 Thread Sameer Verma
Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote: > Hi Sameer, > > I think you are on the right track in terms of laying out the use cases > and relevant variables. A full matrix of options will be too complicated > but we can list the main physical/HW variables and then put known > deployments in each category. > > So

Re: [Server-devel] Drupal on OLPC? (Martin Langhoff)

2008-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the comments and direction. > > I'm still working on options for the Uruguay requirement (BTW now > rewritten, verified with tech lead in Montevideo and posted in wiki at: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go

Re: [Server-devel] Drupal on OLPC? (Martin Langhoff)

2008-03-20 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin et al, Thanks for the comments and direction. I'm still working on options for the Uruguay requirement (BTW now rewritten, verified with tech lead in Montevideo and posted in wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requiremientos_Para_XO). We want any new work to be available in all deploy