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

2013-07-10 Thread Adam Holt
This intensive weeklong "XSCE" sprint (School Server Community Edition) is bringing great accomplishments around http://Internet-in-a-Box.org and Pathagar (http://olpcsf.org/node/126), from those here in Manitoba, Canada and the many participating remotely. Including one celebrated volunteer contr

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

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > 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-30

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 http:/

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

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:57 PM, George Hunt wrote: > > We discussed French/Creole/Spanish translation of IIAB GUI? Braddock will > try to send the English phrases (several hundred) to Holt next week > sometime, so http://translate.sugarlabs.org might even support wider > translations. > What s

[Server-devel] XSCE Update day 3

2013-07-10 Thread George Hunt
Today, we are focusing on integration of Internet In a Box, the rpm's, and the 600GB of external hard drive data and hardened up objectives for the rest of the week. We discussed French/Creole/Spanish translation of IIAB GUI? Braddock will try to send the English phrases (several hundred) to Hol

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