Re: [Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server

2008-06-23 Thread Yama Ploskonka
> We could have 2 options: > a/ a dedicated XO based XS server, to be used during classtime, serving > eventually a few (< 40-50) XOs, for example in a class) as well as the > teachers > monitoring XO. One thing that concerns me here is connectivity. The class XOs would be expected to connect

[Server-devel] OA for OLPC, was Re: XS SW

2008-06-14 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Yama Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am looking forward to incorporate Open Admin (An open source web-based >> school administration program. Includes student demographics, attendance, >> discipline,

Re: [Server-devel] Help on the School_server

2008-06-11 Thread Yama Ploskonka
I was considering that defining "sub units within the school" might be a workaround for now, but I have no idea how that can be done. By MAC address?. Please, people who know how that can be done, do tell us. It has been mentioned that in some Uruguay schools they have to schedule times of the

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Yama Ploskonka
> [ from another email now ... ] > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Tarun Pondicherry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, you can't tell what options to remove until you get real users >>> using it, and you spot which options they don't use ;-) >> Thats true, but I'm also concerned we might

[Server-devel] Problems with mesh OLPC Sur list / problemas con la malla

2008-05-15 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Hi y'all, I am double posting for I do not know whose fish this is. A teacher in Uruguay indicates issues with operating with mesh, two others confirmed they had a similar experience of random connectivity. Please help, either subscribe to OLPC-Sur to answer in Spanish or respond through either

Re: [Server-devel] solar Re: Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

2008-05-04 Thread Yama Ploskonka
nks, Yama Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Yama Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is the provenance of those panels and is there any publicly >> available information on their performance re:XOs the rest of us can use? > > I&

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen und freudenvollere. Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Yama Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Al hijo de mi madre nadie le pisa el poncho" >> Rioplatense saying &g

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
OK guys, I took one but I won't take two. I'm a blue blooded hidalgo, after all, descendant of the Virrey Toledo, and also of Inca Yupanqui, fact which probably would take away my pretensions :-) I have found Javier an opinionated person. We do not always agree in the Peru list. Yet I found

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-Peru] GPRS connectivity

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Somebody might care to contact ANTEL in Uruguay. They invested humongous sums in this sort of thing, sums that later were questioned :-) In the 1997 they hooked up to big fanfare every single one-room school in the country with some sort of wall-mounted hardware that apparently was cell-phone

[Server-devel] solar Re: Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Johannes dixit, > 10W Solar panels will be deployed with the first > laptops in areas without power.We are working on other ways of > charging our batteries (the multi-battery charger) and better ways of > distributing power to laptops within a classroom, but not on larger > power generat

[Server-devel] solar above 3500 m, was Re: [OLPC-Peru] Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Javier, Great note, let me just segue with my own issue > *ENERGY* > we have > discuss solar panels and other options that seems not very useful for > our mountains... hmm. Could you please give details? I am planning to use panels in Bolivia altitudes 3800 - 4200 m. If you or anyone h

[Server-devel] noob needs Poodle, Moodle, Drupal mentoring

2008-04-15 Thread Yama Ploskonka
To prepare to run a LAN during a translation / content fest hopefully soon to be announced I need to learn how to set up a server running at least Poodle and either or both Moodle and Drupal. I have been hanging out in this list and even posting, hiding the fact that I have no idea on how to acc

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-06 Thread Yama Ploskonka
I don't want to rain in anybody's party, but sadly the matter of a GPS related to the OLPC project has already become a matter of uninformed attack. This is obviously a dissatisfied person's conspiracy theory, and I feel embarrassed to even repeat it, but Mr. Olivera of Argentina is telling an

[Server-devel] TUE Total User Experience

2008-04-05 Thread Yama Ploskonka
As per several suggestions, I am crossposting to existing lists so as to draw traffic for this thread to be followed in the Educators list. The concept is to discuss the OLPC Total User Experience from a Paddington Bear point of view, and find problems, and hopefully fix them. Paddingtom came f

[Server-devel] OT is there a Content or Curriculum olpc email list

2008-04-03 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Please forgive me for this message and crosspost, but after meandering sort of all over laptop.org I cannot find an equivalent to these most excellent Server and Localization lists. Do any of you know if such a content or curriculum list exists and how I can sign up for it? Also, is there somet