On 17 April 2012 06:56, David Leeming <da...@leeming-consulting.com> wrote: > Hi Janissa > > Your programme sounds very worthwhile and I wish you all the best with it! > > Maybe I was not clear, but my point is that for us, the XS (we are using > v0.6) installed on a low power e-box such as the EPC-AT270 (I can send you > the spec sheet, it is available in Australia not sure where you are) has > proven exactly what you seem to be looking for. Very low power, running at > 15W or less on 12V DC solar power, with auto-power on enabled so even if > there is a power outage the locals don't need to intervene. At one site it > ran 187 months continuously and no problems. The access points all using DC > power via PoE too.
The approach that we have taken in Australia is to only introduce technology that can be installed and maintained by a non-technical user. Only that will give you proper sustainability. The XS is far too complicated, so we don't use it. We are investigating options to create a plug-and-play appliance version. > Our schools in PNG only theoretically have Internet access in some locations > as the quality of service is insufficient. Even if it were, it's only for > the teachers due to cost. But the teachers do have some limited options with > 3G dongles if they wish to sign up to the OLPC-Australia XO-Certification > programme (extended to Pacific) laptop.moodle.com.au and so we spent time > training them to do so. The One Education programme is explained at http://www.one-education.org/ You can fill in the form at the bottom of that page if you want to know more. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
