<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Pre-sprint call tomorrow, bringing together the agendas of ~10 implementers arriving in person and any unable to join face2face, exactly 27hrs from now: <div class="moz-cite-prefix"> Sun Feb 3rd, 6PM (Toronto/NYC time) All plz join if you care to contribute! During our Toronto-area sprint (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://schoolserver.org">http://schoolserver.org</a>) we'll also have 2 open calls: Thur Feb 7th, 6PM (Toronto/NYC time) Sat Feb 9th, 6PM (Toronto/NYC time) Core XS Community Edition progress/testing, on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 especially, will be central to all calls. Extended services may also be discussed: big iron, backup/restore, WebDAV, squid proxy/cache, Puppet/pdsh upgrading/administration, pathagar bookserver, DansGuardian web-filtering, Moodle LMS, promising content communities, LocalFi.org, Sugar Network, relevant Raspberry Pi vectors etc. And yes: navigating lofty learning dreams vs. global/enterprise educational requirements, large and small. Send your Skype username in advance (and a bit about yourself if you're new) to join the discussion, thanks! On 1/23/2013 5:45 PM, Holt wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:510067F1.8090505@laptop.org" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Happy to announce many folk are arriving in person a day in advance, evening of Wedn Feb 6. If you too are interested in XS Community development (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://schoolserver.org">http://schoolserver.org</a>) and would like to contribute, it's not too late to RSVP today. Per tradition, we'll also have open Skype calls for dedicated and new remote contributors: Thur Feb 7th, 6PM (Toronto/NYC time) Sat Feb 9th, 6PM (Toronto/NYC time) Thanks all for RSVP'ing in advance with suggestions -- to help us harmonize agendas/roadmap for a productive and warm 4-day CDN(*) weekend for all. (*) Just don't forget your ice skates for the pond! As CDN comes in many colors :) <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/240/e/b/the_great_canadian_wilderness_by_prismsky-d5cqacf.jpg">http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/240/e/b/the_great_canadian_wilderness_by_prismsky-d5cqacf.jpg</a> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/8/2013 6:50 PM, Holt wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:50ECB0DC.3040001@laptop.org" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Thanks all as we're approaching capacity with about 5 Americans and 5 Canadians RSVP'd! (but if you have more exotic citizenship+passports we'll certainly make a place for you, don't worry, contact me soon regardless =) Strategy? Our meeting will focus on a shippable/solid school server (SSSS) serving large deployments as well as community schools. No matter how close we get to painfree network-configuration. Even if much-desired features from the following list don't all ship in the end: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aki16JhXo4mEdEU1MzA5OGJuOERtbGxHSkxzT2ZFSGc">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aki16JhXo4mEdEU1MzA5OGJuOERtbGxHSkxzT2ZFSGc</a> See you in a month! <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/4/2013 2:20 AM, Holt wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:50E682CD.4050809@laptop.org" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> Details emerging in coming days/weeks @ <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://schoolserver.org">http://schoolserver.org</a> Please join Jerry Vonau, George Hunt, Anna Schoolfield, Tim Moody, Rodrigo Hartmann and others advancing their XS Community Edition & ebook/content efforts towards community customers & XS 0.8. Toronto/UWaterloo-area accommodations, home cooking & personal pickup from Toronto/Buffalo/Detroit airports may be free if I believe in your work, plz RSVP today if you're interested in attending, thanks much ! Those with ongoing School Server projects consider arriving 1-2 nights in advance to polish your work, working alongside others who genuinely give a damn! Prior to the larger group arriving Thur Feb 7 thru Monday Feb 11. Or stick around an extra night to complete your task. EG. several of us Might Even drive to Birmingham, Alabama Feb 13/14 to give Valentine Love to the unheralded XO/XS work ongoing in small pockets of the western world / OECD's largest (if in many ways sadly defunct) XO deployment. Where I personally had the great fortune to get an inside glimpse at this evolving "21st century civil rights movement" over much of December... <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Help kids everywhere map their world, at <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a></pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Help kids everywhere map their world, at <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> !</pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Help kids everywhere map their world, at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> !</pre> </body> </html>