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font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">Toronto-area School Server Hack
Sprint<br>
<br>
This weekend, seven dedicated souls pulled together to solidify,<br>
plan and build -- getting to know each other much better en route.<br>
What will schools worldwide really want from a server in the
coming<br>
10 years? What's the most constructive community & solid
product<br>
we as volunteers can build within 1 year?<br>
<br>
Careful advanced planning helped us release version .1 Friday
late,<br>
strengthening our minimal core of AP-like features on an XO-1.75:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.1">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.1</a><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.1"></a><br>
<br>
Next we tackled version .2 with a small set
of extended services,<br>
also for XO-1.75 but with experimental support for x86 "big iron":<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2</a><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2"></a><br>
<br>
Further down our main page (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://schoolserver.org">http://schoolserver.org</a>) thoughtful<br>
documentation has begun under "Getting Started":<br>
<br>
* Get Started Hacking (developers, contributors)<br>
* Get Started Implementing (administrators)<br>
* FAQ<br>
<br>
What's new? In our prelim releases we're aiming towards a drop-in<br>
equivalent of February 2012's XS 0.7 but running on Fedora 17+<br>
including ARM. Working forward, we want to refine core services<br>
for modularity (Squid, etc) and content/collaboration services<br>
(eg. Mediawiki, OPDS/Pathagar to curate ebooks, etc) in support<br>
of library-like "offline clouds" for very rural communities that<br>
won't have Internet for many, many years.<br>
<br>
We invite you to join, installing/testing scenarios most vital to<br>
your (micro)deployment and planet. Thanks all who can help think<br>
this through, joining our Thursday weekly voice calls where you
can!<br>
Finally, sketching out v.3 and v.4 is underway, eg. for
modularity,<br>
GUI console and fuller support for x86, XO-1.5 and XO-4:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3</a><br>
<br>
Early spring we hope to meet again to make this happen & much
more =)<br>
<br>
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