[Sugar-devel] XSCE Update

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Thanks for the update, keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Christoph


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 3:53 PM, David Farning <dfarning at activitycentral.com
> wrote:

> Time for the second installment to the XSCE Update.
>
> - Deployments-
>
> 1. Bhagmalpur, India - http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com/ . The update
> to XSCE is complete in Bhagmalpur. It will be interesting to see what
> Sameer concluded based on the statistics generation system. -- Thanks
> Sameer and Anish
>
> 2. Haiti - http://haitidreams.wordpress.com/ . Haiti was the first
> 'real world test' for XSCE started a couple of months ago. Many of the
> ideas for XSCE come from George's and Adam's experiences maintaining
> the deployment. -- Thanks George and Adam
>
> 3. OLPC Australia - https://www.laptop.org.au/ . Much of the planning
> for XSCE comes from the experience of Jerry, the lead developer of
> OLPC AU. Jerry lives in Canada while maintaining a 5000 unit
> deployment which is is the process of expanding to 50,000 XO4s. --
> Thanks Jerry
>
> 4. Solomon Islands - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands .
> Working with David has been a great help to the project. For the past
> couple of weeks, David has been asking a series of questions about
> testing and deploying XSCE in the Solomon Islands. Many of the
> questions involve working in a low bandwidth environment. We hope we
> learn from his questions and can create something which meets his
> needs. -- Thanks David
>
> 5. Dominican Republic - http://olpcdr.wordpress.com/ . Last week
> Ruben, from OLPC-A, joined the #schoolserver mailing list to ask some
> questions about deploying XSCE in the Dominican Republic. I hope this
> is a sign of growing cooperation between OLPC-A and XSCE. -- Thanks
> Ruben
>
> -Development -
>
> Santiago started using our new gIt workflow as documented at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.4/Hacking .
>
> We hope the recent modularization and the new workflow will make it
> easier for deployment to upstream their hard work with needing to
> understand the entire system. If you are interested in tracking
> progress please see https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xsce/repository
> .  -- Thanks Santi, Tim, George
>
> - What does the SchoolServer Serve? :) -
>
> For a general overview of the School Server please see
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition .
>
> More specifically, a number of existing projects are working with XSCE
> to provide their content. XSCE's plug in design allow these projects
> to easily prepare their project for inclusion in XSCE
>
> 1. Internet in a Box - http://internet-in-a-box.org/ . It looks like
> IIAB will ship as an add on with 0.4 in Sept. -- Thanks Braddock
>
> 2. Pathagar. - https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar . Pathagar is
> a simple book server for making custom libraries available to
> deployments. Pathagar is interesting because it allow curators to use
> widely available, cross platform tools such as
> http://calibre-ebook.com/  to maintain those libraries. -- Thanks Seth
>
> As always, please help us met your deployment or project's needs.
>
> --
> David Farning
> Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com
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Christoph Derndorfer

volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net]

e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
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