Logistics, and school identification.

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Let's be careful with the term "UUID"
>> Quanta generates a UUID which corresponds to the SN and stores it in
>> manufacturing data, which is used for things like leases.
>> Additionally, the Paraguay inventory system generates a unique ID
>> which we generate a barcode from. So there are really 2 UUIDs per
>
> Cool - I am talking about the manufacturing UUID - related to the leases :-)
>
>>>  - What the format of the school identifier? For the classroom?
>>
>> 5 components:
>> 1. City (always Caacupé at the moment)
>> 2. School (identified by number, all schools are numbered here)
>> 3. Shift (morning or afternoon -- with a couple of exceptions, kids
>> only get half a day of school)
>> 4. Grade (1 through 6)
>> 5. Section (A,B,C,...) - basically when there are multiple classrooms
>> for one grade due to number of students, this identifies the class
>>
>> For example, a label that we affix to a box of 5 laptops might say:
>>
>> Caacupé :: 40 :: Turno mañana :: Tercer grado :: Sección B (7)
>
> Ok, so the string is quite long. I thought perhaps it was encoded into
> something shortish. I am interested mainly in the school
> identification, if there's a compact identifier. Sometimes schools
> have "registration numbers", etc. But you don't seem to be using it.
>
> Do Uruguay or Peru use a school identification scheme?

Peru has a number scheme, by region and school, a unique number is generated.

>
>>>  - Can the SN, UUID,classroom, school data be exported to a CSV file
>>> or something similar?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>>  - Can I get my hands on a sample file? :-)
>>
>> A sample file of what?
>
> If the inventory tool you use has a CSV file exporter already, I'd
> like to have a sample snippet.
>
>>>  - How are updates to the information handled? Does the inventory get
>>> updated when new laptops are sent to a school? Does it handle
>>> blacklisting (marking an XO as broken or stolen), replacement, etc?
>>
>> Yes, all of the above. It's done through a web interface.
>
> And if we wanted to use that to prepare data to ship to XSs out there
> (some on the interwebs, some not), is it easy to generate a CSV or
> similar export with the current XOs in each school? We'd also want a
> listing of stolen SN/UUIDs...
>
>> How does this line up with XS plans?
>
> Quite reasonable :-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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