[OLPC library] goal setting and scope for BookSprint

[Walter Bender]

I am not real ambitious regarding the XS documentation for next week.
A simple guide to installing a school server simply for the purposes
of the network would be a great step forward. This is enough to enable
a classroom to get started. Backup and other services can come later.

-walter

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>> Thanks for the feedback. You bring up very good points.
>>
>> > The School Server needs a complete documentation package:
>> >  - Installation Guide
>> >  - Administrator's Guide
>> >  - Troubleshooting
>> >
>> > We already have two separate User's Guides for the laptop, but nothing
>> > for the school server...  (We could say the same about the software!)
>
>
> While I think some prominent mention of XS SchoolServer in this
> effort certainly seems like a good idea to encourage more experimentation
> with it (acknowledging that a large part of the audience for this doc
> will, in it's first version, be new) G1G1 donors).  However, I would agree
> with Christoph's comment that extensive documentation on XS SchoolServer may
> need to be deferred for a number of reasons:
>
> 1) I suspect you will really need to engage Martin Langhoff (XS developer)
> to get the best documentation of where XS SchoolServer is now and where it
> is going in the near term (e.g. Moodle, etc.).
>
> 2) The documentation on the XS on the wiki at the moment is a mix of
> operational (e.g. mesh) and aspirational (e.g. back-up).  There seems to be
> rapid and recent development going on to realize some of the promise of the
> XS ( see for example recent work on back-up
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ds-backup ); but without the direct involvement of
> Martin Langhoff and/or M Stone OR a lot of testing with a live SchoolServer
> set-up, it may be challenging to sort through what is currently functional
> and what is still being implemented.
>
> Another aspect of this is that the SchoolServer documentation may naturally
> want to live as an appendix to Walter's Deployment Guide
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide . I am certainly in favor of work
> being done to enhance and improve the excellent start made there.  Again, I
> think that may be best accomplished by dragooning in folks from real world
> deployments (Oceania, Nepal, Peru, Uruguay, etc.) that would have some
> valuable experience to contribute to the practical aspects of XS deployment
> and maintenance.  That sort of coordination seems to be out-of-scope for the
> current effort, but I think the "hooks" should be left in place to tie the
> 8.2 (single or small group) XO-based Sugar documentation being developed at
> the Jam into future efforts, which is, of course, part of the beauty of
> using the FLOSS platform for this effort.
>
> cjl
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