[OLPC library] goal setting and scope for BookSprint

[adam hyde]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:08 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> 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.
> 

I think we should focus on a realistic set of goals for the week.
Documenting what Anne has outlined is already more than enough. We
should go through this list in Austin on Sunday and set a list of
priorities. I would say the server is best left off that list for this
sprint. 

adam


> -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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