<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Anne Gentle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annegentle@gmail.com">annegentle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi John,<br>Thanks for the feedback. You bring up very good points.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> The School Server needs a complete documentation package:<br>> - Installation Guide<br>> - Administrator's Guide<br>> - Troubleshooting<br>><br>> We already have two separate User's Guides for the laptop, but nothing<br>
> for the school server... (We could say the same about the software!)</div></blockquote>
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<div>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:</div>
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<div>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.).</div>
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<div>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 <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ds-backup">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ds-backup</a> ); 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.</div>
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<div>Another aspect of this is that the SchoolServer documentation may naturally want to live as an appendix to Walter's Deployment Guide <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide</a> . 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.</div>
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<div>cjl</div></div></div>