[OLPC-SF] Fwd: RACHEL Justice Webinar - Monday December 14th 10AM PST / 1PM EST - Hosted by NORSC and OYA

[Sameer Verma]

This might be interesting to some of you.

Sameer

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeremy Schwartz <jeremy at worldpossible.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:20 PM
Subject: RACHEL Justice Webinar - Monday December 14th 10AM PST / 1PM EST -
Hosted by NORSC and OYA
To: sameer % <sverma at sfsu.edu>


*Webinar scheduled for 12/14/15 10am PST / 1pm EST*

*Technology in Corrections.  A discussion of RACHEL for Corrections in the
United States.*

The webinar is sponsored and hosted by the *Consortium for Open Resources
in Special Circumstances*.  Contributors to the webinar are Jeremy
Schwartz, Executive Director of WorldPossible.org (founders of RACHEL);
Brian Walsh, Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges;
Frank Martin, VESOY Administrator – OYA; Tracie Hightower, Asst. VESOY
Administrator – OYA; Gary Westoby, VESOY Technical advisor – OYA.  More
details on the webinar below the graphic.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN WEBINAR
<http://www.worldpossible.org/sendy/l/4IRXZWDUQArNxtiFB0sdNA/1ng92FL763tLgJj3aDvvf8HQ/gdIQzxaDe9c4RZNpOXinjA>

(FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD REQUIRED)

The Oregon Youth Authority started out with a few select RAHEL PI devices
from World Possible. We quickly saw the potential for getting meaningful
content on the living units for the young people to access. Conversations
continued between Jeremy Schwartz from World Possible and OYA about another
version of the Rachel server known as the RACHEL Plus.

This hardware comes bundled in an Intel Wireless Content Access Point
(CAP). Inside the Intel CAP is a 500GB HDD, lithium-ion battery backup (up
to 5 hours battery life), Intel Atom E3815 1.46GHz processor, 2GB DDR3
memory and a Linux Ubuntu 12.04 Server OS. The server software uses a
dashboard to access the settings on the device and a GUI to upload content
via wired, USB or wireless connection. Intel claims up to 50 simultaneous
connections to the device.

By looking at it on the wall, it appears to be a wireless access point
(which it can serve as). Inside the harddrive is the content bundled by
World Possible which is the heart of the RACHEL Plus server. Jeremy
Schwartz and his team of volunteer developers at World Possible have
crafted a very unique file structure to add or remove content that is in a
modular configuration. World Possible has a repository with around 37
modules, some in up to 5 different languages.

Brian Walsh of The Consortium for Open Resources in Special Circumstances
is moderating a webinar to discuss the RACHEL Plus server, talk to the
developers from World Possible and also talk with the Oregon Youth
Authority about their journey from the Rachel PI to the RACHEL Plus CAP.
The webinar will be recorded and available after the event.



CLICK HERE TO JOIN WEBINAR
<http://www.worldpossible.org/sendy/l/4IRXZWDUQArNxtiFB0sdNA/1ng92FL763tLgJj3aDvvf8HQ/gdIQzxaDe9c4RZNpOXinjA>

(FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD REQUIRED)



-- 
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems
San Francisco State University
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