[Server-devel] testing out new packages on top of school server images

[SJ Klein]

Kapil, that's a good idea.  It would be great to have not only plone but 
an excellent set of add-ons, including sth like the Definitive Guide in 
english and spanish.

People can test their packages on a basic Fedora Core 7 install, which is 
roughly what our server will be running.

SJ



On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:

> hi folks
>
> i just wanted to confirm that olpc works fine with plone, in terms of 
> rendering speed. i'm out at a regional free software conference in 
> argentina
> http://jornadas.grulic.org.ar/7/ for the next two weeks. i think if plone 
> is acceptable as a solution, the next step would be to send out a call for 
> volunteers on the plone developers lists.
>
> -kapil
>
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:58:25 -0300, Toby Knudsen <tobyknudsen at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> It was a pleasure speaking with Nate, Kapil, Brent and others at the
>> Plone Sprint last Friday.  I'd certainly attend another event that
>> they organized.  I've been confirming a couple things that we
>> discussed and being distracted by summer phenomenon.
>> 
>> Half of our questions and requirements were technical, but those that
>> are of a pedagogical nature are equally important to courseware and
>> need to be addressed.  Here's what I think we agreed upon:
>> 
>> - Hardware requirements.  Will the OLPC laptop be able to display all
>> the Plone javascript in an acceptable manner?  Are the client-side
>> requirements too much?  Perhaps Kapil can recommend a series of Plone
>> actions to test on the internet.
>> 
>> - Educational/pedagogical requirements.   How are teachers going to
>> use write or specify courseware?  What are best guidelines or rules
>> for those writing courseware.  I've looked at the OLPC educational
>> wiki and don't see that this is a policy or convention in place yet.
>> Any suggestions?  similarly:
>> 
>> - Migrate or adopt available courseware distributions?  What are the
>> available conventions and what is optimal?  Is MIT OCW a good example
>> or the best one to follow?
>> 
>> - Packages.  Should Zope/Plone and dependencies be in the core OLPC
>> server distribution?  What about adding content/courseware after it is
>> in place?  Are there any risks to adding content and how can we
>> mitigate these risks?
>> 
>> Toby
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/19/07, Toby Knudsen <tobyknudsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi SJ,
>>> 
>>>> There has been some discussion of a two-step school server setup,
>>> 
>>> It would be great to hear what requirements that inspired this
>>> discussion.  This helps to avoid the phenomenon of qualifying the
>>> technical issue but missing the actual solution to peoples' needs.
>>> 
>>>> an installer that sets up core software on a new disk, and a set of
>>> additional software that gets built on top of this (which might change
>>> by region).  the latter may need its own package/project.
>>> 
>>> I feel ready.
>>> 
>>>> Is there a machine where people who want to test out additional 
>>>> software
>>> can see what works?
>>> 
>>> VMware or Xen virtualization means never having to ask if there's a
>>> machine available.  Userspace VMware has been working fine for me.
>>> 
>>> Let me know if I may be of any assistance with this.
>>> 
>>> Toby
>>> 
>>> [responding to mail list digest, may display quite right.]
>>> 
>