[Server-devel] Fw: Comment: Understanding LAMP platform for Web 2.0 workloads

[Tony Pearson]

Wayan,
Chief Mike brings up a good point, and perhaps we can put out this on your 
OLPC news blog as a guest post?

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Guest post: Tony Pearson

As the OLPC rolls out hundreds of laptops at each school, there is a need 
as well for some
infrastructure that connects these students to digital materials, and 
teachers to manage their
lesson plans and other activities.

I have been working with OLPC Nepal on their deployment of two servers. 
One is a library
server that provides digital content in the local language, ebooks, 
pictures, and reference
materials.  The other is a school server that provides filtering, caching 
and connectitvy to the
outside internet.

However well we design this, there will be a need for local "system 
administrators" to 
put together and maintain these systems and perform the care-and-feeding 
needed to keep
the systems operating properly.  While the exact details of what stack of 
software will run on
these is still in development, we have agreed they would be based on the 
free and open source
software bundle known as the LAMP platform, which stands for the 
combination of:

<ul>
<li>Linux operating system, Fedora 7 in this case
<li>Apache web server
<li>MySQL database
<li>PHP, Perl and Python programming languages
</ul>

(See my post <a 
href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage?entry=understanding_lamp_platform_for_web">
Understanding the LAMP platform</a> for more details)

The local teams I am working with have expressed concern that there is a 
lack of written
documentation.  Actually, there is probably plenty in both written and 
online form, we just
need to identify it, select the best of the best, and either make that 
available somewhere 
or send them physical books and CDs of the content.

Want to help?  Here's what we could really use:

<ul>
<li>If you know of great books or websites that have easy-to-understand 
instructions on
deploying and maintaining the LAMP platform, how to administer Linux in 
general, 
how to write PHP programs, and other tutorials, please post a comment 
below.  For example, I have been
using the 900-page "Fedora 7 Unleashed" from SAMS Publishing, but I 
suspect there are other books
and websites out there that others might consider useful or easier to 
carry.

<li> If you have books that you no longer need, because they are too 
introductory or 
basic for you, consider donating them to an OLPC project.  Intro to Linux, 
Intro to PHP, 
intro to SQL database query language, would all be useful.

<li>If you have a PC that you aren't using, and are interested in helping 
out, consider
installing the OLPC server software yourself, and document your 
experiences, this would
greatly help out testing out the bugs, figuring out what needs tuning or 
adjustment, and
to see how well the procedures work on different types of equipment.  See 
the
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server">wiki</a> for more 
details.

</ul>
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Thanks
Tony Pearson
XS Server development team






Tony Pearson
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Chief Mike Kouklis (USN Retired) wrote: 

Thanx for your post here, as I'm also trying to also setup something here 
at "The Kalibo Elementary School-II / Aklan Special Education Center" 
(it's in a rural part of the Philippines :) 
My biggest problem down here besides frequent power interruptions, 300+VAC 
surges, and loss(or <3kbps) of ISP, is lack of written documentation. If 
you would consider donating ANY of your used books(Fedora 7 Unleashed) 
cd's or other??? OLPC-Philippines, the Kalibo Public School's Staff and I 
would greatly appreciate it.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines_Unang_Liwanag (First Light). 
:)chief_mike_k at yahoo.com:)

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