[Server-devel] Sharing Expreriences

Sat Mar 15 14:56:29 EDT 2008

Hi greg

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <gregmsmi at cisco.com>
wrote:

> Hi Rafael,
>
> That's great news about Colombia! I didn't see anything on the Colombia
> list but I may have missed it. Is this the Boyaca deployment?
>

This is not disclosed yet in Colombia due to  i have not an official permit
to do so yet :) .
But it is not the boyaca deployment. (more details later)

Let me know if you need more local contacts or support. I have a few
technically inclined nephews in Bogotá and know a Colombian
programmer/architect in Boston who may chip in....

>
> In the run up to Nepal deployment I extracted some discussion from the
> list to create two pages on server requirements and development.
>
> This one shows all the main ideas we kicked around in the early going:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:School_Server_Specification
>
> This one shows a more limited and focused implementation intended to get
> the system up ASAP:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:School_Server_Specification_-_Phase_1_Design
>
> I added Bryan's diff file in barely human readable format to the second.
> Ping him for the .txt version if you want it.
>
> Those pages are about a month out of date. There is a new XS image which
> Wad sent you and Bryan has the details on what they will really deploy. Use
> my server pages for an intro to some decisions you want to consider and let
> me know if you have any questions.
>
> One piece of advice is to figure out how much BW and power you will have
> in the schools ASAP. Also, nail down the Server HW (CPU, RAM and disk) and
> Access Point options early. Those points drive a lot of other sw and design
> decisions later.
>
> Estoy a tu servicio en qualquier cosa para Colombia. Avisame como puedo
> ayudar!
>
> Gracias
>

Thanks for your help offer i'll contact you if it is needed, we are still
making the planning so there is not a concrete plan yet but all of this
information it's going to be very useful for the deployment.

Gracias por todo greg, y estaremos en contacto, mas informacion proximamente
en la lista de correo de Colombia.

>
> Greg S
>
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> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:19:27 -0500
> From: "Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero" <dirakx at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Sharing Expreriences
> To: "Bryan Berry" <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
> Cc: server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
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> Hi Bryan,
>
> it's nice to see you around again, thanks for your wishes and for the
> link,
> surely i'll help in complementing/writing all the documentation that is
> necessary.
> and also organizing the existing one.
>
> many many..thanks.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In the next couple of months,  we are going to begin an OLPC pilot
> > > here in Colombia, i've been lurking around in this list
> > > to learn about the school server installation and so on, although
> > > there are nice documents in the wiki, that i'm beginning to
> > > translate to spanish, i wanted to know if anyone of you have
> > > special recommendations for this installation or also wanted to
> > > share with me your experiences about it, although i haven't been in
> > > the designated places to this pilot, i'm beginning to make a test
> > > environment.
> >
> > Great to hear!
> >
> > We haven't tested the build 160 yet but look forward to using it.
> >
> > I highly recommend installing XFCE4 if you are not a command line master
> >
> > yum groupinstall 'XFCE4'
> > yum groupinstall 'X Window System'
> >
> > XS-150 didn't have all the necessary dependencies for X Windows to run
> > properly so we needed the second command. Don't know if the same applies
> > to XS-160
> >
> > I am working on an Acceptance and Testing plan for the XO's that may be
> > useful to you.
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Nepal:_XO_Testing_Plan
> >
> > One of these days I intend to write a sysadmin guide, one of these
> > days . . .
> >
> > In general, the XS documentation is a mess. There are way too many ideas
> > and suggestions clouding what the XS actually does.
> >
> > Good Luck, Rafael! I know you have been working very hard on this for a
> > very long time.
> >
> > Bryan
> > Kathmandu
> >
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>
>
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> Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
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> rafael at laptop.org
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