[Server-devel] progress on Moodle for the XS
David Van Assche
dvanassche at gmail.com
Wed May 7 08:34:41 EDT 2008
>
> - Single Sign On - Moodle will probably be the main SSO point, with
> MediaWiki and other tools either reading the SSO credentials from
> Moodle (via OpenID?) or directly off the client.
>
Surely it makes more sense to use LDAP for single sign on, as it is
supported by moodle and many more applications (email, posix, etc) out of
the box. If you are going to read against Moodle's mysql database it seems
like you might have to create an abstraction layer for every piece of
sofware you want to authenticate against.
>
> - User management for the school server will happen via an extended
> version of the Moodle user management UI. The plan is to allow course
> membership in Moodle to be visible in the Sugar groups UI widgets (so
> you can share an activity with your course mates).
>
Again, user management should really be done by an external database (ldap)
that then feeds these credentials into whatever program needs them (moodle,
email, computer logon, fedora commons)
>
> - Of course, regional deployments are encouraged to include content
> and sample courses within Moodle.
>
> - Some good discussions (for the Moodle.org site, login as "guest")
>
> Devel list: Moodle on the OLPC server
> http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=73022
>
> K-12 forum: Hints on K-12 usage - Moodle and younger kids
> http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=89165
>
> Further into the future:
>
> - Moodle is moving towards having a good repository model. I am
> trying to help shape those efforts, and make the most in the XS. This
> includes teachers in the local XS being able to "publish"
> content/course materials for other teachers to use.
>
> - A mostly-disconnected Moodle client based on AJAX+GoogleGears or
> something similar.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> martin
> --
> martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> - ask interesting questions
> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
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>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:47:30 +1200
> From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Server-devel] Layout for the yum repo
> To: dennis at laptop.org
> Cc: server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
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>
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I am working on preparing the "xs-0.3" milestone, has some relatively
> simple changes (so far) and I am wondering how the repo layout should
> be setup. What I want to do is to
>
> - Build the LiveCD preconfigured to look at 2 repos, or branches in
> the existing repo:
> -- a pristine F7 branch in the repo that holds all the F7 RPMs
> -- an "XS packages" branch
>
> - For the xs packages branch, is should be looking at the "0.3"
> branch. I may make "0.3.x" images with updated RPMs.
>
> Does that make sense? Our repo right now doesn't seem to be geared for
> this, but I am a bit lost as to the best way of reconfiguring it. What
> should we do?
>
> We don't have many (any?) legacy users in production that we need to
> support with updates (yet). With 0.3 I'll start supporting users more
> explicitly. In the meantime, we have a bit of freedom...
>
> cheers,
>
>
> martin
> --
> martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> - ask interesting questions
> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 10:39:49 +0545
> From: Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Server-devel] setting up project tracking app for OLE Nepal
> office
> To: server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Message-ID: <1209704089.6953.15.camel at dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com>
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>
> This question isn't actually related to the XS, it is related to our
> internal office IT for OLE Nepal.
>
> I am going to set up an internal office project management system for
> the finance, sysadmin, and networking teams, primarily to track
> procurement requests and trouble tickets for the office and the pilots.
> Is there any reason I should use anything besides Trac?
>
> I have looked at www.redmine.org and it is quite pretty. However, I want
> a nice stable solution. I assume Trac is more stable. Suggestions?
> thanks
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:18:36 -0700
> From: "Charles Merriam" <charles.merriam at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] FAQ software
> To: "John Watlington" <wad at laptop.org>
> Cc: server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>, XO Laptop
> Developers
> <devel at lists.laptop.org>
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> Hi John,
>
> A text file and raw HTML to the web page work very well if there is a
> single FAQ maintainer.
>
> Charles
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > Any recommendations for software for Peru to build an FAQ site ?
> >
> > Yes, there are Wikis.
> > Votes for the easiest to install and maintain ?
> > Is there anything better out there ?
> >
> > wad
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 11:36:54 -0400
> From: "Jon Camfield" <Jon at JonCamfield.com>
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] GPRS connectivity
> To: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> Cc: Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org>, Sayamindu Dasgupta
> <sayamindu at gmail.com>, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>,
> Ankur
> Verma <ankur_18d at yahoo.com>, Ankur Verma <
> ankur.verma at nsitonline.in>,
> "laptop-peru :: OLPC_peru" <peru at lists.laptop.org>, Sankarshan
> Mukhopadhyay <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com>, server-devel
> <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>, india at lists.laptop.org
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> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:47 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> > > Did anybody ever figure out what drivers were necessary and try this
> > > out ?
> > > GPRS connectivity is being considered in some areas of Peru...
> >
> > the stuff I've used (Sierra cards) has had modules in mainline that
> > automagically setup a serial device that you can address with ppp. So
> > you "dial" a bogus number to get the modem going and then go through a
> > similarly bogus MS-CHAP auth process (that I guess are there to make
> > things similar to how you login to an old-style internet connection).
>
> In the past with Siemens and Motorola phones connected via USB or IR;
> I also used an usbserial device and pppd. Somewhere I have an
> autodetect-and-dial script I made for rural schools in Jamaica based
> off of this info: http://www.polycon.fi/~laa/biblo/linux_gprs.html<http://www.polycon.fi/%7Elaa/biblo/linux_gprs.html>
> (NB: GPRS was free at the time!).
>
> > Do you know what devices the GPRS companies offer? A quick google
> > shows this howto with a listing of HW known to have drivers...
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ernstagn/GPRS-HOWTO/GPRS-HOWTO-3.html<http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eernstagn/GPRS-HOWTO/GPRS-HOWTO-3.html>
> >
> > cheers,
> > m
> > --
> > martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> > martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> > - ask interesting questions
> > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
> > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
> >
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>
> --
> Jon Camfield
> http://www.JonCamfield.com
> MA, Elliott School of International Affairs in International Science
> and Technology Policy
> RPCV 2002-04, Ministry of Education, Kingston, Jamaica
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:57:39 +1200
> From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Server-devel] Odd Libertas load error
> To: "John Watlington" <wad at laptop.org>, server-devel
> <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Message-ID:
> <46a038f90805012157q39074c6r41deb8e07714837a at mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Testing installation of a new build today with a hand-me-down Shuttle
> machine I got a strange error from the Libertas driver.
>
> libertas: version magic '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS '
> should be '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload 586 4KSTACKS '
> usb8xxx: version magic '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS '
> should be '2.6.23.1-21.fc7 SMP mod_unload 586 4KSTACKS '
>
> I repro'd this with 161, and (just in case) I tested downgrading the
> firmware to the 160 version (usb8388-5.110.20.p49.bin). This is a P4
> 1.80GHz, I wonder if we are compiling the libertas driver with 686
> flags?
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
> --
> Bryan W. Berry
> Systems Engineer
> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>
>
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