[Server-devel] [XSCE] School Server Special Interest Group at OLPC-SF

[David Farning]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:26 PM, David Farning <dfarning at activitycentral.com>
> wrote:
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>> Great,
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>> I have been thinking of two parallel themes for how school servers can
>> add value to the conference.
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>> Dogfooding/Demo. School server developers from various projects could
>> dogfood their work at the conference by providing network connectivity
>> for all participants.... via their server. This will provide an
>> interesting feedback loop about what works and what else is needed.
>> Plus it could be fun for everyone.
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>> Deployment feedback. The idea here would be to have a set of talks by
>> deployments about how school servers add value to their projects and
>> what else school servers can do to make their lives easier. The less
>> time deployments have to worry about technical stuff like school
>> servers, the more time they have to think about the educational side
>> of the project:)
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>> From there we can have a talk about how the various people and
>> organizations involved in school server projects can work together (if
>> possible) to meet the needs of deployments.
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>> Finally, we can shift to work mode to design and implement solutions
>> identified by dogfooding and deployment feedback.
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> I would encourage you all to submit multiple proposals for the workshops
> you'd like to lead or participate in. Here's the submission form.
> http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/proposal
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> The sessions committee will sort through and merge proposals. Our approach
> is to accommodate as many proposals as possible, and merge similar ones into
> common sessions. We are not doing panel discussion this year, so that should
> open up more sessions. Submit away!

+1. My initial question was to see if other people participating in
the conference are interested in the general theme of School Servers.
If so, I will do what I can to encourage school server related talks
and workshops. This means funding travel key people to give those
talks and participate in those workshops. Final decisions over the
sessions and how they are moderated is up to the event coordinators.

For full disclosure, I thought the session events on the first day of
last year's conferences were outstanding. People with overlapping
interests were meeting and talking about how they were solving their
own problems at their own deployments. After the panel discussions, I
was so frustrated that I left early and swore never to return....

Eleven month later, I am ready to try again. Having sponsored EduJam
in Uruguay, I am well aware of the tendency of some of our more vocal
community members to treat a public event as their personal soapbox.

Thanks for doing this. It is a hard and thankless task.

> Sameer
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> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Professor, Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://commons.sfsu.edu/
> http://olpcsf.org/
> http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/
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>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > Indeed, two very successful XSCE 0.4 RC1 / IIAB server installations
>> > here in
>> > Haiti over the past 10 days (at 2 very different schools) where George
>> > Hunt
>> > & I learned more than we could have imagined.
>> >
>> > I'd encourage folks to use the following page as a scratchpad for school
>> > server ideas of all kind coming together around SF Oct 18-20 and exactly
>> > 4
>> > weeks later in Malaysia Nov 16-18 for the new Asia/Pacific folk too!
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>> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.5/Sprint
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>> > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM, David Farning
>> > <dfarning at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey all,
>> >>
>> >> I would like to float the idea of a School Server Special Interest
>> >> Group as part of the upcoming OLP-SF conference.
>> >>
>> >> Over the last year, there has been a lot of activity around the school
>> >> server. In addition to the ongoing OLPC - School Server work, the
>> >> School Server Community Edition project has established itself as the
>> >> leading community supported upstream project. Activity Central is
>> >> creating Dextrose Server, a professionally support Downstream school
>> >> server product on top of XSCE.
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>> >> With that in mind, I would like to test the temperature of the water
>> >> about holding a School Server submit as part OLPC-SF with a possible
>> >> School Server code sprint to follow.
>> >>
>> >> The timing of this summit opens up several opportunities for
>> >> coordination between the people and organizations developing the
>> >> School server and the the people and organizations deploying the
>> >> server. Anyone interested interested in school server focused talks,
>> >> tutorials, sessions?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> David Farning
>> >> Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com
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