[Server-devel] [UKids] Need recomendation on School Server for orphanage in Colombia

Sat Jul 5 20:37:13 EDT 2014

Priceless summaries Tim & Mike-  We'll be having a detailed
Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) call 10AM NYC Time this coming Thurs July 10th,
particularly for deployment imlementers/designers/learning teams to voice
their veritable needs, articulating feedback from the Bottom Billion now
that IIAB and similar have been deployed for many semesters.

We're all trying hard to understand better how these 3 overlapping "offline
digital library" products can now co-evolve, embrace, extend:

   1. nimble RACHEL can provide "entry-level" solid-state / mobile
   knowledge hotspots
   2. IIAB "mid-range" digital libraries
   3. eGranary providing multi-terabyte "Cadillac" digital libraries for
   the wealthiest schools.

IIAB designers/maintainers will be on the call to listen, reflect and
explain what might or might not be possible in 2014 -- please add to our
shared Agenda here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg

*Thanks & see y'all then !*

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:

>   RACHEL is attractive for the small size; the data is 29G, but the
> compressed download is only about 18G.  It is also all static html, so is
> easy to integrate.  I have put it onto XSCE along side of
> Internet-in-a-Box, but we haven't released that yet.  Of course, since IIAB
> is 20 times as large, it has a lot that RACHEL does not.  For example,
> RACHEL has 6000 English Wikipedia articles curated for school children, and
> they are working on French and Spanish, whereas IIAB has about 40
> languages, most with full wikipedia.  Both have Project Gutenberg and Khan
> Acadamy.  IIAB has OpenStreetMaps.  But RACHEL has other medical and
> educational content not in IIAB.  In many ways they are complementary.
>
> Using the schoolserver XSCE as a front end for either or both of RACHEL
> and IIAB, adds a number of services aimed at XOs, like collaboration and
> backup, and more general functionality like internet caching, moodle, file
> sharing, as well as tools to monitor and measure server usage.
>
> For one or two XOs putting RACHEL on an sd card directly in the laptop is
> a good idea.  As the number of laptops increases, delivering the content
> from a server becomes attractive.  We have run xsce on Raspberry Pi in the
> past and there is a dedicated image for RACHEL.  I saw a presentation that
> estimated that up to 5-6 laptops could be served by raspi.
>
> For more laptops the NUC server George Hunt is configuring has a lot more
> capacity while maintaining a modest power draw.
>
> Tim
>
>  *From:* Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 05, 2014 12:29 PM
> *To:* Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
> *Cc:* unleashkids at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [UKids] Need recomendation on School Server for orphanage
> in Colombia
>
>  Hi Steve,
>
> I am also looking to send a free content solution out to a very small
> deployment this month. I might be testing the XSCE / Internet-In-A-Box
> solution in the near future, but right now am downloading the RACHEL
> project, which is a 29GB image of popular free educational content that
> runs off a USB, hard drive, Raspberry Pi server, or any other file server.
>
>  Full Working Online Demo
> http://rachel.worldpossible.org
>
> Full content listing in Google Docs spreadsheet
> http://goo.gl/lBEKoP
>
> How to download
> http://pi.worldpossible.org/howto.html
>
>  Buy RACHEL
> http://worldpossible.org/ecommerce/
>
> The deployment is a tiny community center (which I have visited and is in
> the slum next to the second Lubuto Library) is run by one person who will
> be challenged to make full use of the 5 XO-1s he has requested. As he is
> surrounded by needful street children, he has no time to understand or
> manage a digital content server. I will likely install RACHEL on a couple
> of the XOs by inserting a 32gb SD card and configuring the proper video
> playback software. Though the center has a broadband modem, their internet
> access and electricity is all pre-paid and very spotty. So a wifi router
> solution won't work a lot of the time. With SD cards in laptops, the center
> can continue accessing content on the two XOs for several hours on internal
> battery.
>
> The full XSCE would be great for all the Lubuto locations and the boys I
> have been mentoring would enjoy learning server-side skills. But the
> library staff will still have to be sold on the idea.
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. With the recent update of the Etoys lessons from Christine Murakami
> in Columbus along with existing Etoys Illinois and Sqeakland content, it
> makes me wish there was an offline Etoys repository in the RACHEL
> collection...
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I saw a discussion a while ago suggesting different options.  Can someone
>> give me a recommendation of which one to purchase?  The orphanage has 30-40
>> kids right now and about 5 repurposed laptops running Ubuntu and one XO
>> (hoping to get more once we raise funds).
>>
>> Would want to have Wikipedia and Khan Academy installed.  Also what I
>> believe you call Internet in a Box (ie: a server that allows only
>> whitelisted sites).
>>
>> My wife and kids plan to head down to Colombia on July 20th so I would
>> want to purchase quickly and get setup.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen
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