[Server-devel] school server soul-searching - Thurs 10AM NYC Time

[Adam Holt]

Such great ideas this morning, added to the minutes here, solidifying both
critical paths for 2015:

   1. hacker club "$100 school servers" eg. solid-state/RACHEL
(*R*emote *A*reas
   *C*ommunity *H*otspots for *E*ducation and *L*earning)
   2. sustainable enterprise "$500 school servers" eg. HDD/Internet-in-a-Box

Best of all, progress is being made on a new vision for automated
pre-flight checklists, such that implementation/support costs(*) for each
above become predictable or at least sane.  Likewise OLPC required "ramp"
production runs (first 1000 units off the line) for a reason, as CTO John
Watlington reminded us, given we've quite enough disposable/toxic
technology surrounding us already:

    http://youtu.be/DHvfJ9OmH5A

So keep the ideas coming and see you next week!  Add to the Minutes/Agenda
here:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg

(*) Much like the $100 laptop, the $100 server will forever attract Moths
To The Flame, shills willfully failing to balance the benefits of digital
libraries against their true costs {community training,
solar/generator/fuel/grid/wiring, age-appropriate content/localization,
physical security, logistics, maintenance/off-site backups/spare parts,
admin/mgmt/coordination}.  In addition to connectivity/advocacy investments
critical to move beyond throwaway hardware and throwaway promises (would
you like some Free 4G LTE minutes for your school ;)


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> For this week's meeting, I've thrown up 7 higher-level challenges,
> inviting others to free-associate reflecting over George Hunt & Tim Moody's
> Herculian accomplishments in Haiti of the past 5 weeks(*), so we can derive
> where different parts of the world want us to go next:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg
>
> (*) Their story, laying the foundations for XSCE 5.1, while powerfully
> putting 3 Haiti schools on their feet, has NOT been written unfortunately,
> but daily hints keep popping up 5000+ km away at
> http://projectrive.wordpress.com , which is surely a good sign =)
>
> RSVP with Skype username if you can possibly join Thursday's 10AM NYC Time
> Call!  Or chime in likewise on our backchannel #schoolserver at
> http://webchat.freenode.net , *Thanks All*-
>
> --
> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>



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Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
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