[Server-devel] XSCE 6.0 Released

tkkang at nurturingasia.com tkkang at nurturingasia.com
Mon Mar 28 23:44:11 EDT 2016


My thanks to the people making the XSCE as a schoolserver of choice!

Great Easter egg!

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Moody [mailto:tim at timmoody.com]
>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:36 PM
>To: 'Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org', 
>'server-devel', 'Unleash Kids!', 'xsce-devel'
>Subject: [Server-devel] XSCE 6.0 Released
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>Years in the making!!  A cast of thousands!!
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>The School Server Community Edition (XSCE) version 6.0 is hereby officially
>released.  Thanks to the many contributors, developers, and testers.
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>In addition to releasing the School Server software, we have provided
>'short-cut' images for several platforms with more on the way.
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>Please read the following Release Notes and then proceed to
>https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation.
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>Release Notes for XSCE 6.0
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>What is it?
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>XSCE is the digital backbone for your education revolution. Put simply,
>School Server is an open-education project inspired by One Laptop Per Child
>to provide breakthrough digital learning tools to the world's poorest
>children.
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>A Rose by any other Name
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>Internally and in the source code we refer to this software as XSCE, the
>Community Edition of the XS server originally from OLPC. Students and
>teachers often know it as Internet in a Box, a collection of educational
>materials and applications found on the internet, but available on the
>server even without an internet connection. We also refer to it as a School
>Server since it is aimed at schools and other places where people learn and
>performs the function of a server.
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>What's new in XSCE Release 6.0?
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>This release extends the tools available to educators in three ways:
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>*	It makes available free and open source content that is available in
>many languages
>*	It provides new avenues for students to create, and share their work
>*	It contains number of advances to permit easy configuration,
>tailoring of content, and monitoring of student work.
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>Newly Available Open Source Educational Content
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>*	KA Lite brings the online features of Khan Academy to the offline
>School Server based classroom. There are videos, exercises, tests, and
>student tracking in a number of languages, all selectable via a Graphical
>User Interface. <https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/>
>https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/
>*	Searchable offline access to Wikipedia and other content such as
>Wiktionaries and TED Talks in a variety of subjects and many languages,
>provided by the Kiwix server technology.
><http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page> http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page
>*	RACHEL (a curated selection of offline materials)
><http://worldpossible.org/rachel/> http://worldpossible.org/rachel/
>*	Bring your own content by inserting a USB thumbdrive with content
>into the server having it immediately viewable by students.
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>Encourage Students to Write, Foster the Creative Process
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>*	Elgg provides the tools for generating social networks
><http://learn.elgg.org/en/2.0/intro/features.html>
>http://learn.elgg.org/en/2.0/intro/features.html
>*	ownCloud provides client based tools for storing and retrieving
>materials stored on the XSCE local cloud.
>*	DokuWiki (EXPERIMENTAL) provides a means for students to publish
>their work.  <https://www.dokuwiki.org/features>
>https://www.dokuwiki.org/features
>*	Wordpress (EXPERIMENTAL -- enable in "local_vars") gives students
>experience editing/sharing using a tool that is becoming an industry
>standard.
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>New Tools for Administering the XSCE School Server
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>*	A new Graphical User Interface (Admin Console) to enable services,
>select and download content, get information
>*	AWstats is a flexible tool for summarizing the web traffic on and
>through the server in graphical and detailed ways. <http://www.awstats.org/>
>http://www.awstats.org/
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>How do I get it?
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>There are three main methods of installing this software:
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>*	Use ansible and the git repository - this is the fall back when you
>need to customize or you have a platform for which we have not created an
>image.
>*	Use an image you download - for some commonly used platforms we
>create image files that you can download, put on a usb stick or sd card and
>boot in your new hardware.
>*	Create and use your own image - this will appeal to you if you want
>an image to use in multiple machines and are able to use the tools we
>provide to create it.
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>In each case you need hardware that has been assembled, but with nothing
>installed on it.
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>Detailed instructions on each of these methods is at
><https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation>
>https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation.
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