[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.2 install images + sampler content coming soon!

[Adam Holt]

As we approach the finish line rapidly in coming weeks if not days, this
morning AnishM, AvniK, TimM and GeorgeH helped standardize our IIAB install
image filenames, example preview:

   iiab-6.2-YYMMDD-pixel-sampler-g2ea032e.img.zip

(Our emerging guidelines @ http://tinyurl.com/iiabimages should help many
others build Internet-in-a-Box images for many other OS's, HW platforms and
most important new regions/languages as well!)

Final install images for IIAB 6.2 will be posted to
http://xsce.org/download(s) in coming weeks.  As another example, Josh &
All have helped refine a "sampler" content suite that will appear within
most "official" IIAB images going forward (typically 3GB and larger) again
to spur more DIY librarians/curators with vivid examples, inspiring them to
build their own IIAB install images.  By default with Sugarizer etc
enabled/on, and great sample content ready-to-roll for particular languages
and regions of the world, e.g.:

   iiab-6.2-YYMMDD-raspbian-lite-medical-espanol-g2ea032e.img.zip

In other words IIAB install images should have filenames like:

   iiab-<version>-<YYMMDD>-<os-and-version>-<content-summary>
-<githash>.img.zip

Where...

   version = *auto-generated* IIAB version number
   YYMMDD = *auto-generated* date
   os-and-version = manual input into compress.sh
   content-summary = manual input into compress.sh
   githash = *auto-generated* githash (always begins with the letter g,
followed by 7 characters)

Conlusion: compress.sh
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab-factory/blob/master/box/rpi/compress.sh>
builds the install image, if you want to build one yourself: if so see page
5 of http://tinyurl.com/iiabimages for more on compress.sh as we fine-tune
this still-changing spec, *Thanks All for your ongoing input!*

PS More to follow as details emerge around the possibility of plug+play
content suites & constituent content packs, e.g. we also envision 100GB of
prefab medical/educational content suites downloadable in "6min 40sec"
while making your morning coffee IF we believe the hype about the many new
cities promising 2gbit/s connection to the home (not just Hong Kong
anymore, but more on our sneakernet-friendly distributed/offline web
ambitions later :-)
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