<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Wayan,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Chief Mike brings up a good point, and
perhaps we can put out this on your OLPC news blog as a guest post?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Guest post: Tony Pearson</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As the OLPC rolls out hundreds of laptops
at each school, there is a need as well for some</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">infrastructure that connects these students
to digital materials, and teachers to manage their</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">lesson plans and other activities.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have been working with OLPC Nepal
on their deployment of two servers. One is a library</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">server that provides digital content
in the local language, ebooks, pictures, and reference</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">materials. The other is a school
server that provides filtering, caching and connectitvy to the</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">outside internet.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">However well we design this, there will
be a need for local "system administrators" to </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">put together and maintain these systems
and perform the care-and-feeding needed to keep</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">the systems operating properly. While
the exact details of what stack of software will run on</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">these is still in development, we have
agreed they would be based on the free and open source</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">software bundle known as the LAMP platform,
which stands for the combination of:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><li>Linux operating system, Fedora
7 in this case</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><li>Apache web server</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><li>MySQL database</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><li>PHP, Perl and Python programming
languages</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"></ul></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">(See my post <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage?entry=understanding_lamp_platform_for_web"></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Understanding the LAMP platform</a>
for more details)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The local teams I am working with have
expressed concern that there is a lack of written</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">documentation. Actually, there
is probably plenty in both written and online form, we just</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">need to identify it, select the best
of the best, and either make that available somewhere </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">or send them physical books and CDs
of the content.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Want to help? Here's what we could
really use:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><ul></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><li>If you know of great books
or websites that have easy-to-understand instructions on</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">deploying and maintaining the LAMP platform,
how to administer Linux in general, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">how to write PHP programs, and other
tutorials, please post a comment below. For example, I have been</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">using the 900-page "Fedora 7 Unleashed"
from SAMS Publishing, but I suspect there are other books</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">and websites out there that others might
consider useful or easier to carry.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><li> If you have books that you
no longer need, because they are too introductory or </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">basic for you, consider donating them
to an OLPC project. Intro to Linux, Intro to PHP, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">intro to SQL database query language,
would all be useful.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><li>If you have a PC that you
aren't using, and are interested in helping out, consider</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">installing the OLPC server software
yourself, and document your experiences, this would</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">greatly help out testing out the bugs,
figuring out what needs tuning or adjustment, and</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">to see how well the procedures work
on different types of equipment. See the</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server">wiki</a>
for more details.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tony Pearson</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">XS Server development team</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Chief Mike Kouklis (USN Retired) wrote: <br>
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Thanx for your post here, as I'm also trying to also setup something here
at "The Kalibo Elementary School-II / Aklan Special Education Center"
(it's in a rural part of the Philippines :) <br>
My biggest problem down here besides frequent power interruptions, 300+VAC
surges, and loss(or <3kbps) of ISP, is lack of written documentation.
If you would consider donating ANY of your used books(Fedora 7 Unleashed)
cd's or other??? OLPC-Philippines, the Kalibo Public School's Staff and
I would greatly appreciate it.<br>
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines_Unang_Liwanag (First Light).
:)chief_mike_k@yahoo.com:)<br>
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