I dont know how I got on this email list. I am an English teacher who can barely work a computer but I DO need computers for a school in the slums of Nairobi Africa that my students are sponsoring. We have raised money for electricity and internet connection. Does any one know how I can get free computers shipped to my 450 kids who get 1 meal a day and who have amazing courage and intelligence. The school is called The Mercy Care Centre. You can google it to meet my children. Thanks--I've been reading the emails you have sent me for a month and am blown away by your skill and lingo. Cheers, betsy garrard in Lynchburg VA<br>
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From: Tony Pearson <tpearson@us.ibm.com><br>
To: server-devel@lists.laptop.org<br>
Sent: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 6:40 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 10, Issue 21<br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Team,</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Ok, I build some sample screens for discussion purposes. These are static HTML, and I hosted them</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>up on my personal website (<A href="http://www.990tony.com/olpc" target=_blank>http://www.990tony.com/olpc</A>) so that you can all see them from either your XO laptop</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>or regular PC.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>==> Home Page</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2><A href="http://www.990tony.com/olpc/index.htm" target=_blank>http://www.990tony.com/olpc/index.htm</A></FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Here I chose a simple 2x3 table grid. Graphics I pulled off the OLPC and OLE-Nepal websites. The Nepali text</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>was cut and pasted from (<A href="http://www.laptop.org/index.ne.html" target=_blank>www.laptop.org/index.ne.html</A>) just for example purposes only. I don't speak Nepali,</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>so no idea what these words mean. Basically, a simple "Welcome to the Schoolserver!", with options to click</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>on the "Moodle" logo and the "OLE Nepal" logo as launch points.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>For the XO home page on the Browse activity, we could change the "Schoolserver" link to point to the appropriate</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>school server IP address or hostname.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I chose a simple pallet of white and green for this screen.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>While the Nepali script reads beautifully on Firefox on my PC, it does not show up at all on my XO, not in Brose,</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>not in Opera, not in Firefox. In all cases the UTF-8 is converted to tiny boxes with small numbers inside. Perhaps</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I need a "Nepali Language Pack" for my G1G1 version of my XO laptop?</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>==> Information Screen</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2><A href="http://www.990tony.com/olpc/info.php" target=_blank>http://www.990tony.com/olpc/info.php</A></FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>This is actually just a one-liner <?php phpinfo(); ?> that I found useful enough for debugging that we might</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>consider making it part of the official build. Note that in the above case, you are getting the details of my</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>ISP hosting service (IpowerWeb) which has PHP v4, Apache, MySQL v4, etc. Lots of good details here.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>==> Moodle Main Screen</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2><A href="http://www.990tony.com/olpc/moodle1.htm" target=_blank>http://www.990tony.com/olpc/moodle1.htm</A></FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I have put "moodle" as a directory: /var/www/html/moodle and this page is a crude emulation of the main</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>page. (Sorry my HTML skills are not very good) Note that the "You Are Not Logged In (Login)" appears</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>both in the upper right corner and lower center of the page. Both are active links, you can follow them to </FONT><br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>the Logic screen (see below). The course schedule and calendar are just flat JPG images for show.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Note in the upper right corner I also have put a pull-down menu. The current Moodle only supports English,</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I went and added a second choice "Nepali (in local script)" as a second choice. Again, just for show.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>==> Moodle Login Screen</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2><A href="http://www.990tony.com/olpc/moodle2.htm" target=_blank>http://www.990tony.com/olpc/moodle2.htm</A></FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>On this screen, if you already have a username/password, then you can enter them into the left and</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>push LOGIC button. There are also buttons for "Guest Login" and "I forgot my Userid/Password".</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>On the right panel are the steps involved to create a new account. If you select "New Account" </FONT><br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>then you are taken to the "New Account" screen (see below).</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>As for the statement "( Cookies must be enabled in your browser )" I would like to get rid of that,</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>or perhaps find out if there are special actions needed for cookies in the "Browse" activity. I have </FONT><br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>both Opera and FireFox2 on my XO laptop for testing purposes, but would like everything to work</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>under "Browse" activity.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>==> Moodle New Account</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2><A href="http://www.990tony.com/olpc/moodle3.htm" target=_blank>http://www.990tony.com/olpc/moodle3.htm</A></FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>On this screen, we see that the upper bar maintains a history. Tucson-->Login-->New Account</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>sort of like a "You Are Here" indicator. I like that.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Here the assumption is that the user already has an email account of some kind. I went ahead</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>and made "Nepal" the default country.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>==> My thoughts on this. These are the standard Moodle screens, however, I have seen discussion</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>about "Single Sign On" (SSO) as well as using public/private keys, based on XO nicknames and UUID</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>values, machine serial numbers, and so on. I would think a Moodle username/password would be </FONT><br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>enough (perhaps in combination with PAM modules) to provide the additional features like "shared</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>folders" and "personal folders" that could serve to collaborate files, as well as serve as backups.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>School --> Grade --> Teacher --> Teams --> Students</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>School -- files for that particular school, the cafeteria lunch menu or vacation schedule for example, that applies to all grades</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Grade -- files for just the second graders, or just the sixth graders, age appropriate, students read-only for their grade level. Teachers of that grade level can write access.</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Teacher -- files for an individual teacher's class. Teacher has write access to their area only, Students read-only</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Teams -- If the teacher wants to group kids off into teams to work on a project, then she could </FONT><br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>create teams, and each student would then be assigned to a specific team. All students on that</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>team would have read/write access to the files. Teacher would have read/write access. Other</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>students would have no access at all. (When I taught High School economics, I would split class</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>into four teams, and each ran their own "mock company" or their own "stock portfolio" and we </FONT><br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>would treat it like a competition)</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Students -- each individual student has read/write access to their own files.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Whatever scheme we come up with, I would hope that</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>(a) For each XO, it could determine the default username, based on the XO serial number/UUID,</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>browser cookies, or whatever.</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>(b) Allow an override, so that if another student's laptop is down, they could enter their username/password</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>onto a fellow student's laptop, and access their files that way</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>(c) In the event a broken laptop is replaced with a new laptop, there are administration ways to indicate</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>that this is now the default username for this laptop, and to re-attach or re-assign the folders/files accordingly.</FONT> <br>
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<FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Thanks</FONT> <br>
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Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669<br>
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Blog: <A href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage" target=_blank>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage</A> AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist </FONT></TR></TBODY></TABLE><br>
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