Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:12 PM, John Watlington <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi Martin,<br>
><br>
> Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay<br>
> edublog<br>
> volunteer list: <a href="mailto:uruguay-XO-coordination@googlegroups.com">uruguay-XO-coordination@googlegroups.com</a><br>
><br>
> I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project<br>
> tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's Spanish and English and<br>
> occasionally I post in Spanglish :-)<br>
><br>
> Tarun is traveling to India this week. Hopefully he or an engineer in<br>
> Montevideo can reply in a few days and we will work out the technical<br>
> details and server related software questions here.<br>
><br>
> A few preliminary questions.<br>
> 1 - I'm not clear on what you are saying here: "DB - assume<br>
> Postgres 8.x<br>
> series, support mySQL"<br>
> Is it PostGres or MySQL? (btw we already brought up a box w/MySQL, so<br>
> hopefully it will be easy to copy tables and queries over).<br>
><br>
> 2 - Should we have our own table in a single DB that is shared by<br>
> Moodle<br>
> and all other apps or do need our own DB. I think the DB will be used<br>
> for storing who posted what blog where, pending blogs and all that kid<br>
> of persistent data. Tarun may have other comments on what he needs in<br>
> the DB. We'll do no user auth or identity tracking until we know your<br>
> high level plan. Fall back in case that's not cooked by August is<br>
> cookies or worst case no identity and everyone looks the same.<br>
><br>
> 3 - We will bring up another XS and will put it on the internet. This<br>
> will be our primary pre-production server (e.g. we may use it for<br>
> final<br>
> beta test). Let me know if anyone has any concerns about that. Tony<br>
> who<br>
> worked on Nepal early on will image it and ship it to a co-lo and<br>
> we'll<br>
> manage it from there. Tony needs the recommended specs:<br>
> HW - memory, capacity disk drives, USB ports, NICs, etc.<br>
> SW - Moodle, Squid, etc. Anything beyond what you get with the XS<br>
> image<br>
> (e.g. do we need to install Apache and PHP). I'm not sure how we will<br>
> track the F7 dependencies, but I hope the sys admins can think about<br>
> that (still accepting more volunteers too ;-). Tony has notes from the<br>
> first time, so he says its no problem to take Wad's (or Martin's now)<br>
> latest build and go from there.<br>
><br>
> The HW and SW specs answer may be RTFM so don't hesitate to send a<br>
> link.<br>
> I'm asking to get the latest thinking. I'll update the wiki as needed<br>
> once I'm sure I have the right info.<br>
><br>
> Also, does anyone have the HW specs of the XS boxes deployed in<br>
> Uruguay?<br>
> I'll ask elsewhere if no one on this list has it.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I'll try to get that tmw. I'll be talking to the server team.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>The hardware specs used in Uruguay and Peru, could be a help for other pilots, <br>also the experience, (to avoid redundant errors), a knowledge base is necessary,<br>i can volunteer in helping document and wikifying all this info. <br>
</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <br>One Laptop Per Child<br><a href="mailto:rafael@laptop.org">rafael@laptop.org</a>