<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">This week our call will focus on some urgent implementation choices prep'ing new school server integration shipping off in Haiti starting Monday June 30th, with several follow-on deployments in July/August/Septembet very likely using near-identical clones of this XSCE "5.1" on Fedora 20 on the Intel i3 NUC.  And increasingly standardized 3G routers and WiFi access points?<br>

<br>So this will be a very focused engineering/implementation call, as we make a few critical+final deployment/networking choices, affecting some Very Promising schools around Haiti and likely beyond.  Do jump right in annotating our agenda/minutes here:<br>

<div><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg</a><br><br></div><div>Thanks greatly for your help if you can join, even just finding alternative sourcing of older AP's like low-end-but-battle-tested <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">TP-LINK WR841ND and fancier 3G routers like the</span></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Netgear MBR1210<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">and the midrange ZTE MF25, all being very strongly considered this year in Haiti.  For a straight AP. we much prefer Village Telco's <a href="http://store.villagetelco.com/mesh-potatoes/mesh-potato-2-basic.html" target="_blank">http://store.villagetelco.com/mesh-potatoes/mesh-potato-2-basic.html</a>)<br>

<br>Yet on a practical level, Haiti deployments have found Amazon/eBay-style express logistics and steady inventory of identical, superaffordable replaceable COTS parts/stock to be more important to Haitian schools/churches/orphanages networking to support each other.  Rather than engineering perfection in each school, a "Model T" mass-produced/mass-inventoried/mass-tested solution fits the skillsharing bill.</span>  Making the Economist's parody cover last week ring all too true -- will Amazon be serving-us-fries-with-that on Mars? ;)<br>

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<br><i>In any case, Thanks for Your Help if you can contribute getting this investment right -- if so do send your Skype username in advance, and/or say hi 10AM Thur NYC Time, with our irc backchannel #schoolserver at <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net" target="_blank">http://webchat.freenode.net</a></i><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div>
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