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<DIV>One thing I didn’t think of on the call is that we should get the xovis
playbook fixed for this deployment as well.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=holt@laptop.org
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 26, 2014 11:25 AM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [support-gang] Haiti School Server Call - Thur 10AM NYC
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<DIV>Thanks all for a very rapid-paced meeting this morning, with a lot of
decisions moving us forward for Haiti especially, to support Ghana and many
other "Peace Corps" deployments later. Two decisions that stand out during
this call, in brief, if I understood them:<BR></DIV><SPAN
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create XSCE 5.1 on F20 for NUC for Haiti, incorporating the many fixes.tweaks
of the past 5 months, with 5.1.1 (or such) for many more platforms (XO’s, MSI,
Cubox, Raspberry Pi, etc) arriving later this summer, with better
Pathagar/Moodle support at that time<BR></SPAN>
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retain completely open Internet as the XSCE default out-of-the-box, with
simple instructions for Haitian schools that (all) ask us for a white-list to
protect their youngest kids from exploitive commercialism, while permitting
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<P>Comments/suggestions should be added to the minutes here of item (g): <A
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg</A><BR></P>
<P>Thanks All and see you in a week Thursday July 3rd as all this hardware
implementation comes together!<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Adam Holt <SPAN
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<DIV>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>
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<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>
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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
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WR841ND and fancier 3G routers like the</SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Netgear MBR1210<BR> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN
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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><A
href="http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/print-covers/20140621_cna400.jpg"
target=_blank>http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/print-covers/20140621_cna400.jpg</A><BR><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
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