<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Priceless summaries Tim & Mike- We'll be having a detailed Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) call 10AM NYC Time this coming Thurs July 10th, particularly for deployment imlementers/designers/learning teams to voice their veritable needs, articulating feedback from the Bottom Billion now that IIAB and similar have been deployed for many semesters.<br>
</div><br>We're all trying hard to understand better how these 3 overlapping "offline digital library" products can now co-evolve, embrace, extend:<br><ol><li>nimble RACHEL can provide "entry-level" solid-state / mobile knowledge hotspots</li>
<li>IIAB "mid-range" digital libraries</li><li>eGranary providing multi-terabyte "Cadillac" digital libraries for the wealthiest schools.</li></ol><br>IIAB designers/maintainers will be on the call to listen, reflect and explain what might or might not be possible in 2014 -- please add to our shared Agenda here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg</a><br>
<br></div><i>Thanks & see y'all then !</i><br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Tim Moody <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@timmoody.com" target="_blank">tim@timmoody.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>RACHEL is attractive for the small size; the data is 29G, but the
compressed download is only about 18G. It is also all static html, so is
easy to integrate. I have put it onto XSCE along side of
Internet-in-a-Box, but we haven’t released that yet. Of course, since IIAB
is 20 times as large, it has a lot that RACHEL does not. For example,
RACHEL has 6000 English Wikipedia articles curated for school children, and they
are working on French and Spanish, whereas IIAB has about 40 languages, most
with full wikipedia. Both have Project Gutenberg and Khan Acadamy.
IIAB has OpenStreetMaps. But RACHEL has other medical and educational
content not in IIAB. In many ways they are complementary.</div>
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<div>Using the schoolserver XSCE as a front end for either or both of RACHEL and
IIAB, adds a number of services aimed at XOs, like collaboration and backup, and
more general functionality like internet caching, moodle, file sharing, as well
as tools to monitor and measure server usage.</div>
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<div>For one or two XOs putting RACHEL on an sd card directly in the laptop is a
good idea. As the number of laptops increases, delivering the content from
a server becomes attractive. We have run xsce on Raspberry Pi in the past
and there is a dedicated image for RACHEL. I saw a presentation that
estimated that up to 5-6 laptops could be served by raspi.</div>
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<div>For more laptops the NUC server George Hunt is configuring has a lot more
capacity while maintaining a modest power draw.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="curiouslee@gmail.com" href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com" target="_blank">Mike Lee</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 05, 2014 12:29 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="sthomas1@gosargon.com" href="mailto:sthomas1@gosargon.com" target="_blank">Steve Thomas</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="unleashkids@googlegroups.com" href="mailto:unleashkids@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">unleashkids@googlegroups.com</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [UKids] Need recomendation on School Server for
orphanage in Colombia</div></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Steve,
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<div>I am also looking to send a free content solution out to a very small
deployment this month. I might be testing the XSCE / Internet-In-A-Box solution
in the near future, but right now am downloading the RACHEL project, which is a
29GB image of popular free educational content that runs off a USB, hard drive,
Raspberry Pi server, or any other file server.</div>
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<div>Full Working Online Demo</div>
<div><a href="http://rachel.worldpossible.org" target="_blank">http://rachel.worldpossible.org</a></div>
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<div>Full content listing in Google Docs spreadsheet</div>
<div><a href="http://goo.gl/lBEKoP" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/lBEKoP</a><br></div>
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<div>How to download</div>
<div><a href="http://pi.worldpossible.org/howto.html" target="_blank">http://pi.worldpossible.org/howto.html</a><br></div>
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<div>Buy RACHEL</div>
<div><a href="http://worldpossible.org/ecommerce/" target="_blank">http://worldpossible.org/ecommerce/</a></div></div>
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<div>The deployment is a tiny community center (which I have visited and is in
the slum next to the second Lubuto Library) is run by one person who will be
challenged to make full use of the 5 XO-1s he has requested. As he is surrounded
by needful street children, he has no time to understand or manage a digital
content server. I will likely install RACHEL on a couple of the XOs by inserting
a 32gb SD card and configuring the proper video playback software. Though the
center has a broadband modem, their internet access and electricity is all
pre-paid and very spotty. So a wifi router solution won't work a lot of the
time. With SD cards in laptops, the center can continue accessing content on the
two XOs for several hours on internal battery.</div>
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<div>The full XSCE would be great for all the Lubuto locations and the boys I
have been mentoring would enjoy learning server-side skills. But the library
staff will still have to be sold on the idea.</div>
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<div>Mike</div>
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<div>P.S. With the recent update of the Etoys lessons from Christine Murakami in
Columbus along with existing Etoys Illinois and Sqeakland content, it makes me
wish there was an offline Etoys repository in the RACHEL collection...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sthomas1@gosargon.com" target="_blank">sthomas1@gosargon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I saw a discussion a while ago suggesting different
options. Can someone give me a recommendation of which one to
purchase? The orphanage has 30-40 kids right now and about 5 repurposed
laptops running Ubuntu and one XO (hoping to get more once we raise funds).
<div> </div>
<div>Would want to have Wikipedia and Khan Academy installed. Also what
I believe you call Internet in a Box (ie: a server that allows only
whitelisted sites). </div>
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<div>My wife and kids plan to head down to Colombia on July 20th so I would
want to purchase quickly and get setup.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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