<div dir="ltr"><i>Thank you Tim & All -</i><br><br>Those who want a visual shortcut to prefab 'short-cuts' installable images, please bookmark the top-right of <a href="http://schoolsever.org">http://schoolsever.org</a>, which we will try to keep updated as new images are contributed by different members of this amazingly dynamic community! For those itching to get the latest hardware, here's just a running snapshot of recent successes to benefit all, from across the Internet-in-a-Box a.k.a. school server community as Spring 2016 begins!<br><ul><li>Strongly consider XO-1.5 or XO-4, those who want a hassle-free rugged+integrated chassis for the developing world, but more about that later :-)</li><li>Larger educational institutions should strongly consider Intel NUC hardware. Even if the 6th generation i3 NUC (an excellent piece of hardware, known as the 6i3 NUC, released near the end of 2015, is a steal at $249.00 @ <a href="http://frys.com/product/8732571">http://frys.com/product/8732571</a>) be warned that it hasn't fully stabilized, so you might want to delay your purchase a few weeks/months according to <a href="http://NUCblog.net">http://NUCblog.net</a></li><li>Raspberry Pi 3 images are currently equivalent to Raspberry Pi 2, but will be evolving fast as 64-bit
Fedora and possibly CentOS-on-ARM arise in coming months. Exciting Stuff...we're
very hopeful for <a href="http://Pine64.com">http://Pine64.com</a> as well!</li></ul><p><i>Huge Thanks who can point out errors/omissions/suggestions for our FAQ living document, or edit it directly, giving back to everyone: <a href="http://schoolserver.org/faq">http://schoolserver.org/faq</a></i><br></p><br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Moody</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@timmoody.com">tim@timmoody.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 11:36 AM<br>Subject: [UKids] XSCE 6.0 Released<br>To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT <a href="http://laptop.org">laptop.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a>>, server-devel <<a href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org">server-devel@lists.laptop.org</a>>, Unleash Kids! <<a href="mailto:unleashkids@googlegroups.com">unleashkids@googlegroups.com</a>>, xsce-devel <<a href="mailto:xsce-devel@googlegroups.com">xsce-devel@googlegroups.com</a>><br><br><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Rosewood Std Regular"">Years in the making!! A cast of thousands!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The School Server Community Edition (XSCE) version 6.0 is hereby officially released. Thanks to the many contributors, developers, and testers.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In addition to releasing the School Server software, we have provided 'short-cut' images for several platforms with more on the way.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Please read the following Release Notes and then proceed to <a href="https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation" target="_blank">https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div style="border-width:medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(238,238,238);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><h1 style="margin-bottom:12pt;border:medium none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:27pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Release Notes for XSCE 6.0</span></h1><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;border:medium none;padding:0in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">What is it?</span></h2></div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.2pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">XSCE is the digital backbone for your education revolution. Put simply, School Server is an open-education project inspired by One Laptop Per Child to provide breakthrough digital learning tools to the world’s poorest children.</span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">A Rose by any other Name</span></h3><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.2pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Internally and in the source code we refer to this software as XSCE, the Community Edition of the XS server originally from OLPC. Students and teachers often know it as Internet in a Box, a collection of educational materials and applications found on the internet, but available on the server even without an internet connection. We also refer to it as a School Server since it is aimed at schools and other places where people learn and performs the function of a server.</span></p><div style="border-width:medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(238,238,238);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;border:medium none;padding:0in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">What's new in XSCE Release 6.0?</span></h2></div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.2pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This release extends the tools available to educators in three ways:</span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">It makes available free and open source content that is available in many languages</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">It provides new avenues for students to create, and share their work</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">It contains number of advances to permit easy configuration, tailoring of content, and monitoring of student work.</span></li></ul><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Newly Available Open Source Educational Content</span></h3><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">KA Lite brings the online features of<span> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Khan Academy</span></b><span> </span>to the<span> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">offline</span></b><span> </span>School Server based classroom. There are videos, exercises, tests, and student tracking in a number of languages, all selectable via a Graphical User Interface.<a href="https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,120,192)">https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Searchable<span> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">offline</span></b><span> </span>access to<span> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Wikipedia</span></b><span> </span>and other content such as Wiktionaries and TED Talks in a variety of subjects and many languages, provided by the<span> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Kiwix server</span></b><span> </span>technology.<span> </span><a href="http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,120,192)">http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page</span></a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">RACHEL (a curated selection of offline materials)<span> </span><a href="http://worldpossible.org/rachel/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,120,192)">http://worldpossible.org/rachel/</span></a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Bring your<span> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">own content</span></b><span> </span>by inserting a<span> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">USB thumbdrive</span></b><span> </span>with content into the server having it immediately viewable by students.</span></li></ul><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Encourage Students to Write, Foster the Creative Process</span></h3><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Elgg provides the tools for generating social networks<span> </span><a href="http://learn.elgg.org/en/2.0/intro/features.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,120,192)">http://learn.elgg.org/en/2.0/intro/features.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">ownCloud provides client based tools for storing and retrieving materials stored on the XSCE local cloud.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">DokuWiki (EXPERIMENTAL) provides a means for students to publish their work.<span> </span><a href="https://www.dokuwiki.org/features" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,120,192)">https://www.dokuwiki.org/features</span></a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Wordpress (EXPERIMENTAL -- enable in "local_vars") gives students experience editing/sharing using a tool that is becoming an industry standard.</span></li></ul><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">New Tools for Administering the XSCE School Server</span></h3><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">A new Graphical User Interface (Admin Console) to enable services, select and download content, get information</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">AWstats is a flexible tool for summarizing the web traffic on and through the server in graphical and detailed ways.<a href="http://www.awstats.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,120,192)">http://www.awstats.org/</span></a></span></li></ul><div style="border-width:medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(238,238,238);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;border:medium none;padding:0in;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">How do I get it?</span></h2></div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.2pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">There are three main methods of installing this software:</span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Use ansible and the git repository - this is the fall back when you need to customize or you have a platform for which we have not created an image.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Use an image you download - for some commonly used platforms we create image files that you can download, put on a usb stick or sd card and boot in your new hardware.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Create and use your own image - this will appeal to you if you want an image to use in multiple machines and are able to use the tools we provide to create it.</span></li></ul><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:19.2pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">In each case you need hardware that has been assembled, but with nothing installed on it.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;line-height:19.2pt;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Detailed instructions on each of these methods is at<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,120,192)">https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation</span></a>.<span class=""></span></span></p><span class=""><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></font></span></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">
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