[Toronto-dev] Sat Sept 22: 11AM BBQ/Brunch & Community School Server Demo !

Kevin Gordon kgordon420 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 19:01:12 EDT 2012


Sned me directions, sir.  I seem to have purged the previous year's.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

>  Can we give the world's poorest schools "Solar-powered micro-clouds" ?
> Join our early demo BBQ/Brunch to find out:
>
>
>   11AM SATURDAY SEP 22 (autumn begins!)
>   Elora, Ontario -- 1+ hr West of Toronto
> *
> *
> RSVP for directions and/or if you need a ride from Toronto, Thanks !
> Volunteers will be presenting their progress on an exciting new Community
> School Server, evolving out of OLPC's open-source XS project:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1dnhU2F6EntepVXTgN8QpkME8fZVUuPjcCoMUfAVKbcc
>
> This new more modular approach incorporates schools' ongoing feedback from
> Haiti, Philippines, Jamaica, Madagascar, Australia & beyond -- while
> building on OLPC's original http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server
>
> *Teachers/hackers/volunteers/principals/educators especially welcome* to
> come take a look, exploring the early demo en route to San Francisco's
> global summit & hack sprint in a month (http://olpcSF.org/summit).
> Please ask questions to help us all get ready!
>
>
>     * how specifically can an open school server strengthen poor schools
> worldwide?
>     * giving them free & open tools to build tight learning communities of
> teachers/parents/admins & kids?
>     * where do librarians, curators & scout leaders critically fit in to a
> global culture of DIY learning?
>     * must 3rd world schools sit idly by as cloud-computing / iPhoney
> revolutions pass them by?
>     * what global culture+institutions will best sustain true grassroots
> learning?
>
> *Technical/Red Hat/Fedora folks* are invited to join our efforts and meet
> developers providing a firsthand look at our early Community School Server
> Demo:
>
>     * breaking apart OLPC's monolithic XS install into its core component
> / separate feature sets
>     * porting XS 0.7 from CentOS to the faster-moving Fedora 17 (which
> also runs on super-low power ARM processors like the 4-Watt XO-1.75 !)
>     * permitting easy migration to i386 and 64-bit platforms, and
> trivially to new versions of Fedora (so we won't again be stuck on Fedora 9
> for 2+ yrs, etc)
>     * encouraging flexible features your school can add without harming
> the rest, EG:
>        - WebDAV: *permits teachers to share files with students & one
> another*
>        - client-server user interface: *GUI administration by regular
> teachers, across network*
>        - book server: *easier integration of Pathagar-like libraries of
> free ebooks*
>        - Moodle's LMS: *proven free source (e)Learning Management System**,
> keep classes organized!*
> *
> *Remember to RSVP for directions and/or if you need a ride from Toronto.
> Those who cannot attend are strongly encouraged to post questions at
> http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/blog and on
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel where we'll be documenting
> our progress soon, THANKS*!*
> *
> *
> --
> Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net
>
> _______________________________________________
> Toronto-dev mailing list
> Toronto-dev at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/toronto-dev/attachments/20120920/75e83904/attachment.html>


More information about the Toronto-dev mailing list