> There's a deployment guide that gives a lot of good advice, but it > is not a public document and I only have an old draft of it.
If you are referring to the Deployment Guide that I wrote, it is posted in the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide enjoy. -walter On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giulia D'Amico wrote: > > Bernie, > > > > It's great your support for Sugar, but before taking any decision, > > please be avare that the Municipality of Florence in primis but also all > > those financing the program in the city never make this kind of request. > > The Muncipality of Florence needs to know that OLPC won't be able to > > support custom builds > > This, or the laptops will have to remain in English. I don't think this > is acceptable for the municipality. Also, OLPC support for regular builds > at this time is limited to one new release every 6 months. > > > > and those laptops will be isolated and not connected to OLPC server. > > There's actually no necessity to isolate the laptops just get them in > Italian. However, the only benefits would be: > > - check for OS updates, which are going to be issued every 6 months > or so; > > - check for the "remote-kill" feature which is part of the anti-theft > scheme, and has never been enabled in any deployment country to my > knowledge. > > What OLPC means by "not supported" should not be overstated. Kim may > want to correct me on this, but the way I interpret it is: "please don't > call us if your custom build has problems". Of course, when one finds a > problem that can be reproduced also in Update.1, you can report it and > ask it to be fixed in the next release, of course, subject to the severity > of the problem and the available engineering resources. > > The reality of things is a much more relaxed relationship than what > contractual clauses normally states: the bug database is publicly > accessible and the OLPC support gang and developers are usually > available online to help users solve these problems. > > > > As second, Florence designetd some laptops to > > developing countries, in this case will you also build locale expertise?? > > This is why I thought it was strange that Florence would order the > laptops directly. We need to plan ahead what types of keyboards, and > what language the laptops should come with. > > In case the keyboard needs to be designed, it will take some time. > To support a new language, we should coordinate with volunteers of > the target cities. Some languages, such as Amharic, present additional > difficulties that need to be analyzed by OLPC. > > There's a deployment guide that gives a lot of good advice, but it > is not a public document and I only have an old draft of it. > > I could do some of this work myself, but we should again consider how > this work will not appear in an official OLPC build until the next > formal release 6 months from now. > > > > I don't think it is Florence's desire, but I can be wrong. In both > > cases, I will ask specifically the Deputy Mayor of Florence (who signed > > the agreement) to put everything on paper about their specific > requirements. > > Sure, that would be best. > > What I asked above is what the people of OLPC Italia who are presumably > going to deploy and support the laptops asked for. So it may be best for > them to meet again with the deputy major next week and find a common plan. > > > > -- > \___/ > _| o | Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ > \|_X_| "It's an education project, not a laptop project!" > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
