I'm working on a project with a number of high-school kids from Littleton Public Schools at one of the elementary schools. Its an after school project where we build computers with donated (read: busted and old) parts. Lately we've started a second project based around the LTSP project. The idea is to build cheap, easy to admin labs out of Linux and spare computer parts. One of the areas we are working on is administration. Most of the people running labs in schools tend to have very little computer knowledge, and have a serious time doing decent administration. LTSP gets us around part of the problem--its a lot easier to administer one server than 30-40 individual boxes. However, what we need is a set of very simple administration tools that are extremely easy to use (this will have to include install and setup). Is there already a project in the works? If not, we are planning to create a SourceForge project and begin the development of these tools. We plan to start with the development of simple Perl scripts to retrieve data from and manipulate data in the different config files (and restart services and good things like that). Of course, that won't be easy enough for the vast majority of school admins to make them want to use the system. Since most of these admins use Windows, there must be an overwhelming reason for them to switch (at least in their labs). They will not want to learn new tools, and the more cryptic those tools, the less likely they will want to use this system (after all, they don't have that much time in th efirst place). So, the second step would be to build easy to use GUI tools (think dumbed down but powerful) that sit on top of the scripts and use them for all interaction. I have a theoretically step three and four that would involve SNMP, but that is to far off in the distance to discuss at this point. Is this of interest to anyone? If it is, please contact me. We meet Mondays, so I would like to have some basic information on community reaction so we can begin forging the plans for the next couple months.
Thanks for your interest, -- Jared McIntyre Deep Fried Software Deep Fried LLC Owner/Engineer http://www.dfsoftware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
