[Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-13 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Tony, I think we should finalize the Fedora + XS server and get it shipped to Glen by the end of next week. My list of SW is: PostGreSQL Moodle XS Apache 2.0 PHP Networking should be setup to plug and play at Glen's hosting site. If we can get an image on CD too that let us boot and

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog v0.1 Available for Comment!

2008-06-12 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
the way Moodle does it and no kids or teachers complain its OK with me. Let me get the hosted XS online ASAP so we can see that and try it out. Thanks, Greg S -Original Message- From: Tarun Pondicherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:46 AM To: Greg Smith

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan (Tarun Pondicherry)

2008-06-10 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, Thanks for the comments and great progress! I'll try to respond to all open items in one pass. - On group edit. Thanks to Alex for the link and sanity check on collaboration support in Browse. I think we should let it go for this first implementation. When Browse does collaborate at

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for

2008-06-05 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, We have a disconnect about the target OS! Its my fault for not having tighter synch with tech leads in Uruguay. Sorry. I'm forking a private thread and I'll get it ironed out ASAP. Please hold the XS bring up until I can nail down the correct target XS. If Uruguay is on a non-standard

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-04 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin, You're right we are closer than I thought on first read. Thanks for the added comments. I want to minimize the scope but I see feature creep coming so we better plan for it in advance. Here are some comments on these: - understand a simple level of identity roles (provided by XS

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:04 PM To: Greg Smith (gregmsmi) Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update) On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the school server plan, keep us

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-04-30 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi John et al, One minor clarification. I think you mean L3 (IP) VPN (virtual private network) not VLAN (virtual LAN). Let me know if that is not right as you can send an IP packet from one VLAN to another but not from one VPN to another (except in special cases). BTW sounds like people have

Re: [Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear (Martin Langhoff)

2008-04-17 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, FYI I don't know what is supposed to work but they have tested a bunch in Nepal. I believe that a DLINK DWL2100AP was the first choice in Nepal. Looks like they last tested Lantech WL54G BR with pretty good results. See: http://blog.olenepal.org/ latest post. You may want to check

Re: [Server-devel] Drupal on OLPC? (Martin Langhoff)

2008-03-20 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin et al, Thanks for the comments and direction. I'm still working on options for the Uruguay requirement (BTW now rewritten, verified with tech lead in Montevideo and posted in wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requiremientos_Para_XO). We want any new work to be available in all