Hi On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:12 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay > > edublog > > volunteer list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project > > tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's Spanish and English and > > occasionally I post in Spanglish :-) > > > > Tarun is traveling to India this week. Hopefully he or an engineer in > > Montevideo can reply in a few days and we will work out the technical > > details and server related software questions here. > > > > A few preliminary questions. > > 1 - I'm not clear on what you are saying here: "DB - assume > > Postgres 8.x > > series, support mySQL" > > Is it PostGres or MySQL? (btw we already brought up a box w/MySQL, so > > hopefully it will be easy to copy tables and queries over). > > > > 2 - Should we have our own table in a single DB that is shared by > > Moodle > > and all other apps or do need our own DB. I think the DB will be used > > for storing who posted what blog where, pending blogs and all that kid > > of persistent data. Tarun may have other comments on what he needs in > > the DB. We'll do no user auth or identity tracking until we know your > > high level plan. Fall back in case that's not cooked by August is > > cookies or worst case no identity and everyone looks the same. > > > > 3 - We will bring up another XS and will put it on the internet. This > > will be our primary pre-production server (e.g. we may use it for > > final > > beta test). Let me know if anyone has any concerns about that. Tony > > who > > worked on Nepal early on will image it and ship it to a co-lo and > > we'll > > manage it from there. Tony needs the recommended specs: > > HW - memory, capacity disk drives, USB ports, NICs, etc. > > SW - Moodle, Squid, etc. Anything beyond what you get with the XS > > image > > (e.g. do we need to install Apache and PHP). I'm not sure how we will > > track the F7 dependencies, but I hope the sys admins can think about > > that (still accepting more volunteers too ;-). Tony has notes from the > > first time, so he says its no problem to take Wad's (or Martin's now) > > latest build and go from there. > > > > The HW and SW specs answer may be RTFM so don't hesitate to send a > > link. > > I'm asking to get the latest thinking. I'll update the wiki as needed > > once I'm sure I have the right info. > > > > Also, does anyone have the HW specs of the XS boxes deployed in > > Uruguay? > > I'll ask elsewhere if no one on this list has it. > > I'll try to get that tmw. I'll be talking to the server team. > > The hardware specs used in Uruguay and Peru, could be a help for other pilots, also the experience, (to avoid redundant errors), a knowledge base is necessary, i can volunteer in helping document and wikifying all this info. -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero One Laptop Per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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