On 17 April 2012 23:39, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your notes. > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > <srid...@laptop.org.au> wrote: > But you have some economies of scale :-) do once per school vs do it > on every machine in the school. > > The school XS can be shipped preconfigured, sidestepping the "local > configuration" barrier. > > Thanks for those answers, they clarify a few things for me. I'm with > you on the "show an XS icon in the network neighbourhood" part, but I > don't see the "configure XMPP server on _every_ XO" as a good > tradeoff, if I can prep an XS once (maybe in a central location). > > It's relatively easy to prep an XS + switch + APs + cat 5 cabling, > label all the RJ-45 connectors, and ship it all in a big box. The > hardest part is guessing the cat 5 lengths right ;-) -- much better to > ship a crimping tool, cable, RJ-45s.
Our deployment methodology appears to be different from the others I've seen in other countries. We are trying to scale *down*, not up. I have a rule here that no technology is introduced unless it can be deployed and managed by a non-technical person with minimal training. Shipping pre-configured servers and other infrastructure builds a dependency that will cause problems later down the track, and creates a burden on us. We generally do not have any support and only begrudging permission from education departments. We are working around this by building/configuring the technology so that the teachers and communities can totally own the deployment for themselves. Unfortunately the XS in its current state does not allow for this. Sridhar _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
