It is my understanding that each school will receive a server with their allotment of laptops, although in terms of hardware it may not be much more than an XO with a big hard drive. Is anyone focusing on the server software at this point? Also, what is likely to be the web server used? Is Apache too big (I presume)? --Tom
On 3/1/07, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman <at> gmail.com> wrote: > It is my understanding that each school will receive a server with > their allotment of laptops, although in terms of hardware it may not > be much more than an XO with a big hard drive. > > Is anyone focusing on the server software at this point? As mentioned in the February 17th Community News letter [1]: >7. School server: John Watlington is joining OLPC to head our School >Server project; he will also be helping out on completing the >Generation-1 system until a hardware architect can be found. > Also, what is likely to be the web server used? Is Apache too big (I presume)? School server development is *just now* beginning to ramp up, and so such things are still in the air. I wouldn't be surprised if a non-apache server was used (something in python, or just lighterweight in general), but the server would be sufficiently powerful to run Apache if they want its featureset. The Wiki has a relevant stub articles about the server you might be interested in [2]. And there are a couple Trac tickets to look at, specifcally [3]. Hope this helps. [1] http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2007-February/000045.html [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server [3] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/41(Continue reading)
On 3/2/07, MBurns <maburns <at> gmail.com> wrote: > As mentioned in the February 17th Community News letter [1]: > > >7. School server: John Watlington is joining OLPC to head our School > >Server project; he will also be helping out on completing the > >Generation-1 system until a hardware architect can be found. Oh! Great news! I've been monitoring sugar-dev and olpc-dev for discussion on the server too. Jim said discussion would happen around here... (damn! I see discussion is taking place in the wiki - heh, I'll have to somehow track that...) > > Also, what is likely to be the web server used? Is Apache too big (I presume)? > > School server development is *just now* beginning to ramp up, and so > such things are still in the air. I wouldn't be surprised if a > non-apache server was used (something in python, or just lighterweight > in general), but the server would be sufficiently powerful to run > Apache if they want its featureset. I am not too fussed about apache, but probably having a more complete packaging system (IOWs leave the rpm database there, and provide means for package installation), and probably supporting non-python software. I am coming from the Moodle (and other web-based learning tools) POV. Sadly, the range of existing software in this area in python is poor, most of the interesting activity is in the PHP space.(Continue reading)
On 3/2/07, MBurns <maburns <at> gmail.com> wrote: > As mentioned in the February 17th Community News letter [1]: > > >7. School server: John Watlington is joining OLPC to head our School > >Server project; he will also be helping out on completing the > >Generation-1 system until a hardware architect can be found. Oh! Great news! I've been monitoring sugar-dev and olpc-dev for discussion on the server too. Jim said discussion would happen around here... (damn! I see discussion is taking place in the wiki - heh, I'll have to somehow track that...) > > Also, what is likely to be the web server used? Is Apache too big (I presume)? > > School server development is *just now* beginning to ramp up, and so > such things are still in the air. I wouldn't be surprised if a > non-apache server was used (something in python, or just lighterweight > in general), but the server would be sufficiently powerful to run > Apache if they want its featureset. I am not too fussed about apache, but probably having a more complete packaging system (IOWs leave the rpm database there, and provide means for package installation), and probably supporting non-python software. I am coming from the Moodle (and other web-based learning tools) POV. Sadly, the range of existing software in this area in python is poor, most of the interesting activity is in the PHP space.(Continue reading)
On 3/1/07, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman <at> gmail.com> wrote: > It is my understanding that each school will receive a server with > their allotment of laptops, although in terms of hardware it may not > be much more than an XO with a big hard drive. > > Is anyone focusing on the server software at this point? As mentioned in the February 17th Community News letter [1]: >7. School server: John Watlington is joining OLPC to head our School >Server project; he will also be helping out on completing the >Generation-1 system until a hardware architect can be found. > Also, what is likely to be the web server used? Is Apache too big (I presume)? School server development is *just now* beginning to ramp up, and so such things are still in the air. I wouldn't be surprised if a non-apache server was used (something in python, or just lighterweight in general), but the server would be sufficiently powerful to run Apache if they want its featureset. The Wiki has a relevant stub articles about the server you might be interested in [2]. And there are a couple Trac tickets to look at, specifcally [3]. Hope this helps. [1] http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2007-February/000045.html [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server [3] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/41(Continue reading)
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