[IIAB] Large batch jobs running and tasks

[Braddock]

Hi guys,

Play with what we have so far running on the actual GoFlex Home hardware:

http://home.braddock.com:29113/iiab

"Books", "Video", and "Maps" are live.

Likely to be slowed down by all the batch activity going on described below.

There are a lot of things to be done, if anyone wants to step up:

1) The UI needs work.  Back buttons and other consistencies.

2) I'm going to need some sort of UI integration with kiwix.  This 
requires someone coming up to speed on building kiwix and figuring out 
how to add home buttons etc to it.  Probably also need filtering by 
language.  (of course we have Emmanuel himself on this list now)

3) We need a curator for the collection of kiwix ZIM wikimedia files.  
They are not all particularly well labelled and perhaps should be 
divided into sub-categories - many are Wikipedia variants, but some are 
other things.

4) If someone can take the GoFlex Satellite from me and get a reliably 
booting and working chroot environment running on it that would be 
helpful.  I already have things running in a Debian chroot on the GoFlex 
Home, but the Satellite is gonna need some more hacking to get wireless 
to behave and eradicate the Seagate crapware that is on it without 
actually breaking the hotspot functionality.

The zhen machine and one of its friends is currently full-search 
indexing 160GB of compressed text.  That will probably finish in about 
24 hours.  Also, the NFS server on which the dataset is hosted is busy 
chugging away at yet another attempt to import the entire planet of 
street maps (my attempt last week was a partial failure).

So things may be a bit slow if you are using zhen or playing with the 
GoFlex Home link above.

PS - my OLPC contact who is going to Africa next week has not been 
responding to recent e-mails, so I don't know if that is going to 
happen.  If it does happen, we'd need to ship out on Thursday to get it 
to him Friday to take on his flight Monday.

-braddock