[IIAB] OLPC Hackathon

[Doug Vargas]

great to hear, I'm glad the trip was worth it

On 05/13/2013 07:42 AM, Braddock wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I've been working with a really great group of half a dozen OLPC 
> volunteers up here in a big farmhouse in Ontario, Canada.
>
> This group is developing a server configuration called School Server 
> XS-CE.  Their server provides DHCP, web filtering, chat, NAT firewall, 
> backup, and other services for schools using the OLPC XO laptops.  
> Their baseline hardware is to install on a spare OLPC XO Laptop itself 
> with a USB Ethernet dongle for upstream.
>
> They are very keen to integrate Internet-in-a-Box.
>
> I have IIAB running on an XO Laptop with data on a USB hard drive, and 
> a written procedure for installing it on the School Server.
>
> However, IIAB is not yet ready to be packaged and deployed in this 
> way, on the same machine as the School Server.  It is easier for us to 
> deploy as a stand-alone network appliance which the School Server 
> discovers on the network and links to until we are more mature.  The 
> OLPC guys have written a CGI script which detects if an IIAB is on the 
> LAN and provides a link to it.
>
> The new version of School Server is set to be deployed in the next few 
> months.  There are 10,000 older School Servers already deployed in the 
> world serving maybe a million kids, so this is a large market for us.
>
> We are generating a lot of interest.
>
> -braddock
>