[IIAB] Internet In A Box help.

[Braddock]

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Denny, Greg, IIAB volunteers, et al,
I've added the IIAB mailing list to the CC list.  Please join and keep
the IIAB mailing list in the loop, the people there can help.

IIAB folks, Greg is doing some customization of IIAB for Haiti.

Greg, for the French Khan Academy you probably want to install Khan
Academy Lite.  We intend to use Khan Academy Lite for IIAB in the
future because in addition to the more complete video library it
provides teacher tools to chart progress and exercises.

Tony Anderson's Project Bernie School Server project uses Khan Academy
Lite to supplement IIAB and he has scripts for downloading the videos.
 I can put you in touch with him if you'd like.

- -braddock


On 04/24/2014 01:55 PM, Denny Baumann wrote:
> To all,
> 
> Just a note to say that I had a very productive meeting with Greg
> Prysby from the NOVA LUG earlier today.  Greg wants to take a look
> at IIAB and then help us "customize" it to meet our needs for the
> schools of Haiti. He has already communicated with Braddock
> regarding Github and will attempt to use as much of Braddock's work
> as is possible.  We will keep all of this in the open so that it
> can benefit anyone else who might like our approach to the task at
> hand.
> 
> Greg will need some time to come up with a plan for this
> customization, but this means that those of us who are working on
> the "content" part of IIAB now need to get our materials together
> either in Dropbox or somewhere else so that we can move it to IIAB
> when the time comes.  I know that Braddock is already doing some of
> this but others need to look at the Kahn Academy materials and
> other French or Creole based materials.   My hope is that others
> step forward from either the LUG or elsewhere to help in this
> project so that it doesn't become too much of a burden for Braddock
> and Greg.  Please respond to this email to let me know how you are
> prepared to help.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Denny
> 
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>>
> 
This is an earlier email which you may not have gotten:
> Gentlemen,
>> 
>> Thanks for your interest in our computer project and Internet In
>> A Box.   If you haven't already done so,  I recommend that you
>> look at Braddock Gaskill's presentation to the San Gabriel Valley
>> LUG which is available on-line at "internet-in-a-box.org 
>> <http://internet-in-a-box.org>".  Braddock has done an
>> outstanding job at producing a device which offers a lot of data
>> to schools which simply don't have an Internet connection or
>> can't afford it. Braddock needs to keep the device rather
>> "generic" so that it can be deployed to countries around the
>> world.  He also supports our modifying IIAB so as to either
>> improve it or just to make the contents more applicable to one
>> specific country, such as Haiti in our case.  Meantime, we are
>> searching for suitable educational content which we want to load
>> into IIAB.  We are doing this through our contacts at the Kahn
>> Academy, U.S. Library of Congress, the Haitian Department of
>> Education and numerous individuals who are active in supporting
>> schools throughout Haiti.
>> 
>> The problem is that neither Bob nor I have the technical
>> knowledge needed to make the necessary changes to IIAB.    While
>> we are currently using Dropbox to store the revised data, we now
>> need to modify IIAB's directory etc. to access the new data once
>> it is loaded onto the device.   Once this is done, we hope to
>> store the revised contents of IIAB onto our server and then clone
>> it onto more devices as they are needed in Haiti.   I should add
>> that ALL of this effort is being done as a charitable endeavor.
>> Braddock is making IIAB available for well under $200.00 and we
>> intend to do the same.   Our resourses are very limited.  We have
>> a shop in Warrrenton, which you are welcome to visit, and a small
>> group of volunteers who have refurbished more than 3000 computers
>> and placed them into schools here in Virginia and a lot of other 
>> locations.  Literacy Volunteers of Fauquier County pays our
>> light bill and we rely on donations with which we purchase repair
>> parts as needed.   I have made 2 trips to Haiti and will gladly
>> show you pictures which depict the results of our efforts.
>> 
>> I am open to any suggestions as to how we might proceed.  I have 
>> an IIAB device and a spare HD which contains the educational
>> data from IIAB.  You are welcome to look at the code which runs
>> IIAB and then suggest ways in which you would change it to
>> incorporate the revised content.   I will gladly meet with you or
>> anyone else who might be able to help us on this project.  Just
>> let Bob or I know when and where and we'll do our best to make
>> it.  Bob lives in Sterling and I'm in Warrenton.
>> 
>> Thanks again for your interest in our project and I look forward 
>> to working with you in the near future.
>> 
>> Denny Baumann
>> 
> 

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