Using

1. Sneakernets: Bringing the Mountain to You Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor Information Systems Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu [email_address] @sameerverma Seminar Department of Computing University of the West Indies, Jamaica Unless noted otherwise

2. Content Store Transport Use

3. sneakernet Walking data across buildings on a storage device from one computer to another. High bandwidth, high latency. “ The theoretical capacity of a Boeing 747 filled with Blu-Ray discs is 595,520,000 Gigabytes, resulting in a 245,829 Gbit/s flight from New York to Los Angeles.” – Wikipedia

4. ~ 70% http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

5. Internet Access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Penetration.png

6. Can information flow like water? http://ltse.env.duke.edu/files/ltse/images/India%20Persian%20wheel%20irrigation%20Ganges%20Plain.jpg

7. A water “battery”. Can we build information batteries?

8. Viva La Revolución Can we spark a paradigm shift by providing equitable access to information all over the world?

9. Somebody is finally thinking of the children! To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. — OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte

10. in the beginning...

11. ooh! laptop! (July 2007)

12. Give 1 Get 1 – Nov 2007

13. Next thing I know... De facto founder of OLPC San Francisco http://olpcsf.org

14. Then I run into this guy... Click here to learn more...

15. Next thing I know... De facto founder of OLPC Jamaica! http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

16. A tremendous “Thank you!” to the UWI community for making this happen. http://olpcjamaica.org.jm Providence Basic School, Kingston, Jamaica August Town Primary School, August Town, Jamaica

17. OLPC

18. Mission OLPC's mission is to empower the world's poorest children through education We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

19. Worldwide 40+ countries, 30+ languages, 2.2+ million laptops, 350+ applications

20. Where no computers have gone before...

21. School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima

22. Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha

23. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

24. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ulaanbaatar

25. Ethopia http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/

26. Ghana http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2921143251/

27. Cameroon http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set-72157611290673682/

28. Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School

29. Colombia http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia

30. Peru http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru

31. Rwanda http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rwanda

32. Iraq http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Iraq

33. Haiti http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haiti

34. Solomon Islands http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands

35. Nepal http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Nepal

36. Uruguay: Every primary school child has an XO. http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/

37. postage stamps too!

38. 2.2 million XO laptops and counting See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

39. Learn more... http://laptop.org

40. XS: OLPC School Server The Internet in a Box (unsung hero too!)

41. What does the XS look like? Fantasy View

42. What does the XS look like? Reality View http://www.flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/149706221/

44. Has the necessary crunch

47. DHCP

48. NAT/Masquerading

52. Backup files

57. Mesh (IEEE 802.11s draft)

58. Infrastructure (Access Point)

61. This XO can assign other teachers, course creators, and other such roles

65. links via Apache (add Apache config)

68. Layout (Access Points)

69. Hardware vs Load Benjamin Tran's Master's thesis : jmeter to load and and nmon to record the load

71. Requires a SD card (4GB, preferably class 6)

72. External USB hard drive (may need own power)

73. USB-Ethernet for backhaul.

76. Maybe glue on a large heat sink? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndevil/3535934684/

78. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.

79. Something in the mini ITX form-factor works well.

80. Fanless units are better

82. 2 to 4GB RAM

83. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.

84. This type of a machine usually works in environments with good power resources. http://www.flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/149706221/

86. 4 to 16GB RAM

87. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.

88. Data center hosting is also an option. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamisonjudd/2433102356/

89. School Server

90. Screenshots XS Moodle Screen Shots

91. Main page

92. Front page settings

93. Front page roles

94. List of users

95. Roles and permissions

96. Presence service

97. Antitheft controls

98. Add a course

99. Site files

100. Question bank

101. A zip file, which includes content and structure for the entire course! Moving courses ...deploy in Madagascar! Create in San Francisco...

102. XS: Internet in a box No Internet? No power? No problem :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XS http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server

103. Pathagar: A Book Server Open Publication Distribution System Pathagar : Path + Agar पाठागार : पाठ + आगार A Practical Hindi-English Dictionary http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/caturvedi/

105. Video

106. Images

107. Internet Access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Penetration.png

108. How do we get books to here ?

110. Catalogs enable the aggregation, distribution, discovery, and acquisition of electronic publications.

111. OPDS Catalogs use existing or emergent open standards and conventions, with a priority on simplicity. http://code.google.com/p/openpub

115. HTTP-based web pages that allow searching, listing, download, etc.

117. Requires python-django as a framework

118. Creates a website for managing and accessing books

119. Allows you to add books + metadata on books

120. Catalog allows for listing

121. Search feature

122. OPDS Feed, which is Atom (XML) based.

124. Get Books activity Written by Sayamindu Dasgupta http://sayamindu.randomink.org Get it at http://github.com/sayamindu/pathagar

127. Courses, teachers, students, assignments, assessment

129. Books, catalog, searches, description.

130. Based on OPDS

131. Catalog

132. Add a book

133. OPDS feed

134. OPDS feed – source view

135. Get Books Activity

136. Pick a repository

137. Searching for Gulliver

138. Found Gulliver

139. Get Book

140. Downloading Gulliver's Travels

142. Fits deployment models where a curriculum isn't a central theme

143. Library or media access center approach

144. Easy to replicate and scale/federate

145. Pathagar OPDS Book Server Get it at http://github.com/sayamindu/pathagar Pathagar : Path + Agar पाठागार : पाठ + आगार

146. Some day this part will be fast and cheap Until then, we sneakernet it!

147. Slides made with the “free stuff” http://libreoffice.org