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Line 32: − # Current Project and/or current main focus+ − #* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Book_reader Library /Book Reader]. Thousands of books stored on the XS which children are able to pull over the network either as whole book or bit by bit as they read them on their XO's.+ − #** Status: currently under development+ − #**Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS.+ − #*** Status: currently under development+ − #**This may prove to be more economical than the proposal of distributing text via SDcards as it would allow for a wider range of content per available Gigabyte. One 40 gig hard disk library would hold 10 times as much content as ten, 4-GB SDcards replicated with identical content.+ − #*** Status: currently under development+ − #** Run said books through Pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue.+ − #*** Status: currently under development+ − #** Essentially, a backend to the read activity.+ − #*** Status: currently under development+ − #*In class quizzing. Teachers ask questions, students respond using their XO, quiz results stored on XS. (Think the [http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/ I>clicker]) I believe similar concepts were proposed by [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Acj3840 Alex Jones]+ − #*** Status: not started+ − #**Possibility of parsing of information, possible graphical heuristics.+ − #*** Status: not started+ + − # Completed projects and tasks+ − #* Fix Ejabber+ − #** Status: Ejabber is running and working. XO's can communicate+ − #*** To use Ejabber point XO server to schoolserver.rit.edu + − #* Configure Moodle to our needs+ − #** Status: We currently do not have a project that needs moodle+ + − # Future project ideas+ − #* Create an Activity(Application) for RIT XOs so students can easily access Moodle+ − #** Status: not started+ − #* Moodle xo python api+ − #** Status: not started+ − #* XO Backup/Restore+ − #** Status: not started+ − #* XO Security [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antitheft_HowTo]+ − #** Status: not started+ − #* Deployment "whitebook"+ − #** Status: not started+ − #* Provide a service that allows teachers/volunteers (who don't speak English) in actual deployments to communicate via email with technical support volunteers by using the translating service [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootle Pootle]. Incoming and outgoing "tagged" emails would be translated in and out of the server on arrival / departure of the XS.+ − #** Status: not started+ +
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===Project Ideas===
===Project Ideas===
<P>'''Current Project and/or current main focus '''
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Book_reader Library /Book Reader]. Thousands of books stored on the XS which children are able to pull over the network either as whole book or bit by bit as they read them on their XO's.
** <font color="red">Status:</font> currently under development
**Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS.
*** <font color="red">Status:</font> currently under development
**This may prove to be more economical than the proposal of distributing text via SDcards as it would allow for a wider range of content per available Gigabyte. One 40 gig hard disk library would hold 10 times as much content as ten, 4-GB SDcards replicated with identical content.
*** <font color="red">Status:</font> currently under development
** Run said books through Pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue.
*** <font color="red">Status:</font> currently under development
** Essentially, a backend to the read activity.
*** <font color="red">Status:</font> currently under development
*In class quizzing. Teachers ask questions, students respond using their XO, quiz results stored on XS. (Think the [http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/ I>clicker]) I believe similar concepts were proposed by [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Acj3840 Alex Jones]
*** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
**Possibility of parsing of information, possible graphical heuristics.
*** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
</P>
<P>'''Completed projects and tasks'''
* Fix Ejabber
** <font color="red">Status:</font> Ejabber is running and working. XO's can communicate
*** To use Ejabber point XO server to schoolserver.rit.edu
* Configure Moodle to our needs
** <font color="red">Status:</font> We currently do not have a project that needs moodle
</P>
<P>'''Future project ideas'''
* Create an Activity(Application) for RIT XOs so students can easily access Moodle
** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
* Moodle xo python api
** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
* XO Backup/Restore
** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
* XO Security [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antitheft_HowTo]
** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
* Deployment "whitebook"
** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
* Provide a service that allows teachers/volunteers (who don't speak English) in actual deployments to communicate via email with technical support volunteers by using the translating service [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootle Pootle]. Incoming and outgoing "tagged" emails would be translated in and out of the server on arrival / departure of the XS.
** <font color="red">Status:</font> not started
</P>
===Reading Library===
===Reading Library===