extremadura meeting: the view from vagrant cascadian
initial thoughts:
it went way too fast. both for good an bad reasons. the good, of course,
was having many great people working together. the bad was, with only 3
full days to work means a fair amount of time is spent just getting into
the swing of things.
it was amazing and very, very inspiring to see the projects in the
schools, and to hear about the planned deployment of 4,000 LTSP servers!
always a pleasure to meet the people i've worked with face-to-face, and
it improves future on-line coordination as well.
on the 4 hour drive to merida, i spent the time meeting and catching up
with people, which actually felt to me like time well spent.
the food was quite good, at least for vegetarians :)
many, many, many thanks to everyone who made this event happen!
here's a day-by-day breakdown of most of the things i worked on...
Thursday:
updated LDM (LTSP Display Manager) packaging to support i18n/l10n:
- http://bugs.debian.org/432708
- http://bugs.debian.org/473674
simplified LDM packaging by using "make install" for most files
tested squashfs blockers with LTSP NBD root(partially sucessful):
- http://bugs.debian.org/466467
visited school in merida:
- played with controlaula, a thin-client management interface:
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/ControlAula
- discussed stress-testing LTSP servers for massive deployment (4000
servers)
discussed CDD renaming
worked on ltsp-chroot wrappers (based on ideas from lessdisks-chroot)
Friday:
- visited the school again: discussed heat issues and how to get more
monitors in a small space
- explored syncing debian-installer code for LTSP with ubuntu's code
(not yet finished)
- worked on ltsp-build-client to make progress bars possible by logging
to a file (not yet finished)
- more CDD renaming discussions
Saturday:
- explored ltspfs improvements by calling cdpinger and ltspfsd from
udev, instead of depending on ltsp-client* init scripts (work in
progress).
- tested and uploaded LDM to debian experimental and debian-edu
lenny-test (as ldm was waiting on unstable -> testing migration). now
includes translations for: de es eu fr(partial) hu nb sv, with more on
the way.
- recieved a lot of feedback from klaus about the translateable strings
in LDM which will actually simplify and improve the code while
reducing the number translateable strings.
- even more CDD renaming discussions
things i would have liked to have done better or had more time for:
had hoped to spend more time testing debian-edu's LTSP integration, but
it was difficult to get current CD/DVD images due to the inconsistant
internet connections.
didn't get a chance to try network-booting debian-edu's installer, but
i would (still) like to work on that.
more thought in advance on my part about how to test LTSP in the school
classrooms would have probably made the time more productive.
largely, i ended up working on LTSP related tasks, and specific LTSP
features or bugs that were brought up during the course of the meeting.
live well,
vagrant
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