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The Server should be kept in a secure room, probably along with the core of the Network.It should house as much local content as possible in order to reduce the load on the fragile Internet connection.This should include the camp Wiki (disable the public one for the duration of the camp), a camp Blog (a separate Public one should also be available, but participants should focus on the local one) & a system for sharing Photos.
Software to be installed (check with facilitators what they need for their sessions):
A server may also be required to support LTSP for some Lab configurations.Detailed Step-by-Step Installation Guide
Software to be installed (check with facilitators what they need for their sessions):
- Blog: Drupal & Wordpress (easier/more well-known than Gadgets?)
- Wiki: MediaWiki (easier/more well-known than Gadgets?)
- CMS: Plone
- drupaladmins
- wordpressadmins
- ploneadmins
- mediawikiadmins
- Gateway
- iptables providing NAT, QoS & filtering out icmp to prevent users wastefully testing performance (Smokeping provided instead)
- Proxy
- Squid for caching + advert filtering
- DHCP
- DNS
- Caching & also having simple aliases for internal services ('blog', 'wiki', 'photos', etc)
- SMTP Server
- Ubuntu package repository
- 15Gb so download beforehand on a fast connection!
- http://www.lex.com.tw:8080/product/LIGHT.htm
- This was used at AfricaSource II
- Disadvantage: USB 1.1 ports (slow for external USB HDDs)
- http://www.mini-box.com/HYBRID-C7-1-2G?sc=8&category=99
- This is used for Inveneo's HubStation
- http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm
A server may also be required to support LTSP for some Lab configurations.Detailed Step-by-Step Installation Guide