wtogami's Journal

K12LTSP in Portland, Oregon - Day 1
I arrived today in Portland, OR. I met up with Eric Harrison (founder and lead developer of K12LTSP). We have two goals before I leave on Sunday:

Show group of visiting <unspecified foreign country /> government education representatives the HUGE success of K12LTSP in the Oregon school system. This group is considering the possibility of deploying K12LTSP in their home country but wanted more information and to see it themselves, in the place where it began.
Hack on LTSP 5.0, integrate and package the basics for inclusion into Fedora. LTSP should be an easily enabled feature on any Fedora server simply by installing packages and running the configuration wizard. K12LTSP would then be spun directly from Fedora repos, making it a future official Fedora flavor. We hope to make LTSP server configurable via firstboot module (for K12LTSP install) or system-config-ltsp for post-install configuration. Anaconda would be used during that config tool to install the chroot to be used by thin clients.

Eric Harrison using Anaconda to Install a Thin Client chroot

Today we planned out tomorrow's tour of the schools and talked a bit about how we will achieve LTSP 5.0 integration into Fedora. The integration plan is looking to be surprisingly simple in the first phase, which relies upon stock configuration files. After we have that stuff working in Fedora, we can plan the next phase which is to write management interfaces to allow it to be more flexible and not make assumptions about the user's network.

For now, I am extremely sleep deprived and jet lagged. More tomorrow.

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