Hi all! I am a bit of a late-comer to the party. I am the lead dev, architect and general guilty party for the school server part of the OLPC project. A complement to the XO, you can think of it as "a smart gateway to internet" but it actually packs a lot more punch. Or will do soon.
[ See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server for more details on what the School Server does ]
The School Server (aka XS) is a relatively simple "server" spin, right now based on a custom F7 LiveCD. While I don't want to get too distracted from development of tools to make it useful, I am trying to upgrade to F9 and switch from LiveCDs to a normal installer/upgrader (using pungi - is that the right tool?).
In general, I will be trying to ask questions on the appropriate lists (fedora-devel, etc) -- if you can help enlighten me on the ways of the Fedora, I will be forever thankful (I am recovering from years away from RH/Fedora distros :-) ).
Earlier today, I added a 'fedoradev' tag to all the bits where we could do with Fedora expertise -- they are around packaging and core configuration changes. If you think you can help, this list is a good start: https://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reope...
For those who aren't Fedora or RPM experts but can hack on web development tools and less "internal" stuff, I added a similar tag, called "easy" (not that they are actually easy, but it's a good trick to make you look ;-) ) https://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reope...
And lastly, about meetings, I am in the NZ timezone. So I will be happy to join meetings post 5pm EST... 4pm if you let me know with time. Anything earlier, I'll snore in your general direction :-)
and heartfelt *thanks* to Greg and to Rahul, who's already been helping me quite a bit.
cheers,
martin