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• Created: 2005-03-02 by PaulSladen

• Contributors: Ogra

• Packages affected: Edubuntu

Summary

Cybercafés needs lots of machines that user can use, which don't get hacked and can be centrally managed, rebooted, powered-on and powered-off.

Rationale

Get Ubuntu into cybercafés with a great out of the box-experience and people will love it and tell their cybercafé-owning friends about how easy their lives have become.

Use cases

Scope

• Client-side: Kioskmode, with Browser, Instant messaging client and anything else the owner is going to allow.

• Client-changes: Dialogue box showing available time, allowing top-up of credit, ordering of Muffins-with-chocolate-on-top and logging off.

Design

Implementation

• The network code all already exists in Edubuntu, Ogra will add an install target that runs the clients in Kioskmode in Dapper+1 and we can build on that.
• Pessulus and sabayon for creating and locking down profiles.

Code

Data preservation and migration

• Clients netboot and run out of RAM. Nothing is there for them to mess up.

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

Notes

Open source products

• [http://www.silentcoder.co.za/tiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=45 DireqCafe] - designed for LTSP

• [http://quozl.netrek.org/ppa/ Quozl's Prepaid Accounting]

• [http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/ OpenKiosk] - KDE based. Works with windows also

• [http://cyborg.sourceforge.net/ Cyborg]

Other products

There are some people that already provide Linux-based public computers

• [http://userful.com/ Userful]

• [http://opensensesolutions.com/index.html Groovix] - very similar to Userful, but with Ubuntu

• [http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ White Box Enterprise Linux] - founded by [http://library.beau.org/ Beauregard Parish Library] in Louisiana library and used on their public machines

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