CoderDojoOS

We customize an Ubuntu to use in the CoderDojos

Why?

• Computers in CoderDojos need special software, if it is pre-installed, kids can code more, save time.
• The projects of the kids can be saved and uploaded so we can show-case them and continue at home.

What is included?

• a specialized install for each dojo.
• automatic, asynchronous updates:
  1. push to github
  2. start the computer, it logs into wifi
  3. it updates
• special packages like
  • aiStarter
  • issues for more packages
• Debian packages like scratch
• default homepage in browser
• clone and synchronize git repositories like projects

Installation

If you have setup an Ubuntu 16, you can open the command line and do

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CoderDojoPotsdam/CoderDojoOS/master/install/download_and_install.sh ; /bin/bash download_and_install.sh

or

wget https://git.io/vMUuI ; /bin/bash vMUuI

This guides you through the installation process. And you are done.

Configure a new Dojo

In the CoderDojoOS directory, you should see a file use-cases-default.txt This is the file which has the default use-cases in it. These are all folders in the use-cases folder. Read there on how to add a new dojo.

Test that it works

So see if the CoderDojoOS is executed properly on startup, you can view the log files once you restarted:

cat /opt/coderdojoos/status.log

It should look something like this:

Starting up Thu Dec 15 03:43:30 PST 2016
Step 40_wait_for_internet_connection.sh ... ok
Step 45_install_packages.sh ... ok
Step 47_add_git_remotes.sh ... ok
Step 50_update.sh ... ok
Step 52_install_packages.sh ... ok
Step 60_create_users_and_groups.sh ... ok
Step 70_install_specials.sh ... ok
Done.

Related Work

• A customized live cd: https://github.com/CodersOS/
• Something like to CoderDojoOS: https://github.com/mobluse/coderdojo-raspbian-sv
• Raspbian on a USB-Stick: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pixel-pc-mac/
• OpenTechSchool Leptop Setup: https://github.com/vonneudeck/ots-laptop-setup