Third Quarter

Logistics

• Tomás: Arrive Jan 09, 11:32 AM, Jet Blue flight 1060, Housing: Jamie's House
• Kendra: Arrive January 9, Bolt Bus, Housing: To be arranged by MF/PL
• Miles: Arrive January 9, by train and is arranging his own place to stay
• Roberto: Arrive January 9, 5:00 pm, AA flight 732, Housing: To be arranged by MF/PL

January 10 and 11, 2013 (New York City)

MF/PL 461 54th Street Brooklyn NY 11220

Alfredo's cell: 347 675-0953

January 10

• 9:00 am -- Bagels and set-up
• 10:00 am -- Participants' Reactions: Where Am I? -- Go Round
• 11:00 am -- Presentation: The Politics of Servers -- How doing one for an organization is very different from doing your own -- Alfredo
• 12:00 non -- Lunch
• 1:00 pm -- Sessions with Mentor and Trainer on Specific Work Projects:
  • Samba/Network -- Roberto, Miles -- Trainer: Nat
  • Media Server -- Kendra -- Trainer: Ross
  • Own Cloud -- Tomas -- Trainer: Jamie
• 5:00 pm -- Break and Dinner (MF/PL LC members and staff invited to join us)

January 11

• 9:00 am -- Sessions continue
• 12:00 noon -- Full Group Summary and Discussion of Course Issues
• 1:00 pm -- Explanation and Discussion of Next Stage, informal lunch for those who are staying

(Official face to face ends but trainers will be available for the rest of the afternoon until 5:00 pm)

• 7:00 pm -- Dinner with other MF/PL volunteers

Own Cloud

• Repeat lesson from last quarter - build a virtual server, but this time build using wheezy (testing) version of Debian. We are using wheezy because there is a version of owncloud in the wheezy version of Debian, but not in the squeeze (stable) version.
• Once the server is running, install owncloud:

  apt-get install owncloud
  

• Read the Debian README file:

  less /usr/share/doc/owncloud/README.Debian
  

• Install MySQL server:
  • Install the debian package

    apt-get install mysql-server
    

  • Use pwgen to generate a root password (from your local computer):

    pwgen 15 1
    

  • Add the password to your /root/.my.cnf file
    • Open the file in an editor:

      nano /root/.my.cnf
      

    • Add the contents:

      [client]
      user=root
      password=YOURPASSWORDHERE
      

    • Ensure only root can read it:

      chmod 600 /root/.my.cnf
      

• Log into the database via the mysql command line client:

  mysql
  

• Create a database for owncloud:

  CREATE DATABASE owncloud;
  

• Create a user with full access to it.
  • Generate new random password (see above)
  • Grant access via mysql sql statement:

    GRANT ALL ON owncloud.* TO 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'NEWPASSWORDHERE';
    

• Visit the owncloud web installer via a web browser:

  http://YOURVIRTUALSERVER/owncloud
  

• Configure for ​big files support