Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-27 Thread Donna Benjamin
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 15:32 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Sadly, we can't use Moodle. One state here in Australia doesn't like it, Doesn't like it? Are you kidding me? -- Donna Benjamin - Executive Director Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 23 May 2011 15:43, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Sadly, we can't use Moodle. One state here in Australia doesn't like it, to the point where we're going to have to disable or remove it. That makes things interesting :( That still leaves Sharepoint and Blackboard? Assuming that a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Interesting. Does WebDAV work as a normal mount, like CIFS or NFS? From the PoV of the user, yes, it looks like a mountpoint. Technically, you can mount it at the linux kernel level, at the gnome IO libraries level,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 21 May 2011 03:49, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:12 AM,  fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: why not use Moodle or Sharepoint or Blackboard? Yeah - there's an easy-installation Moodle package. That's what I'd go with. Sadly, we can't use Moodle. One

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 19 May 2011 04:15, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: For file management, I very strongly recommend using WebDAV. It is a bit less efficient than real network file system protocols, but the benefits are many:   - more flexibilty   - closer to you and me in the stack - you

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:12 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: why not use Moodle or Sharepoint or Blackboard? Yeah - there's an easy-installation Moodle package. That's what I'd go with. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 18 May 2011 02:34, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sridhar, I don't fully understand your scenario. I'll admit that I was vague. Let me clarify... You say an XS is not an option... but I thought you were using XS, with Jerry's help?  If you are using XS, you can use

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-18 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Martin Langhoff's message of Tue May 17 18:34:09 +0200 2011: Unfortuntely, there's no easy way to do it with CIFS or NFS -- it would be an interesting addition to Sugar (possibly to the Journal) but it's a big project. NFS mounts do turn up as storage devices in the Journal (at

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Sridhar, I don't fully understand your scenario. You say an XS is not an option... but I thought you were using XS, with Jerry's help? If you are using XS, you can use Moodle. If there is no XS, then any webbased tool that offers a file upload form to post a file to share will work. You can

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-17 Thread Rafael Ortiz
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sridhar, I don't fully understand your scenario. You say an XS is not an option... but I thought you were using XS, with Jerry's help? If you are using XS, you can use Moodle. If there is no XS, then

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-17 Thread mokurai
On Tue, May 17, 2011 3:42 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How can XOs copy files to/from their Journal with a server? We want the ability for teachers to easily make files available for children, and for children to upload to the server. This appears to be a problem for the Devel list. If the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-17 Thread Martin Abente
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:47 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 3:42 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How can XOs copy files to/from their Journal with a server? We want the ability for teachers to easily make files available for children, and for children to upload to the