This is very interesting. I have a kind of related question. Has there been any work done for a non-internet based email server (and XO based client)? I know that Tony Anderson (now in Rwanda) is working in a school with no internet access, but with the need for email-type communication.
Thanks. Gerald On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:04:36PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: > > Has anyone looked into running an offline copy of > > activities.sugarlabs.orgon a server that isn't on the Internet (a la > > XS)? > > To run ASLO copy on a standalone server, you need to install ASLO/AMO > php application (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Devel > but instructions might be outdated) and clone MySQL data with activity > files (~9G). Some time ago, SL used 2nd ASLO node, but it used the same > MySQL and files storage. > > There is the same need in "ASLO" on a school server in the field. But > in my mind, trying to adapt ASLO/AMO to this scheme is an overkill. > The real environments might assume lack of maintaining or restricted > school servers (for example XO laptops in offline schools), i.e., > Apache+MySQL+PHP+ASLO/AMO is a real misuse. > > In this regard, Sugar Network[1] was initiated a ~year ago, i.e., > content sharing system (in contrast to ASLO, SN will provide > non-software content like books or Journal objects). Sugar Network > functionality is explicitly split into server side and client > application(s). Server side is capable for running even on XO laptops > (XO-1.5 is preferable) in pure offline case (e.g. one-teacher schools in > Peru when people have only XO laptops) with further offline > synchronization[2]. Clients might be any applications that use REStful > API provided by Sugar Network node (master server like ASLO or any > distributed node). For now there are two clients[3] written as a > lightweight Web application and one that is pure JS application. > > The centralized scheme (like ASLO) is available right now[3] (it is > being assumed to be used in Peruvian pilot). The offline model is > in progress and should be ready, in some stage, during this year. > > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network > [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Platform/Sneakernet > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network#Try_it > > -- > Aleksey > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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