On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Chris Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My kid's school sets up evenings for a couple of weeks every year for > parents to come in and teach a subject of their choice. I often think > is would be nice to do something that gets the kids sharing between > each other and enjoying seeing their own content copied, modified and > shared by other students. > > I started thinking of tuxpaint and some way to get the kids drawing, > saving and then open others kids drawings and then working on them, > etc. From a teachers point of view I imagine there would be many ways > to motivate (or mechanise through game rules) the group to achieve > these goals. > > But from the technical side I see is one difficulty. > Each client could have it's .tuxpaint/saved mounted, but when I start > to think about it more closely, I don't know what to use as a document > (.png) server. > > If two kids open the same png, then the last child to save the art > will overwrite previously saved copies. Both Samba and NFS behave like > this right? > What I think is needed is a server that never overwrites files. > When a child opens a png the server should 1, retain the original copy > and 2, create a new file when the student saves. > If for example three students open the same png and then all three > save, there wiil be a total of four png's on the server. > This way a child's original art is never lost and all versions of all > modifications are also available for further modification. > > Is there something out there that already does this? > If I were to try and programme this, where should I start? WebDAV? > Hi,
I've got a solution working with Samba, a cgi, an xmlrpc server, and Zenity, so here goes.. http://gatopelao.org/2009/10/23 -Projects are a way of grouping drawings together under the same theme or subject. -Teachers can create and delete projects. -Teachers can copy, move and delete drawings within the projects. -All projects are available to all students. -All students can create new drawings. -All students can open any drawing and build upon it. -Students cannot modify or delete drawings. -Students cannot create or delete projects. I posted it on the tuxpaint users list too. sorry if you got it twice. Cheers, Chris. > Thanks. > Chris. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
