Hi, Scott and I brainstormed around which software features a deployment with few school servers and little connectivity might benefit from. These haven't been examined in terms of utility to deployments or how difficult they'd be to get working; it's just a braindump.
* customizing/managing laptops - content deployment without a network - autoinstallation of content from USB keys? - backup without a school server (to a USB disk?) - recovery method for backups - create a Backup/Restore activity? - dealing with lost laptops, recovering data * phone home/infrastructure - how could we find out what the state of a school's mesh network is (healthy or overloaded?) if the school itself is offline? - how many laptops are at each school? - stolen laptops, lease management, without school server? - ability for software to ask olpc-update to return arbitrary data with olpc-update's periodic update requests - such as power management statistics, or network status information, or how many other laptops are nearby * contact information - being able to optionally set contact details (e-mail address?) for a laptop? - equivalent of Windows "net send"; ability to send broadcast messages to groups of laptops, e.g. for teachers to their students? - "Blackboard activity" for sending persistent notice board messages to the class or school * disconnected operation - we can't use webmail for e-mail if there's no network; should we come up with a simple stored e-mail solution that batches outgoing and incoming mail on USB keys that can be passed around? - maybe allow offline requests for web pages, with the pages downloaded whenever possible or downloaded elsewhere to a USB key? * content sharing without school server - a simple Share activity for transferring journal objects and activities to friends * UI for updates? - allow teachers to decide whether to push updates? - alert kids to the presence of new updates somehow? Any comments/more ideas to add to the list? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel