On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Sameer Verma<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Drake<[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/8/27 Sameer Verma <[email protected]>: >>> I posed this question on OLPC Support Gang earlier and got responses >>> that its not possible to do so under bitfrost and rainbow. >>> >>> =================== >>> "Hello everybody, >>> >>> We have a lending library at SFSU, ready to go, but we need to have a >>> way to erase the config and journal every time the XO comes back from >>> a borrower. The SFSU library staff have made it very clear that they >>> don't want the process to be "open the terminal and run a script". An >>> activity (say, Erase) would be quite desirable. >> >> In my opinion, this is silly. Teach them how to run a script, teach >> them how to reflash or tell them to stop being difficult. >> >> As for the borrowers end - this is sillier. What are you expecting the >> borrowers to actually do with their XOs? It's for generating >> contributions to the community, right? >> >> Daniel >> > > I'm dealing with our library. We could have gone the route of a > student group handling this, but logistically, it made more sense for > the library to do this. They are very strict about privacy of patrons > (and rightly so). Privacy is privacy. It does not matter what > borrowers do with their XOs. The library will not even tell me *who* > borrows the laptops. We are going to provide a laminated card with a > URL to provide structured feedback. So, we can't look up people who > borrow the XOs, but we can hope to get feedback and contribution > voluntarily from the borrowers. > > I'm going to stick with the "run a script" routine for now.
The process of creating an activity and a control panel plug-in are nearly identical. The control panel is were system admin _should_ occur and plug-ins provide a nice framework for developing guis. david > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor, Information Systems > Director, Center for Business Solutions > San Francisco State University > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ > http://is.sfsu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
