On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Martin Abente < [email protected]> wrote:
> Just to explain a little better this all fits into the "cloud journal" > Idea which in the very first version should basically work as a cloud > storage device (which should be placed in the XS IMHO). This will fix > MANY problems we encountered in the field regarding the limited > storage space, backups and virtual dogs eating homework. > > 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 > before I get to that point. > > The very basic requirement is: each children must have its private > "cloud volume", where they can drop their files in the same way they > interact with physical external storage devices. > > On top of that we can do a lot of things that might be very useful for > teachers daily in the classrooms. > > Before I start working on this, ill add multi-selection capabilities > to the journal so we can easily drop files from the local journal to > the "cloud" one. The implementation of the multi-selection feature may > or not follow the design we proposed on eduJAM's code sprint [1]. > > Questions? Ideas? Code? :) > > 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Journal_NewUI#Mockups > > As an external service, Dropbox is not appropriate for a deployment, but I messed around several months ago with integrating the Journal with Dropbox. Since the setup is fairly complicated, I never suggested implementing it here. Because of the way Sugar indexes files, I used a USB drive so that Dropbox would show file names and extensions. From the user's perspective, all they have to do is drop files onto a USB drive and everything else is automatic. Anyway, it's "proof of concept" of cloud storage with the Journal. And of course, Dropbox is a bad idea unless you're talking about just a few users. There are FOSS alternatives out there that can live on the XS. Here's my writeup: http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4892.0 Anna Schoolfield Birmingham
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