Sameer, You should talk to SomosAzucar and Aleksey Lim about the use case for Sugar Network being developed for a pilot in LimaNorte.
cjl On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > There are several use cases that may or may not get addressed when designing > a particular software stack to address a requirement. > > The XS 0.7 is designed to be a single image install and comes with Moodle. > Given that I work with Moodle everyday, I see the pros and cons of it being > central on the XS. I am in fact fairly happy with its current design, but > also realize that it was built for a specific use case or three that OLPC > needed at the time. > > There is also an effort (currently dubbed XS Community Edition) that is > attempting to address certain other use cases where Moodle and other > services could possibly become optional. We saw this at the OLPC SF > Community Summit. I hope it will grow up to be the next XS (but that's > another thread). > > My concern is that perhaps, if we don't do our homework right, we will once > again build something that will fail to address a use case or two. Can one > design address all use cases? Maybe not. But it's good to know what those > use cases are. > > To this end, I would like to collect data on different possible use cases > from all kinds of deployments. I have a student (cc'd) who is working on > this project currently. She will gather data from various deployments > (suitcase, boutique, MoE etc) as much as possible (with the cooperation of > projects, of course) and write a report on what we see out there. We'll > gladly make the report available once it is done. > > Is this useful? > > What should the scope be? Initially I had thought of the server side, but > that may be limiting. What should we gather? > Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, > language, sugar version, ... > > Feedback? > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Professor, Information Systems > San Francisco State University > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://commons.sfsu.edu/ > http://olpcsf.org/ > http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel