Hi I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to build an open source learning platform on app engine. Most open source platforms out there are built in PHP in such a way that someone in the school would at least need to know how to use FTP, and a lot of other technical details in order to install it.
If I could package the app engine sdk in some kind of 'installer', that would just deploy an instance of the app to an app id they registered, it would require a lot less technical knowledge for them to set this up. Here are the things I'm still trying to figure out. 1. Would it be easy enough for non-technical people to set up an app engine account and create an app-id. 2. How would I make the billing clear to them? For the sign up and setup process, it would not be too hard to write a guide, to explain step by step what to select where. The second question is harder. For many features, it would be possible to analyse its resource usage, and show for example how much it will cost to have 1 user with a number of messages, files, ... But when the school gets billed, what they see is raw resource usage, which will be hard to convert into usage metrics they understand. Any ideas on how I could overcome these hurdles, or if it's even a good idea to host such an open source app on app engine. p.s. I'm not planning to create a multi tenant application, where schools use an app I host. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
