On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Rabi Karmacharya<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:50 AM, David Farning <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Rabi Karmacharya<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > The books (and many more) can be accessed by children at the OLPC pilot >> > schools in Nepal through the e-library that OLE Nepal has created. The >> > e-library is hosted in school servers in each pilot school, and is >> > updated >> > regularly. The e-library can also be accessed on the Internet at >> > www.pustakalaya.org (pustakalaya is library in Nepali). The e-library >> > was >> > launched in February 2009, and OLE Nepal continues its efforts to expand >> > the >> > content by contacting various organizations, publishers and writers to >> > make >> > their works available to children all over the world. >> >> Rabi, >> >> That look great! >> >> What are you using for a content management system? I am interested in >> setting up library.sugalabs.org for testing and then creating some >> wiki pages so deployments can benefit from your work. >> >> david > > David. > > Our pustakalaya is built on Fedora Commons with Fez in the front end. It is > a relatively static library, and we do not have the facilities for teachers, > students, and users to upload their works in the library. Right now all the > uploading and management is done by the staff at OLE Nepal. > > Our primary goal was to create a repository of education materials (books, > videos, maps, etc) that children can access easily at their schools. As you > may know, there is a dearth of such materials in many parts of Nepal, and > teachers and students have barely any reading materials outside of their > course books. We do plan to add rating and uploading facilities in future, > but right now, our focus is on adding more content to expand our > collections. > > You can direct technical questions to our library system developer, Sulochan > (cc'ed above). > > Cheers. > -Rabi >
Hello Sulochan. Nice to meet you! Last week DSD added some interesting thoughts to a discussion we were having on updating activities. Currently, on a project level, we are using activities.sugarlabs.org as a central repository for activities. I think we will also host content there. The software for a.sl.o will not scale down enough to run on school. I am wondering if you think that it would be valuable for Sugar Labs to leverage your work and make system such as pustakalaya available as a resource for all deployments. thanks david _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
