Re: drupal on OLPC?
Hi Ben, Your timing is excellent! The kids in Uruguay have started blogging a lot with the XO. Posting Adivinanzas (riddles) seem like a popular item. See: http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134894806578234196 Now they are asking for more sophisticated content management and we have already flagged Drupal as a tool that may fit the bill. I wrote a brief requirements definition of what they want, now posted here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Learning_activities/Journalism We need another round of discussion with the teachers to nail down their requirements but all signs point towards Drupal so far... Do you know what it would take to translate the full Drupal UI to Spanish? I replied here to bring any interested people with us, but you can reply on the server list only and I'll pick it up there. Thanks, Greg S -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:47:06 +0100 From: bert boerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: drupal on OLPC? To: devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear All, As a member of the Drupal community, I would like to see the Open Source CMS Drupal ship on the OLPC. Drupal is a state of the art Content Managment System / Framework with lots of modules and hence potential implementations. Drupal can be a wiki, a blog, a news aggregator, a youtube clone, a flickr etc... Having Drupa ship on every OLPC would be great for the young users; they can easy write and share information. I can make some noise in the Drupal community to let some of the members help making this happen. But what would it take fom a technical and procedural side to make this happen? Some work on Drupal on OLPC has already been done, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Drupal http://www.olpcnews.com/software/third_party/olpc_open_source_with_drupa l.html http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/feb/28/building-open-source-app lications-olpc-drupal http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-olpc Would you please help me point to the right direction to make this happen? TIA -- groets, bert boerland -- my rants on my weblog -- http://boerland.com/ -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:04:09 -0400 From: Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: drupal on OLPC? To: bert boerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 21:47 +0100, bert boerland wrote: Dear All, As a member of the Drupal community, I would like to see the Open Source CMS Drupal ship on the OLPC. The OLPC XO is virtually the worst possible server platform. It is highly mobile, has little memory or disk space, usually runs on battery, and aggressively turns off its CPU when not in use. It's also unlikely to have internet connectivity at any given time, and its network connection is purely wireless (and constantly changing). Think of it like running Drupal on your cell phone, or Nokia n810. Drupal would potentially be very useful on the School Server, which is a much more appropriate platform. The current prototypes of the school server are configured to run Moodle. You will have to make a case that Drupal is a sensible counterpart to Moodle, can be integrated with it, or should replace it. Regardless, the place to make that case is [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Ben ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: drupal on OLPC?
Drupal on spanish: http://www.drupal.org.es/ 2008/3/13, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Ben, Your timing is excellent! The kids in Uruguay have started blogging a lot with the XO. Posting Adivinanzas (riddles) seem like a popular item. See: http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134894806578234196 Now they are asking for more sophisticated content management and we have already flagged Drupal as a tool that may fit the bill. I wrote a brief requirements definition of what they want, now posted here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Learning_activities/Journalism We need another round of discussion with the teachers to nail down their requirements but all signs point towards Drupal so far... Do you know what it would take to translate the full Drupal UI to Spanish? I replied here to bring any interested people with us, but you can reply on the server list only and I'll pick it up there. Thanks, Greg S -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:47:06 +0100 From: bert boerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: drupal on OLPC? To: devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear All, As a member of the Drupal community, I would like to see the Open Source CMS Drupal ship on the OLPC. Drupal is a state of the art Content Managment System / Framework with lots of modules and hence potential implementations. Drupal can be a wiki, a blog, a news aggregator, a youtube clone, a flickr etc... Having Drupa ship on every OLPC would be great for the young users; they can easy write and share information. I can make some noise in the Drupal community to let some of the members help making this happen. But what would it take fom a technical and procedural side to make this happen? Some work on Drupal on OLPC has already been done, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Drupal http://www.olpcnews.com/software/third_party/olpc_open_source_with_drupa l.html http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/feb/28/building-open-source-app lications-olpc-drupal http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-olpc Would you please help me point to the right direction to make this happen? TIA -- groets, bert boerland -- my rants on my weblog -- http://boerland.com/ -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:04:09 -0400 From: Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: drupal on OLPC? To: bert boerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 21:47 +0100, bert boerland wrote: Dear All, As a member of the Drupal community, I would like to see the Open Source CMS Drupal ship on the OLPC. The OLPC XO is virtually the worst possible server platform. It is highly mobile, has little memory or disk space, usually runs on battery, and aggressively turns off its CPU when not in use. It's also unlikely to have internet connectivity at any given time, and its network connection is purely wireless (and constantly changing). Think of it like running Drupal on your cell phone, or Nokia n810. Drupal would potentially be very useful on the School Server, which is a much more appropriate platform. The current prototypes of the school server are configured to run Moodle. You will have to make a case that Drupal is a sensible counterpart to Moodle, can be integrated with it, or should replace it. Regardless, the place to make that case is [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Ben ___ 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
RE: Drupal on OLPC?
The kids in Uruguay have started blogging a lot with the XO. Posting Adivinanzas (riddles) seem like a popular item. See: http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134894806578234196 Now they are asking for more sophisticated content management and we have already flagged Drupal as a tool that may fit the bill. I wrote a brief requirements definition of what they want, now posted here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Learning_activities/Journalism We need another round of discussion with the teachers to nail down their requirements but all signs point towards Drupal so far... I have worked w/ Drupal in the past and I think it is one of the better LAMP cms's. I have found that it takes a fair amount of configuration. I would love to see a good stock configuration of Drupal for the School Server. It is not appropriate for the XO as Ben Schwartz points out. There already is the Moodle cms on the XS but I am not familiar w/ Moodle and I don't know what kind of blogging functionality it has *punt* = to Martin Bert, pls join the discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: drupal on OLPC?
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 21:47 +0100, bert boerland wrote: Dear All, As a member of the Drupal community, I would like to see the Open Source CMS Drupal ship on the OLPC. The OLPC XO is virtually the worst possible server platform. It is highly mobile, has little memory or disk space, usually runs on battery, and aggressively turns off its CPU when not in use. It's also unlikely to have internet connectivity at any given time, and its network connection is purely wireless (and constantly changing). Think of it like running Drupal on your cell phone, or Nokia n810. Drupal would potentially be very useful on the School Server, which is a much more appropriate platform. The current prototypes of the school server are configured to run Moodle. You will have to make a case that Drupal is a sensible counterpart to Moodle, can be integrated with it, or should replace it. Regardless, the place to make that case is [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Ben ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
