Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-08-04 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Edward, I have not included the case of multiple schools interacting together. This is focused on the first step which covers scale, network config and basic collaboration within a single school. I created a new page called collaboration requirements phase 2 linked from 9.1.0 page: http

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-08-04 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Martin, OK, I can use RFC style language instead of my must and should definitions if that helps us communicate better. I'm not up to full RFC format but I can try to get as close as needed. I don't see must/should/nice to have defined in this link: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2223.txt

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-08-04 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 15:43, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Martin, OK, I can use RFC style language instead of my must and should definitions if that helps us communicate better. I'm not up to full RFC format but I can try to get as close as needed. I don't see must/should/nice to

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not included the case of multiple schools interacting together. This is focused on the first step which covers scale, network config and basic collaboration within a single school. To expand on this -- I had not seen

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-08-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
n Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First Michael: This feels very similar to an RFC. GS - Its not meant to be an RFC I think Michael was just suggesting a time-saving device: you defined should, must, etc, and there's a common standard for that kind of

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-08-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I wrote up some collaboration requirements to help get us to a definition of collaboration support that teachers can use in schools. Thanks. It is not clear to me whether you mean to include the case of children

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:47:19AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 31 Jul 2008, at 01:07, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:21:34PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: It was well promoted and teachers on the sur list have repeatedly asked for a definition of how to use it successfully.

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:32:47PM -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Dear Greg and Michael, It seems to me that we spend more time discussing things, instead of implementing them. ... Even if you pick one randomly you are guaranteed to scale by a whole order of magnitude better

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-31 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Thanks a lot for all the comments. I tie up a single response and I edit the requirement as needed. Let me know if I don't respond to something you think needs further discussion. I put the updated version in the wiki 9.1.0 Collaboration requirements section: http://wiki.laptop.org/go

Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-30 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I wrote up some collaboration requirements to help get us to a definition of collaboration support that teachers can use in schools. This is my first somewhat rigorous requirements definition for OLPC so comments on style as well as substance are welcome. I will take one round

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:21:34PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: This is my first somewhat rigorous requirements definition for OLPC so comments on style as well as substance are welcome. This feels very similar to an RFC. Take a look at RFC 2223 Instructions to RFC Authors and think about whether you

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-30 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Dear Greg and Michael, It seems to me that we spend more time discussing things, instead of implementing them. The issue of scalability in large ad-hoc networks has been around for more than a decade and some pretty descent research results have been out there for several years now. Even if

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 31 Jul 2008, at 01:07, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:21:34PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: It was well promoted and teachers on the sur list have repeatedly asked for a definition of how to use it successfully. Insofar as we make no use of our own collaborative technology as

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-30 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Dear Pol, Greg and Michael, There is so much going on here that it's difficult to approach. I mostly second Michael's comments. Though Greg obviously took a lot of his time to put these goals together, I think we are missing the target. It's good to have goals such as 40 XOs being able to chat