RE: OwNet

2012-11-02 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn 
Sounds good..

From: mlip...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:50:20 +0100
Subject: OwNet
To: devel@lists.laptop.org

Hi everyone,We are a group of students from the Slovak University of 
Technology. Last year we took part in an international competition called 
Imagine Cup. We created an application, called OwNet, that enables users with 
poor Internet connection browse the Web more effectively and even offline by 
providing a local proxy that intelligently caches and prefetches Web pages. It 
also contains some educational features, as it is intended for schools in 
Africa.

OwNet is currently being deployed in Kenya, at schools in Nanyuki and Voi. 
Because of the rules of the Imagine Cup competition, our application is 
implemented using Microsoft technologies. However, this year we are going to 
reimplement it using cross-platform technologies so that it can also be used 
under Linux.

Recently we came across the project OLPC. We find it very interesting and, if 
possible, we would like to contribute to the project. Could our application be 
somehow useful to OLPC? Possibly some parts could be integrated into the Sugar 
interface (e.g. intelligent caching, prefetching or educational features). 
Since we intend a full reimplementation, we could choose features based on your 
preference or suggestions.

We would really appreciate your feedback, questions or ideas.

You can also find more information about the project on our website:

http://ownet.fiit.stuba.sk/?l=uk

Thank you very much.



Cheers,the OwNet team

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Re: OwNet

2012-11-02 Thread John Gilmore 
 implemented using Microsoft technologies. However=2C this year we are goin=
 g to reimplement it using cross-platform technologies so that it can also b=
 e used under Linux.

Have you heard of the Squid caching proxy for the Web?  Lots of people
at the slow end of an Internet connection use it, including major
ISPs.  It's already written, portable, and debugged.  See:

  http://www.squid-cache.org/

I also see a Sri Lankan effort called Dalesa, that works in both
Windows and Linux:

  http://www.opensource.lk/projects-Dalesa

John
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Re: OwNet

2012-11-02 Thread Martin Langhoff 
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Martin Lipták mlip...@gmail.com wrote:
 We are a group of students from the Slovak University of Technology. Last
 year we took part in an international competition called Imagine Cup. We
 created an application, called OwNet, that enables users with poor Internet
 connection browse the Web more effectively and even offline by providing a
 local proxy that intelligently caches and prefetches Web pages. It also
 contains some educational features, as it is intended for schools in Africa.

Very interesting. How does that compare, include or interact with ... ?

 - crcsync project
 - wwwoffle

cheers,



m
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