Hi Surendran and Martin, Not to compete for the interest of a new engineer :-) but I think the blogger request will be used by all deployments.
In short the kids want to blog! I think we all need to hear their voices too. I just got more feedback on why its hard right now: - You have to create a google account for each user (now, as it accepts OpenId it might be easier...) - If you have different blogs, children get confused with the "new post" option. - follow the steps for making a new post (on Google blogger) since you get connected to the internet, and you'll see there are a lot. It doesn't mean it can't be taught, but usability could be much better for children usage. - It's not easy for teachers to take a look at posts before being published. I posted that in the updated requirement at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requiremientos_Para_XO I can see a client side solution like add a post to blog "button" to the Write activity which does an HTTP Post to a Google Blogger URL or HTML form on the XS which posts to site viewable within school then a post public button or full Moodle/Drupal class content management GUI. Regardless, we'd love to have your help! It's a matter of which you want to work on (admin tools or teaching/kid tools) and which is more important to the success of the whole project. I've been through enough deployment firedrills already to appreciate how much we need an XS admin GUI so I agree that both are important. That said, if you have any cycles to work on blogger we could use the help and I'll make sure you get direct feedback from real kids and teachers. The blogger tool is the only direct request for new code I have heard from end users. It help gather future input if we can show responsiveness on this first requirement. Martin works for OLPC. Long term, his success and the organizations success is paramount so I defer to him to set OLPC priorities. Thanks, Greg S ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:37:25 -0400 From: "Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Reg: Google summer of Code under OLPC To: "surendran m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Welcome Surendran! 2008/3/27 surendran m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Regarding the idea itself ,the problem of networked blogging has been The networked blogging plan is - I think - a Uruguay-only thing. I am not sure how the mentor proposes to make it work for all XSs. Also note - Moodle is in the roadmap, and has a blog facility, and an enhanced blog module is in the works right now. Perhaps shifting the focus to Moodle might work there. > On the second part , the development of a interface for school server > admin I have the following doubts : > 1. Is it a web interface or a app ? Web app. The XS will normally be headless - that is, no monitor or keyboard. A black box, sitting in a corner ;-) > 2. What all features are required in the school server ? Have a read of the roadmap ;-) cheers, martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel End of Server-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46 ******************************************** _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
