On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the sanity check, that's not it :-(
Well, I think it is pretty close :-) What you described is roughly what I had read a few weeks (months?) ago. So I described an additional step - an xo activity to blog, that you are not planning to do (great - so we can go even simpler). Don't worry about mockups - at least not for me :-) You still have a blog utility that you want to run on the XS. This blog utility needs (in rough terms) to - understand a simple level of identity & roles (provided by XS facilities, as we've discussed) - let users blog, tag, etc - let users mark entries as draft/public/etc - show user's blogs locally - allow teachers to approve somerthing for publication - push queued entries to a remote blog If you are doing thetasks above, you need a ton of supporting code - database management, input sanilitsation, formatting, search, per-user view, per-blog view, per-tag view, combinations of those views, who's part of this group blog, adding/removing members to a group blog, some (perhaps simple) theming for each blog, and more, and then some more. And once it's done, it's 90% of a blog. Some of those things are important for users - users won't accept it as a "complete" thing untiil it has them. Others are important for sysadmins (I'm your meta-sysadmin here) and if I don't see a good quality DB abstraction for portability, database schema upgrade management, good scalable SQL, input validation, good quality data-formatting on display... well, I can't say yes to it. > We do not plan to code, host, share or serve any blogs! All we will > build is a simple front end that let's users create a blog post and > click once to have it appear on a Moodle Blog, Blogger.com, Drupal etc. > > Kids enter content, clicks post and that's it. The back end SW running > on the XS takes that post and puts it on the blog e.g. > http://centenarioescuela38sg.blogspot.com/ Hmmmm. There are 2 possible scenarios I can imagine... 1 - the school is super-connected to the internet, and everybody publishes _directly_. In that case, we don't need the software - let's just use blogger.com 2 - the school has spotty or no connectivity, and perhaps you want to run a "local" school blog, not visible for all the world to see. _Some_ entries are tagged "public to the world" and those get pushed to blogger.com/drupal/moodle I _think_ we are talking about #2, in that case, your software is really valuable and I agree with Wad - it will be great to have blogs local to the school. Maybe there's internet, maybe there's not. > Tarun and Marcel, let me know ASAP if the description above... Tarun, Marcel, are you guys here on [EMAIL PROTECTED] hop on! ;-) cheers, m -- [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 [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
