On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Martin Abente < > martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just to explain a little better this all fits into the "cloud journal" >> Idea which in the very first version should basically work as a cloud >> storage device (which should be placed in the XS IMHO). This will fix >> MANY problems we encountered in the field regarding the limited >> storage space, backups and virtual dogs eating homework. >> >> I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I >> take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started >> sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion >> before I get to that point. >> >> The very basic requirement is: each children must have its private >> "cloud volume", where they can drop their files in the same way they >> interact with physical external storage devices. >> >> On top of that we can do a lot of things that might be very useful for >> teachers daily in the classrooms. >> >> Before I start working on this, ill add multi-selection capabilities >> to the journal so we can easily drop files from the local journal to >> the "cloud" one. The implementation of the multi-selection feature may >> or not follow the design we proposed on eduJAM's code sprint [1]. >> >> Questions? Ideas? Code? :) >> >> 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Journal_NewUI#Mockups >> >> > As an external service, Dropbox is not appropriate for a deployment, but I > messed around several months ago with integrating the Journal with Dropbox. > Since the setup is fairly complicated, I never suggested implementing it > here. > > Because of the way Sugar indexes files, I used a USB drive so that Dropbox > would show file names and extensions. From the user's perspective, all they > have to do is drop files onto a USB drive and everything else is automatic. > > Anyway, it's "proof of concept" of cloud storage with the Journal. And of > course, Dropbox is a bad idea unless you're talking about just a few users. > There are FOSS alternatives out there that can live on the XS. > > Here's my writeup: > http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4892.0 > > Anna Schoolfield > Birmingham > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > FWIW, the $HOME/Docments patch could easily be modified to reference a shared network mount.
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-May/031111.html -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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