Aleksey, At the risk of asking a stupid question, what is the Sugar Network functionality you are talking about?
Thanks. Gerald On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:20:23PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: > > This is very interesting. > > > > I have a kind of related question. Has there been any work done for a > > non-internet based email server (and XO based client)? > > I know that Tony Anderson (now in Rwanda) is working in a school with no > > internet access, but with the need for email-type communication. > > Generally speaking, people (students and teachers) from Peruvian > one-teachers offline schools might need the same "offline email". > But the approach that was take for Sugar Network is not trying to create > full featured/partial replacement of online environments (e.g., email, > web, wikipedia, feedback reporting system, etc) but create one > solid/robust system (that is capable for offline) with features: > > * content sharing (both ways, not only from deployers to deployments) > * having reliable feedback from the field, i.e., fail reports, usage > statistics, questions > * and social activity regarding the content in general (review, comments, > etc) > > So, there is no direct offline-email analogy. But in my mind, designed > Sugar Network functionality makes offline-email less needed (and not > needed at all if we are talking about environments like rural schools > with no any IT skilled people). > > -- > Aleksey >
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