On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Luke Faraone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 20:05, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Caroline Meeks < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:42 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>> >>>> *Clinic next door to a School* - A health clinic located right next >>>> door Sasha's school has a close partnership with the school. Many students >>>> are scene there so they decided to add a donated computer to their waiting >>>> room just for kids to use Sugar. This computer still has its hard-drive, >>>> but >>>> its dedicated for Sugar. Some of the basic sugar files are located on the >>>> hard drive and it is set up to allow students to log out rather then >>>> shutting down and restarting between each student. >>>> >>>> This is an very interesting idea. A hybrid harddrive usb solutions. >>>> From a technology perspective it would not be that hard to implement. When >>>> the computer boots from the hard drive it waits at a login prompt for the >>>> user to either login or insert a USB with the users /home directory. The >>>> current generation of linux distribution has excellent support for DBUS to >>>> communicate the status of hot swapped devices such as USBs. >>>> >>> > Great idea. We can also make the USB stick (assuming it has enough storage) > bootable, allowing for use wherever. > Yup exactly! 1GB sticks are plenty big enough for a bootable version and cost about $5 bulk. > > > >> *The Zoo*: .... >>>> >>>> This seems very similar to the clinic. >>> >>> >>> Interestingly when I discussed this with Marco the Zoo is hard use case. >>> Everywhere else we can assume the kids are all attending the same school >>> district, thus we can assume they are all running the same version of >>> Sugar. For the Zoo we might have kids from different towns all coming with >>> Sugar USBs but different versions. This might be harder to support. >>> >> > Well, assuming that the host has a few gigs of harddrive space, we can > suggest that the Zoo keeps muliple sugar versions (say... a copy of each one > that was backwards/forwards incompatable, a list we'd provide). > Ah!! Good idea! :) Even in this wonderful world where all the suburbs of this city are all using Sugar, there are only so many towns and thus a pretty finite number of versions that would be likely to show up at the local Zoo's class. Thanks! > > > -lf > > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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