On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Matthew Jadud wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:14, Karl R. Wurst <karl.wu...@worcester.edu> wrote: >> One question - in reading the HOWTO, it says we need computers for the >> students. Is that true? I was expecting that they will bring laptops. >> Let me know if I need to change to a room with computers. > > I know from my own experience that having machines that you know will > "just work" is a nice thing. That is, if you're able to provide > machines that the participants can > > 1. Check out Firefox onto > 2. Build > 3. Experiment > > without having to use their own machines, that could be a win. > However, it might be that setting up one's own build environment is an > important part of the process. I didn't feel it was a critical part, > but I might be missing something here. > > Ah. I'm going to take that back. /me does a 180, as they say... > > It was *critical* that we could go off and work on things in the > evening. Providing machines makes that problematic. So, don't do that. > They should bring a laptop that they can use for this work. Do provide > wireless for the participants wherever they are staying. Make sure that > "just works." > > (I haven't read all the POSSE documentation, so that may already be in > there...) > > Contributing his 1p or 2c, depending on your currency of choice...
I wonder if this might be a reason to work on server-based projects instead of client-based projects. It would be trivial for us to throw EC2 instances at this problem, and then the only thing that anyone needs is an ssh client. I mean, I suppose you could build Firefox on an EC2 system and then run remote desktop or something... --g -- Educational materials should be high-quality, collaborative, and free. Visit http://opensource.com/education and join the conversation. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
