[IAEP] Camp Kit

[Caroline Meeks]

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> 4. Yesterday, Walter and Caroline noticed that a room full of people
> using Sugar's collaboration capabilities from a remote server on a
> conference centers network suboptimal.


Actually you miss understood me.  Collaboration worked fine I just didn't
understand what was going on until the drive home.

During the demo it was very odd, different people seemed to see different
people and I was confused as to what was happening.

The conference center/hotel was one of those places where to access the
internet you had to 1. Connect to the wireless hub. 2. Open a browser. 3.
Enter username and password.

This could be done on SoaS just fine.

But some people did not complete all three steps.

If you connected to a wireless hub in your neighborhood but didn't go throug
the process with Browse to connect to the internet then you just saw the
other people who also just connected to that wireless hub and didn't connect
to the internet.

Given the internet was incredibly slow, this may well have been a better
user experience for Sugar collaboration. I don't have any data about that.

If I were to do a 50 person Sugar workshop in a random hotel with bad
internet connectivity I would bring in a hub or two. Name them different
names.  And the workshop could collaborate without ever using the hotel's
slow internet.  WIN!

If I wanted users to see things on the internet I could info slice them
before hand.

And as an extra bonus no one could check their email during the workshop.

Note, Im not saying we did a serious test of the collaboration.I am just
saying that everything seemed to be fine at FOSSVT and that I am intreged by
the possiblities of local collaboration.

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> What would be the best way to set up a system like this?  As I go back
> over the list, it like like I am asking for a School Server on
> Steroids:)


No, I think  you are asking for a school server the way it is envisioned and
where it is getting to.  Now that we can have groups of people on Sugar
comfortably we are starting to understand why we want and need the school
server to work.

My last couple of visits to schools, and talks to educators at FOSS VT have
convinced me that having a local server and caching inside the school is
going provide a great deal of value to US Schools.

Caroline

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