<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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.</blockquote><div> 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. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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:)</blockquote><div> 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 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> david <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > - Jonas > > - -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: <a href="http://dr.jones.dk/" target="_blank">http://dr.jones.dk/</a> > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAknhEYYACgkQn7DbMsAkQLi6KQCeMOkIeojg2/4PYQnb7Qhy+8qO > AtUAn1qAdicnYUoFIF1pl4Slg/Ol8z5M > =7TlN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div></div></blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax