[sugar] USB Based Community Access - What could work technically?

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.

In all of this discussion of Sugar on a USB, it's not clear what part
of the taxonomy from here:

http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy

is being discussed.  Do the activities (fructose/honey) always come
from the user's flash drive?  If not, you will have many more
versioning issues.  And you really start to have issues if advanced
students want to write/modify activities.   If they do,  then you seem
to be talking about mounting /home/olpc (or equivalent) from the flash
drive in many of the scenarios mentioned.

Bill Bogstad