[Sugar-devel] Local static page, final call for edits (Re: [RELEASE] Browse-106)

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Eben Eliason <eben at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Martin Langhoff
>> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>> My understanding is that we are going to be interested in providing
>>>> other sugar-specific services than collaboration in a server, like
>>>> backups.
>>>
>>> Yes - there's a lot more than collaboration on the XS. Backups,
>>> internet access, upgrades, lots of stuff. Printing, if the GSoC
>>> proposal is a winner. All of that makes for a very long link name ;-)
>>
>> Fair enough
>>
>>> ...'School' is shorter...
>>
>> Yes, but it's still a misnomer. Nothing about this server ties it to a
>> school, right? Maybe it's one we're OK with, but I want to make sure
>> that it actually makes sense in most contexts if we're going to use
>> it.
>>
>
> School, on a metaphorical level, is a place where learning happens,
> where children go every day, form a group, community, play, exchange,
> wrestle, eat, interact, etc. So, metaphorically, to me, school is a
> central focal point. School is also probably a more commonly
> understood term in many cultures than say, collaboration...I can't
> think of the equivalent of collaboration in Hindi. So maybe we drop
> the "server" part and simply call it school?

Yeah, that sounds good to me.

Eben


> --
> Sameer
>
>> Perhaps it's more important to deal with the fallback case than to
>> name it perfectly, so that we can indicate what it means to those who
>> don't have access to one.
>>
>> Eben
>>
>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> m
>>>
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