[Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

[David Farning]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:10 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> Then don't be!  OLPC has spent years arguing about how various
>> solution will _not_ work.  How about giving the students a chance to
>> test their theories and develop an implementation.
>
> David -- the proposal did _not_ have a theory of how it would work. It
> did not acknowledge scarcity of bandwidth as a problem.
>
> Now Geza is starting to suggest mechanisms to limit the number of
> users. That is a lot more reasonable. A bit of analysis of the actual
> bw required per-stream, and how that would work in a wireless env
> would show some very surprising things [*] that IMO change the model
> completely.
>
> But the bubble needed bursting. We don't have infinite memory, cpu, or
> storage. And damn we have limited spectrum!
>
> * - for example. How does the bw consumption of streaming look if you
> are using infra mode (with a conventional AP) and the stream server is
> on an XO? What would be the impact of running a reflector on a machine
> that has a wired connection to the AP (ie: the XS)? What would the
> impact be of running the stream from a wired connection to the AP
> directly?
>
>> implementation don't work, they have still learned and Sugar Labs (and
>> OLPC) has still made progress.
>
> I think a bit more serious thinking up front that leads to success...
> hey, I'm so old fashioned man. I like to succeed, and I like GSoC
> students to succeed :-)

Maybe with a little thinking up front it would be easier to see how
community building works and why OLPC does not have any GSOC students
this year.

Speaking or success should we compare the relative growth rates OLPC
vs SL community building.

david

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