[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Static services for Local Labs

[David Farning]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
> I see your point about CMS being overkill.
>
> And I also agree with you, the release cycle anchors everything.
>
> I for one consider it a bug, not a feature, that we have this division of
> channels of communication, as some of the aspects you relate should be
> feeding each other more.
+ 1

The differing methods are _not_ a feature, they are a natural reality
which we must accept and overcome.

> It is natural because of the different workflows, however I'd like to see
> some convergence.
>
> I'm studying the possible use of a social networking platform (pretty much
> deciding on http://pinaxproject.com/ ).
>
> If I can tweak it to fit our workflows (I'm working with local village
> visiting teachers to fit theirs) - in particular, i'm interested in
> including some sort of disconnected use (that is, for instance, getting them
> a "news/mailing list/new activities feed" from the social network with a USB
> monthly, and provide them with a way to "respond" - can be email - can be
> manually performed once online.
>
> This is likely also the tool that will help manage the Bolivia deployment
> (but we will likelly have some more connectivity in Bolivia).
>
> Looking forward to share more as things develop, looking for feedback /
> synergy.

Thanks, and keep push things back upstream.

david

> Sebastian
>
> 2009/2/11 David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>>
>> I tend to think that a cms is a bit of overkill for a young organization.
>>
>> One of my personal long term goal is to determine how we can clone SL
>> in Local SLs by reproducing the best practices of SL on a more local
>> scale.
>>
>> Developer side:
>> 1. The key component is the release cycle, ever thing else is anchored
>> around the release cycle.
>> 2. Dynamic communication through mailing lists and irc.
>> 3. Static communication through wiki and bug tracker.
>> Any thing else is overkill
>>
>> Educator side:
>> 1. Release cycle - cool new features, bug fixes
>> 2. Moodle - teachers know moodle
>>
>> david
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
>> <dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello all.
>> >
>> > I was thinking that maybe Sugar Labs could host, cms like drupal or
>> > joomla
>> > for Local Labs use,
>> > Would be this an overhead for our young infrastructure ?
>> > Is it better to Local Labs to have this kind of solutions sorted out
>> > locally
>> > ?
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>> > Rafael Ortiz
>> >
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