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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Maybe the issue here is that local labs have a much broader scope than
the global Sugar Labs?

I see local labs having something to say about everything that the
global Sugar Labs does, but not the other way around.

Regards,

Tomeu

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 17:35, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
<dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your thoughts on this,
>
> I was thinking in a cms not for communication fork but for presentation
> fork.
>
> Anyway we are still too young, but for the future we might want to think in
> having this static solutions in place. (i.e when we have people that can
> work on maintaining the infrastructure needed etc).
>
>
> Rafael Ortiz
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:15 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Sebastian Silva
>> Laboratorios FuenteLibre
>> http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/
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