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

[David Farning]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Maybe the issue here is that local labs have a much broader scope than
> the global Sugar Labs?

I agree completely.  Hopefully the local labs will focus in on a
particular area of the sugar ecosystem.  A testing lab, a deployment
support organization, educational content development.... As such they
will dive much deeper into a particular area then sl can.

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

Yes, but this discussion is about what services SL will provide for
the local labs.

Local labs can do whatever they want, upstream SL has to make hard
decisions about which 'things' we can 'afford' to support.

At this point in terms of infrastructure we can offer local labs:
email account, mailing lists, a instance of our existing wiki setup.
Anything else become to much work for our already overwork
infrastructure team.

This ends up being very similar to the deployment support issues we
are facing.  We are facing some hard issues about how we can _best_
use our limited resources to improve the entire Sugar ecosystem.

David

> 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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