[Sugar-devel] Dropbox on the XO

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi Christoph,
We're having a similar use case in Peru at the moment. Artists from 
Neokinok.tv are recording with the children of the Shippibo and Aymara 
native communities a documentary using XOs and Record. They needed a way 
to copy the footage as well as other content into a central server. So I 
have started working with them on using and adapting 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/FileShare.

We've run into some constraints like:

- Having to share one file by one.
     (I've made a patch to share all "favorites" at once)
http://git.sugarlabs.org/file-share-activity
     With a populated journal this crashes, still debugging.

- The server script - we'd like it to provide feedback of successful 
operations and also to extract uploaded files into a regular directory 
(instead of .xoj journal files). For use with a regular linux desktop 
for editing video and material.

- All children should have permission to upload to server

- When testing on localhost the server errors (but doesnt seem to fail) 
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2732

When I'm finished writing these patches maybe the activity will be 
closer to useful for your scenario as well.
Let me know if you'd like me to ping you for testing it.

I'm copying Justin who is the author.

BTW they'll be streaming live today at 7pm EST
http://experimentaltv.org/xotv
or directly http://stream.neokinok.tv:8000/xotv.ogg

Cheers!
Sebastian

El 01/04/11 07:01, Christoph Derndorfer escribió:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:31 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org 
> <mailto:quozl at laptop.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:02:46PM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>     > James suggested Sugar Commander to copy the files from the dropbox
>     > folder into the Journal, ...
>
>     Not me, probably Other James.
>
>
> Yes, sorry, it was James Simmons and I only realized now that his 
> message didn't go to the list...
>
>     > And while I agree that "sugar already has many sharing features" I
>     > don't think they're nearly powerful and flexible enough (which
>     reminds
>     > of seeing the expression on Richard Smith's face when I showed him
>     > this photo from Peru -
>     >
>     http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/peru/peruvian_pupils_ingenious_method_for_copying_songs.html
>     > - which was simply priceless;-).
>
>     Very sad.
>
>
> Not sure why people think it's sad. To me it really is ingenious and I 
> loved how these pupils worked around the software limitations to 
> achieve what they wanted.
>
>     > Have you actually used the feature that sends a journal entry
>     from one laptop to another over wireless?  'Cause if you haven't used
>     it, then perhaps you should retract your opinion until you've had a go
>     at it.  There's no point whinging about software written years ago.
>
>
> Sorry if I touched a soft spot here! ;-)
>
> On a more serious note I saw that my previous e-mail should read 
> "teacher's normal laptop" rather than "teacher's XO" since the main 
> idea is still to make it easy to print children's works.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> -- 
> Christoph Derndorfer
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