[Sugar-devel] Dropbox on the XO

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hi Sebastian,
hi James,

thanks a lot for your message.

I'd definitely love to look at your work when it's done as it really does
sounds like a possible solution for the scenario we're looking at.

Oh, and I can't wait to see the Neokinok.tv footage:-)

Saludos,
Christoph

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at somosazucar.org>wrote:

>  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> 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
>
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>
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