[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

[Martin Abente]

Just to explain a little better this all fits into the "cloud journal"
Idea which in the very first version should basically work as a cloud
storage device (which should be placed in the XS IMHO). This will fix
MANY problems we encountered in the field regarding the limited
storage space, backups and virtual dogs eating homework.

I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I
take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started
sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion
before I get to that point.

The very basic requirement is: each children must have its private
"cloud volume", where they can drop their files in the same way they
interact with physical external storage devices.

On top of that we can do a lot of things that might be very useful for
teachers daily in the classrooms.

Before I start working on this, ill add multi-selection capabilities
to the journal so we can easily drop files from the local journal to
the "cloud" one. The implementation of the multi-selection feature may
or not follow the design we proposed on eduJAM's code sprint [1].

Questions? Ideas? Code? :)

1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Journal_NewUI#Mockups

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Martin Abente
<martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:47 PM,  <mokurai at earthtreasury.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 3:42 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>>> How can XOs copy files to/from their Journal with a server? We want
>>> the ability for teachers to easily make files available for children,
>>> and for children to upload to the server.
>>
>> This appears to be a problem for the Devel list. If the server can be made
>> to appear in the frame in much the same way that an inserted USB drive
>> appears, this task will be easy. Or I should say, a shared folder on the
>> server, perhaps one per class or one per child.
>>
>
> That is exactly the approach I plan to follow for next backup system
> in dextrose 3 OS build!
>
> In the previous dextrose versions we simply used dsd's scripts to
> rsync the datastore folder (raw). But we also think that emulating the
> volumes would work a lot better + multi-selection for journal entries
> which I plan to start working this week :)
>
>
>> I would recommend that you file a feature request on Trac.
>>
>>> It's not practical to install another server (so an XS is not an
>>> option). Most schools have a Windows-based server, so they could use
>>> CIFS files shares. Accessing this is doable through GNOME, but not in
>>> Sugar with the Journal.
>>>
>>> Sridhar Dhanapalan
>>> Technical Manager
>>> One Laptop per Child Australia
>>> M: +61 425 239 701
>>> E: sridhar at laptop.org.au
>>> A: G.P.O. Box 731
>>>      Sydney, NSW 2001
>>> W: www.laptop.org.au
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>>
>>
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