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

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Martin Abente <
> martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
> As an external service, Dropbox is not appropriate for a deployment, but I
> messed around several months ago with integrating the Journal with Dropbox.
> Since the setup is fairly complicated, I never suggested implementing it
> here.
>
> Because of the way Sugar indexes files, I used a USB drive so that Dropbox
> would show file names and extensions.  From the user's perspective, all they
> have to do is drop files onto a USB drive and everything else is automatic.
>
> Anyway, it's "proof of concept" of cloud storage with the Journal.  And of
> course, Dropbox is a bad idea unless you're talking about just a few users.
> There are FOSS alternatives out there that can live on the XS.
>
> Here's my writeup:
> http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4892.0
>
> Anna Schoolfield
> Birmingham
>
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FWIW, the $HOME/Docments patch could easily be modified to reference a
shared network mount.

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-May/031111.html

-walter

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Walter Bender
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