[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Transfer to many

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> El 15/11/11 14:06, Gonzalo Odiard escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>> One problem with transfer to many, is, when the users do not have a
>>>>> school
>>>>> server, and use the ad-hoc networks,
>>>>> usually they group the kids in 3 groups and the teacher will need send
>>>>> to
>>>>> all in one group, check all have received,
>>>>> go to the next group send to all, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, what is the issue they are facing. Do you mean the Ad-hoc network
>>>> is not capable of sending that many files at once?
>>>
>>> Yes, and then the use will be more difficult to the teacher, than sharing
>>> a file and enable the kids to download it.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity: Do we have any data or half-decent estimates on
>> what rough percentage of current Sugar users are working in ad-hoc mode vs.
>> infrastructure mode?
>> That could help inform this decision, especially in terms of whether we
>> might need one or two different ways to do this (e.g. trying to send the
>> files sequentially vs. in parallel while in ad-hoc mode might be an option).
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>>
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> If anyone is interested, and I wont clutter the post by diverting too much
> here from what looks to be an elegant solution in the making,  Please just
> ping me off-list if you want to see the specifics; but briefly here's our
> q&d solution where the only technology oniste is:  XO 1.0's, hardly
> any power, and a DHCP enabled wireless access point, and some pre-populated
> SD cards with bunches of books.
>  :
> Especially now with the new sugar ability to see items in the documents
> folder, this is a pretty simple setup where the teacher is running pure-ftpd
> (scripted install),  and serves up his/her SD card.   The student users just
> ftp client in to get the docs they want and the download process stores them
> in their documents folder.  We use this to refresh the ebooks on the student
> XO's so that they can read in a disconnected environment via sugar READ. We
> do this because sometimes they get deleted, sometimes they get corrupted,
> and this lets them get what they need and not have to fill up all of their
> available space with all the books, just the ones they need at the
> moment. Once on the desired XO's, all of the other collabortive
> functionality is there, of course.  It's no XS server, and it isnt an
> elegant collabortive or multi-cast distribution network, but ...
>

+1 to keeping it simple!!

-walter

> Cheers
>
> KG
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>>>
>>> Gonzalo
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>>>>
>>>> Or is it the representation of the file transfers in the sugar UI? For
>>>> the latter the idea is to adjust the file transfer notification being only
>>>> one item in the activity tray containing all the notifications.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>   Simon
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>> Christoph Derndorfer
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