[Sugar-devel] offline a.sl.o

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

This is very interesting.

I have a kind of related question. Has there been any work done for a
non-internet based email server (and XO based client)?
I know that Tony Anderson (now in Rwanda) is working in a school with no
internet access, but with the need for email-type communication.

Thanks.
Gerald


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:04:36PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
> > Has anyone looked into running an offline copy of
> > activities.sugarlabs.orgon a server that isn't on the Internet (a la
> > XS)?
>
> To run ASLO copy on a standalone server, you need to install ASLO/AMO
> php application (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Devel
> but instructions might be outdated) and clone MySQL data with activity
> files (~9G). Some time ago, SL used 2nd ASLO node, but it used the same
> MySQL and files storage.
>
> There is the same need in "ASLO" on a school server in the field. But
> in my mind, trying to adapt ASLO/AMO to this scheme is an overkill.
> The real environments might assume lack of maintaining or restricted
> school servers (for example XO laptops in offline schools), i.e.,
> Apache+MySQL+PHP+ASLO/AMO is a real misuse.
>
> In this regard, Sugar Network[1] was initiated a ~year ago, i.e.,
> content sharing system (in contrast to ASLO, SN will provide
> non-software content like books or Journal objects). Sugar Network
> functionality is explicitly split into server side and client
> application(s). Server side is capable for running even on XO laptops
> (XO-1.5 is preferable) in pure offline case (e.g. one-teacher schools in
> Peru when people have only XO laptops) with further offline
> synchronization[2]. Clients might be any applications that use REStful
> API provided by Sugar Network node (master server like ASLO or any
> distributed node). For now there are two clients[3] written as a
> lightweight Web application and one that is pure JS application.
>
> The centralized scheme (like ASLO) is available right now[3] (it is
> being assumed to be used in Peruvian pilot). The offline model is
> in progress and should be ready, in some stage, during this year.
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Platform/Sneakernet
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network#Try_it
>
> --
> Aleksey
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