[Sugar-devel] offline a.sl.o

[Martin Abente]

@sameer: What features (exactly) do you need from ASLO?

IE, in Paraguay we just needed to provide a static repo of activities to
feed the sugar updater. And we used this
http://git.sugarlabs.org/dx-activities-server

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Aleksey,
> At the risk of asking a stupid question, what is the Sugar Network
> functionality you are talking about?
>
> Thanks.
> Gerald
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:20:23PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Generally speaking, people (students and teachers) from Peruvian
>> one-teachers offline schools might need the same "offline email".
>> But the approach that was take for Sugar Network is not trying to create
>> full featured/partial replacement of online environments (e.g., email,
>> web, wikipedia, feedback reporting system, etc) but create one
>> solid/robust system (that is capable for offline) with features:
>>
>> * content sharing (both ways, not only from deployers to deployments)
>> * having reliable feedback from the field, i.e., fail reports, usage
>>   statistics, questions
>> * and social activity regarding the content in general (review, comments,
>> etc)
>>
>> So, there is no direct offline-email analogy. But in my mind, designed
>> Sugar Network functionality makes offline-email less needed (and not
>> needed at all if we are talking about environments like rural schools
>> with no any IT skilled people).
>>
>> --
>> Aleksey
>>
>
>
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