[Sugar-devel] can this be duplicated by FLOSS? is this similar to Sugar Network?

[Kevin Mark]

Hi OLPC SG and Sugar-Devel Folks,
This[0] is an interesting situation that these Australian schools find
themselves in. Many of the mentioned services found on the Wikipedia page sound
like available technologies from FLOSS that need a bit of integration to
provide a similar unified project. I don't know the full details and have not
expierenced the Sugar Network or the XS in use but are those products partial
solutions to this? (eg. Moodle, schooltools, etc.) Could one be developed to
meet most of the Ultranet goals?

If these folks had invested in FLOSS solutions funded by a government, it might
have had an initial upfront cost that was more, and required maintaince but
would not be a product that could cancelled in the way a 3rd party project like
this was and would have allowed the users to export their existing
metadata/data rather than lose valuable content and invested time. Not to
mention the possible volunteer contribution and use by other school.
-K
[0] http://danielpocock.com/wrong-cloud-nec-ultranet-victoria