Aleksey,<div>At the risk of asking a stupid question, what is the Sugar Network functionality you are talking about? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.<br>Gerald</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Aleksey Lim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alsroot@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">alsroot@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:20:23PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:<br>
> This is very interesting.<br>
><br>
> I have a kind of related question. Has there been any work done for a<br>
> non-internet based email server (and XO based client)?<br>
> I know that Tony Anderson (now in Rwanda) is working in a school with no<br>
> internet access, but with the need for email-type communication.<br>
<br>
</div>Generally speaking, people (students and teachers) from Peruvian<br>
one-teachers offline schools might need the same "offline email".<br>
But the approach that was take for Sugar Network is not trying to create<br>
full featured/partial replacement of online environments (e.g., email,<br>
web, wikipedia, feedback reporting system, etc) but create one<br>
solid/robust system (that is capable for offline) with features:<br>
<br>
* content sharing (both ways, not only from deployers to deployments)<br>
* having reliable feedback from the field, i.e., fail reports, usage<br>
statistics, questions<br>
* and social activity regarding the content in general (review, comments, etc)<br>
<br>
So, there is no direct offline-email analogy. But in my mind, designed<br>
Sugar Network functionality makes offline-email less needed (and not<br>
needed at all if we are talking about environments like rural schools<br>
with no any IT skilled people).<br>
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Aleksey<br>
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