[Sugar-devel] offline a.sl.o

Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ardito at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 20:46:43 EST 2012


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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