[OLPC-devel] Weekly work summary [7/12]

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 06:27 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 01:24 -0400, mharriso at student.umass.edu wrote:
> >  eBook External Data Sources
> >  http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=projects/soc-eds
> >  git://dev.laptop.org/projects/soc-eds
> > 
> > 
> > Status Update
> > Updated the Reader spec at http://dev.laptop.org/wiki/ReaderSpec .  Also see the
> > screenshot attached to the bottom of the page (gui5.png).  I was experimenting
> > with making some GUI mock-ups in PyGTK, but at this point, it is rather unclear
> > as to what I am/am not supposed to be doing with the GUI.
> 
> We might want to grab Bryan, Diana, and Walter at some soon point and
> start talking about the interaction design here.  Better sooner than
> later, I've found.
> 
> > I've started using the Twisted networking suite to start implementing a
> > client/server design for the reader.  The laptops will send search requests to
> > the server, which will then send search results and download/convert/send the
> > actual books to the laptops.
> 
> Read the wiki bits on the c/s model stuff; we have to be careful here
^^^^^^
This is somewhat unclear, it should be "I read the wiki bits..." rather
than taken as an imperative.

> too because you won't always be able to reach the eBook server.  We need
> to make sure the laptops are almost as functional away from school as
> they are at school.
> 
> At least for the sugar stuff, we have to allow kids to chat/voip with
> others they can see on the mesh around them and share stuff they have
> with each other without a central server.  I guess the point is that
> hitting a server is an _optimization_ for scalability/speed/storage,
> (like you've already described for the search function on the wiki).
> 
> But we can't use lack of central server availability as an excuse to
> hobble the software in significant ways at any future point.  We just
> need to keep that in mind.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> 
> 
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