Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

[Bryan Berry]

Awesome, great answers like this is why I sent out the e-mail. 

We really need the incremental backup feature. That is a core
requirement that came up many times in last week's OLPC Learning
Conference. But how do you archive personal files once they exceed local
storage? And how would you browse that archive? 

We were looking at WebDav because Sulo has some experience w/ it. We
aren't linux gurus. We are doing the best w/ our limited expertise to
make this happen.

Regarding the Journal's support for projects and bulletin boards, our
pilot starts in early April so we need get something working very soon.

thanks for your quick response
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:04 +0100, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
> > We are looking to use WebDav to back up the individual student's home
> > folder to the school server.
> 
> Why on earth WebDAV? Incidentally, I had an almost-finished  
> incremental backup according to this spec:
> 
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_backup_restore>
> 
> and then got pulled away to deal with some burning issues before  
> actually finishing it. If you consider this a core requirement, I  
> could see about getting it out the door for you.
> 
> > How do we store team projects for later use? Perhaps the Journal will
> > allow us to do this in the future but I have the impression that it is
> > still under heavy development. Perhaps, the journal already handles  
> > this
> > well and I am simply misinformed. Please disabuse me of any false
> > notions.
> 
> The 'projects/bulletin boards' idea is core to the new datastore which  
> is expected to land into joyride as soon as update.2 leaves the door  
> for a cycle of testing and integration, and then become a user-facing  
> feature in update.3, or in about half a year.
> 
> >     1. Does the School Identity Manager support LDAP? LDAP support is
> >        essential for integrating existing content management systems  
> > w/
> >        the School Server.
> 
> The identity manager is a hack. It needs to be rewritten.
> 
> >     2. How do students share team projects for later use?
> 
> See my answer above re: bulletin boards.
> 
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> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
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