Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

[Ivan Krstić]

On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
> We really need the incremental backup feature. That is a core
> requirement that came up many times in last week's OLPC Learning
> Conference.

I'll see about finishing it up for you, then. Please ping me from time  
to time to make sure this doesn't drop off my radar.

> But how do you archive personal files once they exceed local
> storage? And how would you browse that archive?

This auto-archival (called 'smart dropoff') will also make its debut  
in the new datastore. We will not be able to provide another solution  
before then, so like with project and bulletin board support: if you  
need something for April, you'll unfortunately have to roll it  
yourself. Note that these are pretty hard problems and -- especially  
in the absence of relevant expertise -- you're likely to frustrate  
yourself and not make too much progress unless you're willing to very  
narrowly redefine the problem in terms of a tiny set of core features  
and then attempt to build those and no others.

The new datastore should be in (pre-)alpha by April, but the Journal  
will not yet be able to use it.

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