notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:06 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com
<rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 7:20 AM, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
>
>> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison
>>>>> <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
>> ...
>>>> 3) "How do I share files to/from an XO?"  "I just did this work
>>>> but now
>>>> where is the resultant file?"  Interface with the outside world.
>>>
>>> How could we better define the "outside world"? Do you think we could
>>> get a list of the main use cases when taking data out of XO systems?
>>
>> My $0.02 (aka. "wild guess") is that the following three use cases
>> cover
>> 90+% of all of them:
>>
>> 1. files to and from a FAT-formatted USB stick
>> 2. files to and from a wifi SMB share
>> 3. email attachments in and out
>
> Another use case I have seen is:
> 4. files to and from a host system using a ssh connection and  scp.
> (could this be put in an activity wrapper?)
> Also some G1G1 users, use scripts to extract data from the data store.

The re-envisioned datastore should make this form of interaction
possible via traditional means, without having to use "convenience
scripts" to move things into and out of the "Journal".  It's indeed a
good use case.

- Eben


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