[Server-devel] testing out new packages on top of school server images

[Kapil Thangavelu]

hi folks

i just wanted to confirm that olpc works fine with plone, in terms of  
rendering speed. i'm out at a regional free software conference in  
argentina
http://jornadas.grulic.org.ar/7/ for the next two weeks. i think if plone  
is acceptable as a solution, the next step would be to send out a call for  
volunteers on the plone developers lists.

-kapil

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:58:25 -0300, Toby Knudsen <tobyknudsen at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> It was a pleasure speaking with Nate, Kapil, Brent and others at the
> Plone Sprint last Friday.  I'd certainly attend another event that
> they organized.  I've been confirming a couple things that we
> discussed and being distracted by summer phenomenon.
>
> Half of our questions and requirements were technical, but those that
> are of a pedagogical nature are equally important to courseware and
> need to be addressed.  Here's what I think we agreed upon:
>
> - Hardware requirements.  Will the OLPC laptop be able to display all
> the Plone javascript in an acceptable manner?  Are the client-side
> requirements too much?  Perhaps Kapil can recommend a series of Plone
> actions to test on the internet.
>
> - Educational/pedagogical requirements.   How are teachers going to
> use write or specify courseware?  What are best guidelines or rules
> for those writing courseware.  I've looked at the OLPC educational
> wiki and don't see that this is a policy or convention in place yet.
> Any suggestions?  similarly:
>
> - Migrate or adopt available courseware distributions?  What are the
> available conventions and what is optimal?  Is MIT OCW a good example
> or the best one to follow?
>
> - Packages.  Should Zope/Plone and dependencies be in the core OLPC
> server distribution?  What about adding content/courseware after it is
> in place?  Are there any risks to adding content and how can we
> mitigate these risks?
>
> Toby
>
>
> On 7/19/07, Toby Knudsen <tobyknudsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi SJ,
>>
>> > There has been some discussion of a two-step school server setup,
>>
>> It would be great to hear what requirements that inspired this
>> discussion.  This helps to avoid the phenomenon of qualifying the
>> technical issue but missing the actual solution to peoples' needs.
>>
>> > an installer that sets up core software on a new disk, and a set of
>> additional software that gets built on top of this (which might change
>> by region).  the latter may need its own package/project.
>>
>> I feel ready.
>>
>> > Is there a machine where people who want to test out additional  
>> software
>> can see what works?
>>
>> VMware or Xen virtualization means never having to ask if there's a
>> machine available.  Userspace VMware has been working fine for me.
>>
>> Let me know if I may be of any assistance with this.
>>
>> Toby
>>
>> [responding to mail list digest, may display quite right.]
>>