[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:42:58PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>Scott and Michael raised the question of why we didn't build it as a .xo 
>only project with no need for server. I explained the constraints of 
>time and image in Uruguay and they understood that.
>
>There were less convinced that it should be a web app instead of built 
>in to Write but on further discussion I think they understood that the 
>dynamic nature of EduBlog (that teachers can change and control where 
>the students post to and what they see e.g. "frog blog") makes it hard 
>to build in to Write.

I was happy to see that you brought your project so far so quickly and I
was pleased that you were able to use technologies (e.g. Moodle)
familiar to the people you recruited to assist you; however, I felt very
strongly that the architecture you chose was alien to the
'no-server-needed-but-we'll-use-one-if-it's-available' architecture
underlying the XO (and stated most clearly in Scott's "Network
Principles" document).

Michael