[Server-devel] RACHEL, another developing world server project, would like to have a discussion with XS

[Norberto Mujica]

Awesome.
We have the OLPC collections incorporated into our repository now, so
we can include all or some of them to some RACHEL deployments. (You
can see them in our rachel online content sample at
http://rachel.worldpossible.org/ , under the 'OLPC Educational
Packages' heading.)
Definitely, I can pack content in the OLPC zipped format at any time.
The only caveat is that some of the content nodes are very large in
size, so it may not be feasible for your laptop installations. For
instance our MIT courseware is about 200GB, with thousands of media
files and more than half a million individual files.
For other content, do you know what is your max practical package size?

Cheers
norberto


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Norberto Mujica <nmujica at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I took a quick look at the content you guys have already packaged as
>> collections and available at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library_grid
>> It looks great, and it seems you guys are putting lots of efforts on
>> good content gathering.
>
> Cool! It's all volunteers around OLPC :-)
>
>> Would you mind if we pilot a copy of some of this content in our
>> RACHEL repository?
>
> It's all licensed in a way that you can redistribute without asking
> for permission.
>
>> If that is the case we can show you how it would look in one of our
>> repositories, and I think we can start sharing content as well as
>
> I am more interested in your content than in your repository at this
> time :-) If you can package things in a way OLPC can use...
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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