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

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Dennis Nguyen
<denniskdnguyen at alumni.duke.edu> wrote:
> I work with a volunteer project launched about a year ago that is
> working on developing a server package for education in the developing

Very interesting. Welcome to the list and hope you get a chance to meet Sameer!

Some questions - after an incomplete read of the RACHEL  website:

 - The content guidelines hint that the content must be able to be
served from a 'dumb' server (you are proposing wikis and similar are
included in a deployment but separate from content). This is good, and
means OLPC XS can re-use your content...

 - How do you build indexes and/or search across the content?

 - It mentions 'Wikipedia'.
   = Do you include all languages? The local language? Local lang +
Simple English? Some other variation?
   = Is anyone "curating" the wikipedia snapshots? OLPC has found that
after taking a 'wikislice' you _really_ want to spot-check all the
content, as you are bound to have some vandalism and inappropriate
content there (very small percentage, but when you capture a
large-enough slice...)
   = Which wikislice tool are you using?

 - Languages? Localisation?

 - Any consideration to encourage Gnash-compatible Flash?

 - Do you package your content in any way? If the school server has a
limited connection to the internet, can it download an update to the
content that is just delta?

Hope I haven't scared you with the storm of questions.

cheers,



m
-- 
 martin.langhoff at gmail.com
 martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff