[Server-devel] gathering use cases

[Chris Leonard]

Sameer,

You should talk to SomosAzucar and Aleksey Lim about the use case for
Sugar Network being developed for a pilot in LimaNorte.

cjl

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> There are several use cases that may or may not get addressed when designing
> a particular software stack to address a requirement.
>
> The XS 0.7 is designed to be a single image install and comes with Moodle.
> Given that I work with Moodle everyday, I see the pros and cons of it being
> central on the XS. I am in fact fairly happy with its current design, but
> also realize that it was built for a specific use case or three that OLPC
> needed at the time.
>
> There is also an effort (currently dubbed XS Community Edition) that is
> attempting to address certain other use cases where Moodle and other
> services could possibly become optional. We saw this at the OLPC SF
> Community Summit. I hope it will grow up to be the next XS (but that's
> another thread).
>
> My concern is that perhaps, if we don't do our homework right, we will once
> again build something that will fail to address a use case or two. Can one
> design address all use cases? Maybe not. But it's good to know what those
> use cases are.
>
> To this end, I would like to collect data on different possible use cases
> from all kinds of deployments. I have a student (cc'd) who is working on
> this project currently. She will gather data from various deployments
> (suitcase, boutique, MoE etc) as much as possible (with the cooperation of
> projects, of course) and write a report on what we see out there. We'll
> gladly make the report available once it is done.
>
> Is this useful?
>
> What should the scope be? Initially I had thought of the server side, but
> that may be limiting. What should we gather?
> Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access,
> language, sugar version, ...
>
> Feedback?
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
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