<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">This is where things get fun and interesting!</p>
<p dir="ltr">We have tried to set Pathagar, Internet-in-a-Box, and other services up for community success on XSCE:<br>
1. Loosely coupled -- The plugin structure means that Pathagar and IIAB need to know very little about XSCE and nothing about each other.<br>
2. COTS -- Commercial off-the-shelf. Both projects are primarily developed outside of the XSCE project by independent groups. This reduces the development and maintenance on XSCE community members.<br>
3. Complementary -- In this phase it appears that IIAB excels at 'the scrape.' IIAB collects large amounts of data from the wild internet and makes it available offline. The Pathagar projects looks like it will focus on tightly curated collections for specific deployments.<br>
4. Competitive -- Even though they start by working on opposite ends of problem space, they overlap.</p><p dir="ltr">Hopefully, by building on these principles we can nurture/encourage both project to thrive on their own and as components of XSCE.</p>
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<div>I'm curious how Pathagar may be
applicable to our Internet-in-a-Box (<a href="http://internet-in-a-box.org" target="_blank">http://internet-in-a-box.org</a>).<br>
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Can it scale to the 40,000 epub books in Project Gutenberg?<br>
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thanks,<br>
Braddock Gaskill<br>
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On 06/04/2013 01:46 PM, David Farning wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">One of the additions to XSCE 0.3 is the ability to
add services to XSCE without having an intimate knowledge of the
entire server. Our first real test of this is the inclusion of
Pathagar as a bookserver.<br clear="all">
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<div>For the last three releases the XSCE project has
focused on the basics:</div>
<div>1. Network connectivity within the classroom.</div>
<div>2. Internet access were available.</div>
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3. Modular structure.</div>
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<div>This has been the boring framework stuff which
will enable the fun user facing stuff like Pathagar to work.</div>
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<div>Pathagar is a simple bookserver. In this case,
simple means rugged and maintainable. Pathagar has three
purposes; browse, search and download digital books from a
server.</div>
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<div>In the basic use case a librarian or curator
places digital books in a directory on the server. Students
can then browse, search and download from their web browser or
bookreader software.</div>
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<div>Technically, most of the pieces are in place:</div>
<div>1. I believe the XSCE needs a bit more work handle
external storage. (Not barfing if the USB connection is
bumped.)</div>
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2. Pathagar is fully functional.</div>
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<div>The remaining steps will be to:</div>
<div>1. Validate Fedora packaging.</div>
<div>2. Create the glue code to add Pathagar to XSCE is
a plugin.</div>
<div>3. Validate loosely coordinated release.</div>
<div>4. Test, test, test. </div>
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<div>Technically this seems pretty straight forward.
The more open ended issues is curating content. A book server
with no books is as useful as school server which doesn't
serve.</div>
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-- <br>
David Farning<br>
Activity Central: <a href="http://www.activitycentral.com" target="_blank">http://www.activitycentral.com</a>
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